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Open Your Closets and Start Your Collecting!

Happy Monday everyone! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and that you're ready to launch yourself into the first official week of Suit Up RI.  The drive starts today and will be running through the third week of April.  If your organization hasn't already joined the effort the good news is that there is still time.  E-mail suitupri@citypersonnel.net for more details. If you are already participating then thank you and good luck! 

Suit Up Rhode Island

City Personnel is proud to announce the first annual ‘Suit Up, RI!™’ initiative.

City Personnel, a boutique recruitment firm in Providence, in conjunction with the Clothing Collaborative will be running a professional clothing drive beginning April 2nd and running through April 20th. The Suit Up RI initiative will be challenging companies throughout Rhode Island and Southern Massachusetts to collect the most articles of professional clothing and accessories.  All of the collected pieces will be donated to the Clothing Collaborative’s closets to help the disadvantaged population of RI to find employment and build self-esteem. It’s widely known that Rhode Island has been battling one of the worst unemployment rates in the country since its peak at 11.9% in January, 2010 (U.S. Department of Labor Statistics).  Presently the unemployment rate in RI is only down to 11%. Suit Up RI hopes to slash this number even further. City Personnel has set a personal goal of 5,000 pieces of clothing for this drive, let’s see what this state can do when we join forces and really work together!  For additional information or if you want to get involved please contact either Brittany Bert or Kerri Thornsbury at 401.331.2311 or by e-mail at suitupri@citypersonnel.net.

Elaine's Success

Today is a good day because as I write this one of our new and terrific candidates is starting at the office of a new, terrific client.  Elaine moved to RI this past weekend and one of her first stops on Monday was our office.  As luck would have it the previous Friday afternoon we received a temp-perm position in Elaine's field.  After speaking with her and her references we felt she would be a terrific fit in this particular position. With that in mind we set up an interview with the client on Tuesday.

Yesterday afternoon I was thrilled to receive a call offering Elaine, not the temp-perm position, but a permanent one starting this morning.  Way to go Elaine, we couldn’t be happier for you!

Mark the Calendar, RIC Job Fair!

City Personnel wil be present at Rhode Island College's March Job & Internship Fair.  More details will follow closer to the event, but if you're an employer or potential employee who will also be in attendence please stop by and say hi! 

New Year, New Look

Happy New Year everyone and welcome to the brand new City Personnel website. We've had this in the works for a while and are thrilled that we were able to launch it to kick off 2012.  What do you think of our new look? We would love to hear all your feedback so we can add any information you feel is missing or change anything that you find repetitive. After all it is all about you!

To all our clients out there watch your email over the next two weeks. We'll be sending out a celebratory offer to help you get through tax season!