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Robert Williams
Texas Veterans Commission
Veterans Employment Representative
McKinney Workforce Center
972-542-3381 ext 3108
 robert.williams@tvc.state.tx.us  
Veronica Carnucci
Texas Veterans Commission
Veterans Employment Representative
 McKinney Workforce Center
 972-542-3381 ext 3109
veronica.carnucci@tvc.state.tx.us
 

McKinney Workforce Center April/May 2012

Veterans Newsletter

April/May 2012 Special Events

Disclaimer: Please visit each function website for additional

information regarding the specific event.

Dallas Career Fair/ Hire Live

Tuesday, April 3rd

9:00 am - 12:30 pm

Embassy Suites Dallas - Near the Galleria

14021 Noel Road

Dallas, TX 75240

http://www.hirelive.com/js_dallas.html

Veterans Career Fair

When: Wed, April 4, 10am – 2pm

Where: Frisco Discover Center, 8004 N. Dallas Pkwy, Frisco, TX 75034

Description: The Frisco Veterans Advisory Committee in conjunction with its City Partners, is

hosting a Veterans only Career Fair. Bring plenty of resumes and be prepared to interview

Dallas Career Fair

Thursday

April 12, 2012

10:30 AM - 2:00 PM

Doubletree Hotel

2015 Market Center Blvd

Dallas, TX 75207

http://choicecareerfairs.com/career-fairs/event/dallas-career-fair-04122012/

Nursing & Healthcare Career Expo

Double Tree Dallas/Near the Galleria

Monday April 16, 2012

10:00am – 3:00pm

4099 Valley View Lane

Dallas, Texas 75244

972-385-9000 (Hotel number)

http://www.expoexpertsllc.com/041612-dallas-heal.html

Dallas North Career Fair by National Career Fairs

When: Wed, April 18, 11am – 2pm

Where: Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Plano East, 700 Central Parkway East, Plano, TX

Description: for more info: http://www.nationalcareerfairs.com/career_fairs/details/TX/DallasNorth/April/18/2012/ 

April 19 Engineering Virtual Career Fair

Outstanding way to meet with engineers from all over the country in one day

In partnership with UBM Electronics

Over 3,000 engineers already registered

www.engcareerfair.com

Open to Civilians & Veterans

If you have not had the chance to experience Milicruit yet, here is a short video on how it works

http://www.screencast.com/t/IcnWdSia

Dallas Job Fair presented by The Potters House, Inc.

When: Sat, April 21, 10am – 3pm

Where: Potter’s House of Dallas, 6777 W. Kiest Blvd. Dallas, TX 75236

Description: For more info: Attn. Pastor Ronnie Guynes info@megacaremissions.org

The Diversity Job Fair of Dallas

Catalyst Career Group

Embassy Suites Dallas- DFW International Airport South

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

4650 West Airport Freeway

Irving, TX 75062

10:00AM - 1:00PM

CONTACT INFORMATION:

info@catalystcareergroup.com

815.308.5426

http://www.catalystcareergroup.com/jobfair_details.cfm?jfid=599

National Guard & Reservist Job Fair

When: Thu, April 26, 10am – 2pm

Where: Grand Prairie Armed Forces Reserve Center, 397 Armed Forces Dr. BLDG 8300, Grand

Prairie, Texas 75051

Description: This venue is supported by employers committed to hiring the “citizen soldier” –

the Guard & Reservist. There will be general orientation to employment services for the Guard &

Reservist, Resume building, and Interview training.

Contact: Catalina Benson Email: katty.benson@jcep.info Phone: (512) 782-7461

Dallas/Richardson, TX (Tech/Eng/Sec Clearance)

05/01/2012 11:00 AM ~ 05/01/2012 03:00 PM

Richardson Civic Center

411 West Arapaho Road

Richardson, 75080

http://www.targetedjobfairs.com/tjf/events/detail.jsp?eventid=3827

Dallas Career Fair

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

11:00 AM to 2:00 PM

Park Inn by Radisson - Dallas Love Field

1241 West Mockingbird Lane

Dallas, TX 75247

http://www.nationalcareerfairs.com/career_fairs/details/TX/Dallas/May/15/2012/

Diversity Job Fair

Thursday May 17, 2012

The Westin Dallas Fort Worth Airport

4545 W John Carpenter Freeway

Irving, TX 75063

10AM to 2PM

For more information, please contact DiversityJobFairs.Com (516)932-0997

http://www.diversityjobfairs.com/Jobfairs/job-fair-in-dallas-on-may-17-2012-at-The-Westin-Dallas-Fort-Worth-Airport.asp

Orion International Military Hiring Conference

Sunday, May 20, 2012 - Monday, May 21, 2012

8:00:00 AM - 5:00:00 PM

Dallas, TX

An Orion Hiring Conference is your chance to interview with hiring managers for positions that

are a match with your background, skills and preferences. Orion holds approximately 75 hiring

conferences each year in cities throughout the nation, and the conference will feature positions

throughout that region of the country.

Orion focuses on corporations that value the unique skills and experiences of the military service

member, and often the interviewers are Orion Alumni. An Orion Hiring Conference is not a Job

Fair. Attendance is by invitation only, and you will have private interviews with Hiring

Managers that are pre-arranged based on your background and preferences, allowing you to

research the company and industry beforehand.

In addition, we offer a full day of interview preparation, briefings on the interviewing companies

and positions (often times presented by the hiring managers themselves), and opportunities for

you to network with other job seekers as well as the client companies. As with all of Orion's

services, there is no fee of any kind for our job seekers to attend an Orion Hiring Conference.

Hiring Conference is the best opportunity to interview with several companies committed to the

hiring process in just a few days.

For more information please visit:

http://www.orioninternational.com/jobseekers_hiringconferences.aspx  or contact

careers@oriointernational.com .

 

Carry the Load 2012 Dallas

Sunday, May 27 3:30p

Reverchon Park

3505 Maple Ave.

Dallas, TX 75219

(214) 670-7720

Carry the Load 2012 helps people celebrate a meaningful Memorial Day with a 20-hour event

that honors and thanks veteran and active duty members of the military, law enforcement

officers, firefighters and their families

Vietnam Veterans Welcome Home Schedule of Events

As promised, Fort Hood Public Affairs has provided more detailed information regarding the

Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans series of events.

NOTE: you MUST REGISTER NO LATER THAN 24 APRIL 2012. The Veteran

Registration Form is highlighted below.

What: Welcome Home Ceremony for Vietnam Veterans

Where: Shadowski Field, Fort Hood, Texas

When: Monday 21 May 2012

Time: 10:00 am

Who: sponsored by US Army III Corps, headquartered at Fort Hood

Registration: online NO LATER THAN Tuesday 24 April 2012

http://www.forthoodpresscenter.com/go/survey/3439/7115

April 2012 McKinney Workforce Center Calendar

Welcome to My HealtheVet

My HealtheVet is the Veterans online gateway to managing your health. Registered users can safely

collect data from VA hospital records as well as personally entered information -- even data from your

service days as well as more recent times -- all in a single place and available online 24/7.

In the past year, more features have been added that allow you to view appointments, check lab results,

review details about your allergies, check past vaccinations, and see vitals and readings. The most popular

feature is online prescription refills. You can also view your prescription history.

And all this information comes together at the touch of the Blue Button.

Using the Blue Button is a simple way to collect all this data into a single file

that you can save, store and share as you like. (Because this data has so much

personal information in it, we will remind you often to protect and safeguard

it.) You can choose a date range of a few months, years, or everything that is available.

As if these features aren't enough, now Veterans can exchange messages with doctors, nurses, clinicians

and other members of their health care team. Secure Messaging is safe and secure, because the messages

you send and receive are all kept within My HealtheVet.

https://www.myhealth.va.gov/index.html

Here are the Legal Clinic schedules for Collin County that are served by the McKinney

office of Legal Aid of North West Texas

www.lanwt.org  for more information.

2012

COLLIN COUNTY EVENING CLINIC DATES (EJVP)

ALLEN PLANO

Apr 12 Apr 19

May 10 May 17

June 14 June 21

July 12 July 19

Aug 9 Aug 16

Sept 13 Sept 20

Oct 11 Oct 18

Nov 08 Nov 15

Dec 13 Dec 20

CLINIC LOCATIONS

ALLEN First United Methodist Church, 601 S. Greenville Ave., Allen, Tx.

PLANO Harrington Public Library, 1501 18th St., Plano, Tx.

Start times for both are 6:00pm but someone is usually there by 5:00pm setting

up. Non-attorney volunteers should try to be there as close to 5:00pm as possible

please.

For more information contact McKinney office at (972) 542-9405 or (800) 906-3045.

 

 

 

 

FEDS hire VETS

Is your single site for Federal employment information for Veterans, transition military service

members, their families, and Federal hiring officials.

http://www.fedshirevets.gov/Index.aspx

http://www.fedshirevets.gov/AgencyDirectory/index.aspx

April 2012 Labor Market Information

In an effort to reduce the size of the monthly Veterans Newsletter, and because the changing reporting formats for

Labor Market Information have made it increasingly difficult to present it in the newsletter format, we are providing

the following link for those who wish to follow the economic indicators for the county. Click on the following link,

and scroll down the page to select the county you wish to review. Here's the link:

https://www.dfwjobs.com/business/economictrends.asp

Texas Veterans Commission (TVC) Newsletter

If you would like to sign up for the Texas Veterans Commission (TVC) Newsletter which provides

information and updates about veteran's news, benefits and services, you can subscribe on the

website: http://texas-veterans.com/

Veterans Crisis Line Website The Veterans Crisis Line connects Veterans in crisis

and their families and friends with qualified, caring Department of Veterans Affairs

responders through a confidential toll-free hotline, online chat, or text. Veterans and

their loved ones can call 1-800-273-8255 and Press 1, chat online, or send a text

message to 838255 to receive confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365

days a year. http://veteranscrisisline.net/

Community Lifeline Center is now able to provide a range of support services to North Collin

County veterans or qualifying family members.

Services can include: Emergency assistance with housing or utilities, Medical and dental care,

Prescriptions, Counseling, Job development/training, Legal Assistance, and Auto care. For additional

information about there program, please call 972-542-0020.

http://www.communitylifeline.org/

General Information

If you are currently employed and haven’t already notified us, we would appreciate

your taking a few minutes to let us know where and when you started. This information

is a basis of our veterans funding, and allows for continued assistance to local veterans.

If you are no longer seeking employment, we will inactivate your Work in Texas

application if you wish. Just let us know.

Robert (Bobby Lee) Williams Veronica Carnucci

Texas Veterans Commission Texas Veterans Commission

Veterans Employment Representative Veterans Employment Representative

McKinney Workforce Center McKinney Workforce Center

972-542-3381 ext 3108 972-542-3381 ext 3109

robert.williams@tvc.state.tx.us  veronica.carnucci@tvc.state.tx.us

 

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