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October 26, 7:52 AMBaltimore Unemployment ExaminerAdriane Miller

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Kudos to Nancy Fink and the career coaches at the Maryland Department of Labor’s Professional Outplacement Assistance Center (POAC) in Columbia. Their work with skilled but unemployed men and women in Maryland was featured favorably Sunday, Oct. 25, in a New York Times article, “Tables Turned, Former Hirers Can’t Get Hired.”

While the Times article emphasized the high-wattage of current job seekers and their difficulty in finding work in the recession, it left out a few important details about POAC and its particiants.

First, the support POAC offers professionals goes way beyond helping them prepare their resumes and get ready for interviews. Participants of POAC’s free two-day seminars can continue to meet and compare progress with other unemployed professionals in their industry as part of “affinity” groups POAC has established. (No whining allowed.)

Second, POAC participants can and are getting rehired. As a July ’09 POAC grad, I am working again, in no small part because of the advice POAC pressed: Stay connected, stay busy, and keep pushing past your comfort zone.

Click here for more information about POAC's free professional outplacement assistance provided to Maryland residents.