June 5, 2009
by Christine Yeres
WEBS Career and Educational Counseling Service workshop comes to the Chappaqua Library on Saturday, June 20. They are offering eight 45-minute slots of personal one-on-one consultation with a professional career counselor, free of charge through the Westchester Library System. So far, only one of the slots for the workshop, “Does Your Resume Need a Makeover?” has been reserved.
“We’re a recession-proof service,” explained Elaine Sozzi, director of WEBS. “We’ve been around since 1980. In good times, people making voluntary career changes seek us out; in hard times people are worried about staying employed and look to us for help with their resumes.”
“Although ‘WEBS’ began as an acronym for ‘Westchester Educational Brokering Service,’ it is just a recognizable tag now, followed by the more accurate description, ‘Career and Educational Counseling Service,’” explained Sozzi, “because no one knew whether we were a real estate outfit or a radio station.”
WEBS now travels the Westchester Library System, offering two types of eight-week seminars, “Managing Your Career in Changing Times,” and “Take Charge! Career/Live Planning after 50,” at different libraries several times a year. “We also offer individual counseling by appointment at two Yonkers libraries and one in Mt. Vernon, plus,” Sozzi continued, “workshops on resume development, interviewing, job search strategies and time management, and we provide career information.”
Most of WEBS’ clients are between 30 and 60 years old, but anyone out of high school is a potential client of WEBS, said Sozzi. “We can help you assess yourself in terms of interest, skills and personality; overcome internal barriers; help you understand the world of work; improve your decision making; resolve work conflicts; help you cope with job stress and job loss.”
Besides an extensive menu of career resources, WEBS’ website also offers career links, an online education data base that allows users to search over 45 post-secondary schools in Westchester – undergraduate, graduate and vocational schools – and learn about programs, tuition and teachers.
To reserve a counseling session spot for Saturday, June 20, call the Chappaqua Library at 238-4779. But call Sozzi too at 674-3612 “because we like to explain ourselves,” she said. Preference for the workshops will be given to Chappaqua Library cardholders.
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