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April 2025 Newsletter
Career Center seminars, announcements, and videos for April 🍓
Career Center
April 01, 2025
We have four exciting seminars for you this month!
Links to information about each seminar are below, and more detailed information can be found further into our newsletter:
Productivity Hour - every Monday in April - click here for more information
Job Search Scams: How to Recognize and Avoid Them - April 10th - click here for more information
How to Succeed at a Job Fair - April 26th - click here for more information
Free Bloodborne Pathogens Certification Class - April 26th - click here for more information
If you want to see our upcoming videos when we post them:
 | Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else. SARAH BLAKELY All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. WALT DISNEY |
News and Announcements
We have 2 announcements this month.
1) You may have seen our flyer for a seminar planned for April 9th:
How to Get Hired as a Process Operator, featuring recruiters from ExxonMobil.
Sadly, that seminar has been CANCELLED. We are working to reschedule for June.
2) There has been an update regarding the library funding tax millage.
The Library Administration and the Mayor’s Office reached an agreement for
a new proposal called Thrive! Baton Rouge. This compromise would allow the library
to keep its dedicated millage, but at a reduced rate - 8.3 mills instead of the previous
11.1 - with the remaining 2.8 mills going to a general fund that the Mayor’s Office
can use for other purposes. Thrive! Baton Rouge includes similar plans for the Council
on Aging and the Mosquito Abatement and Rodent Control Department.
More information can be found here:
OFFICE-OF-THE-MAYOR-PRESIDENT-THRIVE-ANNOUNCEMENT.pdf
April Seminars
PRODUCTIVITY HOUR: RENEWED BY POPULAR DEMAND!
EVERY MONDAY IN APRIL, 2025
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Main Library at Goodwood
Room B, Second Floor
The Career Center’s Productivity Hour is for workers of all stripes – even students and hobbyists and non-busy-bodies. Bring your laptop, literature or project and join us for an hour-long session of productivity. Participants are expected to work quietly, but at the end of the session will be asked to share their progress.
Free Wi-fi access will be available, along with pen and paper, and light refreshments. Laptops are available upon request. Ages 16 and up are welcome to attend.
No registration required - just show up with your project!
JOB SEARCH SCAMS:
RECOGNIZING AND AVOIDING THEM
THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2025
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Main Library at Goodwood
Room 102, Lobby
Sometimes free isn’t free . . . especially online.
And when something sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
This seminar teaches strategies for a safe and effective online job search
so that you won't get taken advantage of. Anne Nowak, Certified Career Coach
and head of the library’s Career Center, will discuss common job search scams
and how to recognize and avoid them.
Learn which clues to look out for, how to safeguard your own information
and how to job search safely and securely.
Registration is required. To register, call 225-231-3733 or click here.
HOW TO SUCCEED AT A JOB FAIR
SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 2025
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Main Library at Goodwood
Room 102, Lobby
Attention, active jobseekers: April is Job Fair month. In order to make the most of your chances for success, we recommend that you come to our Job Fair Success seminar!
Career Center staff will discuss what to expect at job fairs, how to prepare, how to make a good first impression, and how to avoid common mistakes.
Use this workshop to prep for EmployBR's large job fair on April 30!
Registration is required. To register, call 225-231-3733 or click here.
FREE BLOODBORNE PATHOGENS CERTIFICATION CLASS
SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 2025
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Main Library at Goodwood
Room 102, Lobby
Baton Rouge Community College Workforce Development is offering
a free training opportunity, hosted at the Main Library, to earn
the Bloodborne Pathogens certification from the American Red Cross.
This industry-based certification is perfect for anyone who wants to up-skill their professional profile. This course will teach you how bloodborne pathogens are spread, how to avoid exposure, and what to do if you are exposed to infectious material.
Registration is required. To register, call 225-231-3733 or click here.