BDPA Offers 540 IT Job Openings and a Webinar to Solve Your Resume Dilemma

Thinking about your information technology career? There are 540 job openings currently available through the new BDPA Job Board – www.ITDiversityCareers.com. Upload your current resume and view career opportunities from all regions of the nation. Upward mobility is in your future. Share this information with any IT professionals that you know who are unemployed or under-employed. Sign up today or learn more.

Are you interested in how to gain experience, revamp your resume, and market yourself so you can land a job in IT? Join BDPA for our upcoming Real Talk webinar on building up your resume.

BDPA Atlanta is offering a webinar entitled ‘The Resume Dilemma: Not Enough Experience’ by Jacqueline K. Sanders on Thursday October 25, 2012 @ 7pm EDT. This webinar will focus on tips for building up your resume so that you can land a job in the IT field. Attend this webinar on 'cracking the code' to getting a job in IT. This webinar is about applying the ‘experience factor’, seeing results and making it work for you.

BDPA exists to advance the careers of African Americans and others in the IT industry from the classroom to the boardroom. Your action is simple – (a) upload your resume to our new BDPA Job Board and (b) register to attend the webinar later this week!

Feel free to reach out to BDPA by phone (301.584-3135) or email (careers@bdpa.org) if you have questions or wish to discuss further!

This Week in BDPA (Oct 14-20)

BDPA offers strong programs in 45 cities around the nation. Are you taking advantage of these programs? Here is a weekly preview of upcoming events gathered from the centralized BDPA calendar :

• Oct 17: Philadelphia - Program Meeting, 'Annual Recruiters Roundtable'
  
• Oct 17: Detroit - Program Meeting, 'Technology in Healthcare'
  
• Oct 17: New Jersey - Webinar, 'Effective Use of Your iPad and iPhone for Business'
• Oct 18: Cincinnati - Program Meeting, 'Roadmap to Success: An Entrepreneur's Story'
• Oct 18: New York - Program Meeting, 'Every IT Professional is a Soldier in the War Against Cyber Threats'
• Oct 20: Orlando - Workshop, 'Big Data, Business Intelligence & Predictive Analysis'
• Oct 20: New York - Workshop, 'Cyber Security'
• Oct 20: National BDPA - Webinar, 'Career Triage: Managing Multiple Priorities'

Please let us know of other BDPA events that we may have missed!

You can always find BDPA programs, services or networking activity online at places such as:

• BDPA Facebook Group
• BDPA Foundation Facebook Page
• BDPA LinkedIn Network Group.

BDPA supports your efforts for career advancement in the IT industry. Our hope is that you find reasons to provide tax-deductible support to our Causes, our HSCC Scholarship Funds or Your Causes!

We encourage all BDPA leaders to take advantage of the centralized BDPA Groupsite Calendar to post your upcoming events!