Event Planning for Beginners
This course is a complete overview of the process of planning meetings, banquets, special events, and parties. Come learn how just a few special touches can take your regular event and make it a magnificent event! Whether you need to plan an intimate dinner for two, a birthday party, festival, or banquet, this class will provide step-by-step organization, planning, budgeting, site selection, and timing strategies.
Deena Weems Thornton graduated from Kutztown University with a degree in Communications, concentrating in Public Relations. Deena has 15 years of experience planning various events and fundraisers, and has served as Special Events Coordinator at Philadelphia College and is currently the Director of Development for a local non-profit. In 2001, 2006, 2008 and 2009, she was named one of Philadelphia's Most Influential African American Leaders by a leading Philadelphia magazine.
Professional Development
Struggle with interviews, though you are qualified for the job? This class will help you prepare for the intervewing process covering resume writing and presentation, CDPs (Career Development Plans), and personal SWOT Analysis Plans. It will also cover interviewing tips and guidelines, mock interviews, and provide an open forum for questions and answers.
Gabrielle Anik has been a recruiter for Wawa for 14 years, and interviews candidates for management positions as well as college students for internships. She is the author of the Professional Development Workshop for internal candidates offered to all Wawa corporate associates.
Local Entrepreneurship
Do you dream of starting a business and don't know where to begin? This course will provide the aspiring business owner with the necessary information required to start building a successful business in Philadelphia, Montgomery County, Chester and Norristown.
Mark Corbin is the former Executive Director of the Enon Tabernacle Capital Fund, LLC. He specializes in small business growth and development.
MALT Ball 2010
Resume and Cover Letter Writing: A Simple Approach to a Complex Process
This class will help you write a new resume, update your current resume, or adjust your resume for switching career fields. Individual attention to each stage of the resume-building process will help you to create a wonderful document that displays your best talents and also to discover what marketable skills you may not have realized you had! This class will also assist you in writing the simplest, most effective cover letter, capable of grabbing the attention of any recruiter.
Jennifer Doebler, M.A., is the founder of Doebler Consulting. She is the Lead Career Coach and has over 11 years of experience in staff recruitment, selection, and training. She enjoys teaching seminars, helping people through mock interviews, and getting clients to see their true potential.