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Listen in as Paul talks about BNE’s efforts to market business and economic development organizations and streamline the region’s business practices. www.buffaloniagara.org Listen 9/13/09 – Buffalo Works is celebrating its two year anniversary this weekend! Joan and Jean are proud to have Gregg Lederman Managing Partner and Brand Strategist for Brand Integrity on their anniversary show and it was quite a show. Gregg is also the author of Achieve Brand Integrity, a book that highlights the ten truths you must know to enhance employee performance and increase company profits. Listen and Enjoy! www.brandintegrity.com Listen 9/6/09 – Buffalo Works would like to wish a happy Labor Day to our fine workforce! As a guest on today’s show, Joan and Jean welcome Kim Evans, Director of Employee Relations for Ivoclar Vivadent, a dental device manufacturer whose US headquarters are right in Amherst, NY. Listen in as Kim talks with Joan and Jean about the hiring world today, as well as the open positions that Ivoclar has right now. Listen 8/30/09 – Buffalo Works would like to introduce the TRIPLE TRACK partnership to the WNY market! Listen to the great advice dispensed by our experts and take a look at the website for more information. www.triple-track.com Listen 8/23/09 - GEICO IS HIRING ONCE AGAIN! Joan and Jean welcome back Carl Camardo - HR/Hiring Manager for Geico's Amherst location. Listen in as Carl goes over the great opportunities that are open for hire RIGHT NOW. www.geico.com Listen 8/16/09 - Brenda McDuffie, President and CEO of the Buffalo Urban League is our in-studio guest this Sunday. She's a great guest to have following this week's Get Ready / Get Hired Career Fair. Join us as we talk about empowering Buffalo's minority communities to empower themselves to "secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights". Listen 8/9/09 - Get Ready Get Hired (for more info: www.employmewny.com) is the career fair of the summer sponsored by the Buffalo Niagara Partnership (www.thepartnership.org), the Western New York Association for College Career Counselors (WNYACCC) and Buffalo Niagara Human Resources Association (BNHRA). Joan and Buffalo Works has enlisted the help of three experts in their field to talk about this exciting day. Joining us is Judith Abblebaum of WNYACCC (www.wnyaccc.org), Carl Camardo of Geico - a premier vendor at the event (www.geico.com) and Sue Czyrny with BNRHA (www.bnhra.org). The Get Ready Get Hired career fair and networking event is free to attend, on August 12, 2009 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm at ECC City Campus. Listen 8/2/09 - Jean and Joan are excited to host a very introspective show today. Success starts internally and being able to leverage your core strengths and preferences is the key to a long and fruitful career. Guest, S. Renee Smith is an Image Consultant and Motivational Speaker who is on telling her story of personal triumph and how that can relate to your own personal success. Listen 7/26/09 - Dale and Joan are on are with Jerry Leary, President and CEO of Koike Aronson - a manufacturer of high quality Welding Positioners, Plasma Cutting, Oxy Fuel Cutting, and Laser Cutting equipment. Listen to Jerry's fascinating story about his journey and the manufacturing industry as a whole and how it has evolved. Listen 7/19/09 - Today's show is a special one! Joan and Jean have invited three colleagues from the program they're involved in called Quantum Leap. QL is comprised of professionals from around the country and world who have a special message to deliver who are looking to gain their national stage. Amy Pedersen (www.amypedersen.com) is a mother, inventor, author and consultant who took her successful career from corporate marketing to her real passion that lead her to penning a children's book and inventing shapewear for women. Dr. Mache Seibel, Harvard Doctor, wanted to take his medical knowledge and love for music to merge them into a means to teach children about health. His program has since been featured on the Discovery Channel (www.healthrock.com). Our final guest today is Wendy Lipton-Dibner, author of "The Action Formula" (www.theactionformula.com). To hear about this formula - you'll have to click and listen! Listen 7/12/09 - Ever wonder what it takes to break into the Not For Profit sector in the Buffalo market? It's NFP week again at Buffalo Works and Joan has certainly enlisted the help of experts! Kirsti Hunt is the President of BNHRA (Buffalo Niagara Human Resources Association) and Chief HR Officer for the United Way of Buffalo and Erie County. Patty Olender is the Director of Brand Management for United Way of Buffalo and Erie County. Dave Zablotny is the Executive Director for Buffalo Habitat for Humanity. Listen 6/28/09 – Buffalo Works would like to wish a Happy Fathers Day to all! Joan and Jean are in studio today with Bill Kuffner, independent consultant for the National Academy Foundation and Theron Howard, Subject Matter Expert for BNHRA. Listen 6/21/09 – Joan and Dale are with us this morning to talk about the past weekend’s CITYBRATION events. APA Solutions attended the Citybration Careerconnextions job fair on Friday, and so Joan thought it would be a perfect time to talk about job fair protocol and etiquette! Special guest for today is Mike Tritto – the right hand man to Marti Gorman (founder of Buffalo Niagara Homecoming / Citybration. Listen 6/14/09 – Joan Graci and Buffalo Works always does their best to tackle the tough issues in this “new normal economy” – and this Sunday’s show is no different. Guests in house for today are downsized candidates of APA Solutions – Joan’s permanent placement firm – who never expected to find themselves out of the job. Listen to Jeff Allen and Alex Aquilino as they tell their stories. Listen 6/7/09 – It’s that time of year again for Western New York to celebrate all of the great things that are going on in our business and cultural community. Buffalo Homecoming / Citybration celebrates all of the unique opportunities that Buffalo has to offer on a regional and national stage. Join Jean and Dale for this show as they discuss this year’s homecoming events with Marti Gorman and Linda Hontz. Listen 5/31/09 – One of the main buzz words in this economy is INVESTMENTS – whether there’s a fear of losing or the thrill of gaining long term or short term investments, it’s a hot topic and rightfully so. Join Joan and her guests Walter Grenda Jr (President) and Tim Hoag (Investment Advisor) from Reliance Financial as they talk MONEY. Listen 5/17/09 – What is one of the most visible companies whose headquarters is right here in Buffalo? If you answered New Era Cap Co, you would be correct! Joan, Jean and Dale are in house this Sunday morning with guest, Sarah Gilson – Human Resources Generalist for New Era. Listen 5/10/09 – Buffalo Works wishes everyone a Happy Mother’s Day this fine Sunday, and it’s Not for profit week to boot! It’s very fitting that this week’s guest is here to speak about the advancement of women in the business community. Melissa Nowak is a member of the advisory board for the WNY Women’s Fund, founded in 1999. This group assembles grants, does research, creates programs (etc) for advancing women in the WNY area. Listen 5/3/09 – Joan and Jean are in studio today with Ted Grasela, President and CEO of Cognigen Corp. Cognigen is ensconced in the pharmaceutical and biomedical realm that works nationally and internationally with drug developers in research and development. Ted has a fascinating story about his company, founded 15 years ago, right in the backyard of WNY! Listen and enjoy. Listen 4/26/09 – April is shaping up to be HR month on “Buffalo Works”. The guest in house with Joan and Jean this week is Renee Tererri, HR Director for Cameron Compression (an international air compressor manufacturing company). Join the three HR gurus as they discuss everything from resumes and interviewing to the new level of sophistication required of today’s HR professionals. Listen 4/19/09 – Joan and Dale are hosting this week’s “Ask the Expert” hour. The expert panel hales from BNHRA (Buffalo Niagara Human Resources Association) and are in house to answer any and all HR questions Western New Yorkers can ask. Colin Adams is the President of BNHRA and the Global HR Professional with Moog. Accompanying him is Laurie Warner, Director of Talent Acquisition for HealthNow NY. Listen 4/12/09 – Happy Easter, Happy Passover and Happy Sunday Buffalo! Join hosts Joan and Jean with in house guest Scott Levin, lead anchor for Buffalo’s own Channel 2 News (WGRZ) for an hour of true hope and inspiration! If you’re having troubles in these hard economic times; if you’ve recently been downsized or fear for your job, this is the show to listen to! Listen 4/5/2009 - Joan and Jean are getting high-tech with their guests for this week's show. Peter Ronca, President, and Mark Muscone, CTO of Shatter IT are in house talking not only about their business (network builders/admin extraorinaires) but they're talking about the IT world's need for new and diverse talent. The opportunities that exist within the IT world career-wise are expansive and our young people are completely unaware. Let's shed some light on the industry with local leading experts! Listen 3/29/09 – Joining Jean and Joan and Buffalo Works for a second time is special guest, Tyra Johnson – this time speaking on behalf of BEAM – Buffalo-area Engineering Awareness for Minorities which is a local group committed to getting more underrepresented minorities and women interested in careers in science and engineering. Listen 3/8/09 – The hosts for todays “ask the expert hour” are Jean Filipiak and Dale Martin and they’ll be discussing company “best practices” with two experts in the HR field. Guests are Colin Adams, president of BNHRA (Buffalo Niagara Human Resource Association) and HR Manager with Moog, as well as Denise Bonner, Director of Human Resources with Installs Inc. Listen and enjoy! Listen 3/1/09 – Host, Joan Graci is without her counterpart Jean today because it’s Anna’s (her daughter) birthday! Happy Birthday Anna! Buffalo Works’ special guest this week is President of Erie County Community College, Jack Quinn. Listen to this highly successful born bred and raised Buffalonian tell his fascinating story. He also talks about the benefits of ECC and what a two year college has to offer! Listen 2/22/09 – Education is the word of the hour on “Buffalo Works” with ECC workforce development in house visiting Joan and Jean. Carrie Kahn, Executive Dean of Workforce Development and Sam Leone, Corporate Training Specialist are with us to discuss all of the wonderful things going on at Erie Community College with relation to the continuing education they are offering that is so pertinent to today’s “hot” jobs. Listen 2/15/09 – Joan Jean and Dale are in studio today speaking with Ron Prazmark, Owner of Buffalo Office Systems. Buffalo Office Systems is an innovator in inter-office communication, from the revolution of the fax machine up to today’s teleconferencing capabilities. The possibilities for effective and cost efficient communication are many and Ron is pleased to share that with us. Also, Christina of Triple Track called in to make listeners aware of the employee assistance programs that are made available by their organization in times of crisis. The staff of APA Solutions and Buffalo Works is deeply saddened by the Continental 3407 plane crash and offers the WNY community and effected families their sincerest condolences. Listen 2/8/09 – For this month’s not-for-profit week, host Joan Graci welcomes Dana Astratta from CERT as well as Ron Trido, Executive Director, Make a Wish Foundation. Dana Astratta talks about CERT a disaster training program that is currently available to the public, and Ron speaks of his own career counseling with APA Solutions. And Kurt Ameco speaks more about Make a Wish and its services to children with life threatening illness. Listen 2/1/09 – In keeping with this month's career exploration theme, APA Solutions has welcomed Scott Peters, CAREERsavers candidate, as this weeks guest. The show focused on what to do if you lose your job. In an economy like ours, it is not always our fault as to why our careers fail. Question is do we take a proactive or reactive approach to the news? “Fear is a waste of emotion and we need to change that fear into strategy.” Listen 1/25/09 – Join Joan and Jean with this month's "Ask the Expert" segment. Today’s topic asks the question “Is college right for everyone?” In being smart with our investments, is college an investment that will reap a profit for us in the future or will we be stuck with a load of debt after it? Considering today’s expectations that going to college is “the right” thing to do – is it really the right choice for everyone? Especially since the income gap between that of a high school graduate and a college graduate has become more and more narrow than in years prior. Listen 1/18/09 – Does it take a village to raise a child? The guests on this week’s installment of Buffalo Works would certainly say so. We’re proud to announce that administrators from the Buffalo public school system are taking the podium with Joan this week and are speaking out about what we can do to better our educational system. Listen to Dr. James Williams, Superintendent and Tonja Williams, Director of Guidance and Alternative Education from our Buffalo School system. Tyra Johnson, Project Manager of Diversity and Neighborhood Redevelopment with LP Ciminelli, joins us as well to speak about her current work with the Buffalo public schools restoration project. Listen 1/11/09 – CAREERstarters, a program developed by Joan Graci and her counterparts is near and dear to her heart and is being rolled out this January. Joan, Dale and Cheryl Meyer, CAREERsavers Public Relations Director, talk about how we need to prepare our children for the volatile work world and CAREERstarters is here to do that! Listen 01/04/08 - Listen 12/28/08 – Lexie Brunstad is our guest today on Buffalo Works with our show dedicated entirely to our children and how they factor in to this new normal economy. This Clarkson college sophomore is here to educate us all on the differences between high school and college and what she did to prepare herself for the transition. Listen 12/21/08 – So you can’t find your passion? Maybe it’s a career in a not-for-profit organization. Joan and Jean are with the JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) for this month’s not-for-profit week. Executive Director, Karen Swierski and Special Events Coordinator, Alex Kobza are in house speaking about their passion for their organization as well as their upcoming January 2009 Winter Gala and other initiatives. Be sure to check out their website (www.jdrf.org) for more information on attending this fantastic event! Listen 12/14/08 – We’re talking everything HR on this installment of Buffalo Works! With special guest, Carl Camardo – HR/Hiring Manager for Geico, we truly have some experts commenting on the do’s and DON’TS of interviewing. Don’t forget to call APA or look at Geico’s website to find out about Geico’s job openings for the Buffalo area! Listen 12/7/08 – Jean and Dale are our hosts this week and they’re talking all about teamwork and the soft skills necessary in today’s work world. In studio with them is Clayton Steen, Director of MBA program at D’Youville college, who brings even more valuable insight into the difference between academic “smarts” and “street smarts” – IE tactical skills versus strategic skills. Don’t forget to purchase your copy of Joan’s book, MBA: More Bad Advice, which is the REAL career guide that tells you what educators won’t post-college. Listen 11/23/08 Listen 11/16/08 – Gary Steszewski, President of CityMade Inc is the guest of 11/16’s radio show. Listen with Joan and Jean as Gary articulates the vision he created for his company and how he was able to use the internet in its infancy to get his business off the ground. Joan’s theme in these hard economic times is “do what sets you apart”. Gary is the poster child for doing things his way and creating a flourishing business. Listen 11/9/2008 – It’s not-for-profit week on Buffalo Works and Joan and Jean are speaking to Christine Carr, Executive Director of Computers for Children. CFC is dedicated to enhancing the learning opportunities for schoolchildren by increasing their access to current computers. Listen to Christine talk about her background and how Computers for Children is making a positive impact in our WNY educational community! Listen October 12,2008 – Joan and Jean speak with special guest, Patricia Jensen, Executive Director for Buffalo Alliance for Education about the importance of quality primary education. Listen as Pat tells her success story and how it eventually led her to this dynamic position within a prominent Buffalo not-for-profit organization. Listen October 5,2008 – Jean and Joan are at it again with their “Ask the Expert” hour on this week’s Buffalo Works show. This week they’re addressing our nation’s current economic fears and how that is translating into the “wonderful world” of employment. This is truly a show that speaks of the tough issues that are plaguing the American public. Listen and enjoy! Listen September 28,2008 – To continue with the Buffalo Works September, a month in medical, theme, listen with Joan and Jean as they speak to Rita Hubbard Robinson – Director of Training for ECMC (Erie County Medical Center) as she discusses how her drive and determination led her to this exciting role within the hospital community. Listen September 22,2008 -Pat Dwyer, President of Healthforce of WNY joins Joan and Jean on this installment of Buffalo Works to talk about her needs being in the home healthcare industry. It’s an extremely informative show detailing how you can break into home health care as an aid, companion or nurse. Come work for Healthforce, voted the Best Place to Work 5 years in a row! Listen September 14,2008 – Listen to Joan and Jean as they chat with Jackie Albarella – President and Founder of Albarella Media and Executive Director of Arts in Education Institute of WNY. Jackie, an accomplished and syndicated producer speaks candidly about her career journey and how she put her stamp on a predominantly male-operated industry. Jackie also speaks about how her Executive Directorship with the Arts and Education Institute; a not-for-profit organization that works to “bring music, theater, dance, architecture, and visual and media arts into the classroom and encourage students to use their creativity and imagination as tools for learning”.Listen August 24,2008. Come “get on track” with Joan, Jean and special guest Angie Klee, owner of Triple track. Triple Track is a consulting firm that specializes in teaching it's clients how to maintain a home life and work life balance and Angie is the authority on this topic! Come explore the vast and unique services Triple track offers ranging from child care, elder care, an employee assistant programs. Triple Track is here to support employees needs and pave the way towards getting employees and employers on the right path to balance. Listen August 17, 2008. Turner Gill, former assistant receivers coach and player development coordinator of the Green-Bay Packers, joins Joan and Jean to share his story of the parallels we see in the athletic community to the necessary traits needed in our work life. Now as the Head football Coach of The Univ. at Buffalo, Turner Gill is tackling the lessons of the “how’s and whys”; how you do things and why to provide strategies and life skills so his athletes can go out into the work place and perform at the highest levels. So tune in and listen! Listen August 10, 2008. Listen to Joan and Jean and guest, Marc Pearlman as they discuss the financial element to our standard individual business model. Marc, an independent investment advisor with Securities America Advisors - and radio host of Your Money Matters on WWKB 1520 - has an education in finance and psychology. He’s taken his skills sets to apply them as a complement to each other in order to dissect financially, what makes us tick as human beings as well as how we can use money to build and to destroy. Listen and enjoy! Listen August 3, 2008. Listen to Joan Graci in “Ask the Expert” hour for this week's show. Let her expertise give you insight into your own career questions. Listen July 27, 2008. How many people really do understand the different generations and how they may or may not be able to work together? Generation Works realized the need for this understanding to make the working environment successful and give employers that understanding of how to handle each generation. It is a very interesting story of how to woman came to the realization that understanding is something necessary for work places to help them become more successful. Listen |
