Back and Forward: Chandra Pappas
Executive vice president at staffing company Nelson on workforce strategy
Chandra Pappas, executive vice president at staffing company Nelson offers her insight into workforce strategy. For more from Pappas, check out “Strength in Numbers” in our March issue. Sign up for our newsletter and we’ll email you when it’s available online.
3 Social Media Tips for Your College-Bound Teen
Start networking early by leveraging online tools
Try these three strategies to help teenagers use their social media platforms to better prepare for college.
From Classroom to Commerce
How one local entrepreneur built a business by combining multiple careers
The defining moments over the course of a career can often feel conflicting — especially when one makes choices that seem misaligned with a prior path. But Melissa Camilleri Anicich, founder and CEO of Compliment in East Sacramento and a former high school teacher, has found a way to blend together two disparate careers.
Tell us about your career switch!
Maybe you were once an accountant, but now run a soda company. Or you left your lobbyist job to focus on the wellness industry. If you too have gone through a career shift, fill out the form and we may share your story.
Buzzwords: Change Agent
In the entrepreneurial realm, everyone wants to be a change agent. With disruptors like Elon Musk — who brought us Tesla and the concept of terraforming Mars — raising the stakes on the definition of the word, the startup landscape is overflowing with wannabe-visionaries claiming to change the world.
But, what does the term really mean?
Build Your Skills
Not every company offers employee education — so here’s how to find it on your own
As annual review season rolls around, managers seize the opportunity to suggest areas of improvement. Unfortunately, training and development expenses are often seen as personal, rather than company (or shared) responsibilities.
From Office Management to Grief Management
How drawing on life experience and personal interests led one local woman to a fulfilling career
Lisa West had to figure out how to change careers after leaving her family’s construction company doing the same work at the same company for 17 years.
Innovation Unlocked
Local brainiacs offer five habits for flexing your creative-thinking muscles
Intelligence might be built into our DNA, but what about creativity and problem-solving? Not so, experts say. So, if it can be taught, how can we learn? We ask some local brainiacs for their tips for inspiring outside-the-box thinking.
From Youth Program Development to Nonprofit Communications
Why one local man says that it’s never too late to be intentional with your career path
Now the marketing and communications manager for Sacramento Children’s Home, Houser ended up not too far from his origin in youth development, though you could say he took the long way around.
Fill in the Blanks
Facing a teacher shortage, Sacramento City Unified School District crosses the Pacific to find help, but not everyone is on board
Should a school district struggling to fill vacant teaching positions recruit from overseas? With that question looming overhead, Sacramento City Unified School District develops a new credential program with Sacramento State to address its teacher shortage over the long-term.