Dress for Success® Triangle Clients to Participate in Monster.com Keep America Working Tour

Sept. 18, 2009 - PRLog -- Dress for Success clients will attend Monster.com’s “Keep America Working Tour” event in Raleigh, NC, participating in pre-fair training sessions to help demystify the career fair experience. Dress for Success Clients, who have been suited and coached by non-profits, will meet with Monster Career Advice Specialists and learn tips and tools to help them approach and speak with employers on the job fair floor. The event will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009, from 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. at the North Raleigh Hilton, 3415 Wake Forest Rd., Raleigh, N.C.

More than 20 clients, referral partners from Durham Social Services, Wake Technical Community College, StepUp Ministry and Dress for Success Triangle founder Pat Nathan will be available for media interviews during Monster.com’s “Keep America Working Tour.” The tour includes more than 100 stops across the nation throughout 2009. Since its kick-off in Boston at the end of February, the tour has featured more than 1,674 employers with more than 40,000 jobs to be filled in 49 major markets. Monster® is a leading global online career and recruitment resource and flagship brand of Monster Worldwide, Inc. . To schedule an interview, please contact Laura Lawton at 408-505-5820 or laura@preludepr.com.

Dress for Success is an international not-for-profit organization that promotes the economic independence of disadvantaged women by providing professional attire, a network of support and the career development tools to help women thrive in work and in life. Since starting operations in 1997, Dress for Success has expanded to more than 90 cities in the U.S., Canada, Mexico,  Poland, New Zealand, the Netherlands UK, and the West Indies. To date, Dress for Success has helped more than 500,000 women work towards self-sufficiency. www.dressforsuccess.org/trianglenc.

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Non-profit that helps Raleigh/Durham, NC, low-income women gain employment and provides professional development programs. Women are given business-appropriate interview attire and training to become self sufficient.