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Group helps jobless real estate and related professionals
(TAMPA BAY BUSINESS JOURNAL) - Six months after Tampa Bay area volunteers started Real Estate Lives to help the growing number of jobless in the region, the nonprofit has helped place more than 40 people in jobs and it has created a formidable networking group that offers services from free group therapy to interview coaching.
And the number of reemployed might be higher since “rebounders,” the name for those in between jobs, who find work tend to lose touch with the Real Estate Lives, volunteer and real estate lawyer Ron Weaver said at the group’s Friday meeting at the Greater Tampa Association of Realtors. That’s OK since it means people are getting on with their lives, Weaver said.
More than 200 people, including lawyers, Realtors, architects, engineers and accountants, have joined the group that offers a growing array of services.
More than 100 people attended the Friday meeting that started at 9 a.m. and lasted into the afternoon as Larry LaBelle of Taming Trainer Inc. coached job seekers.
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