Career Jump-Start met on Tuesday, 28 August 2012 at First United Methodist Church of Richardson, Texas. About 20 people were present for Sol Cartier’s program titled “Influencing the Influencer.”

It appears that people stay away from Career Jump-Start when they know there will be a workshop. The workshops can be difficult; however, they help us learn in a safe environment. So, they are a good thing. My band director in seventh grade told us to make a sound with our musical instruments emphasizing that otherwise he has no way of knowing how to help us learn how to play the instrument. He has to hear the sound that we make with our musical instrument to know what to tell us to do. Practice sessions in the band room were where we needed to make and learn from our mistakes not during performances. Career Jump-Start workshops are a place where we can "make a sound" and receive help that improves that "sound" so that we provide outstanding performances in interviews. I blew a slide trombone from 7th through 12th grade. I decided that I needed more study time and less music time in college; therefore, I decided not to participate in band or orchestra in college.

Sol Cartier helped us understand how behaviors vary from person to person and how behaviors change as time goes by. Some people are logic driven while other people are rapport driven. See figure 1. Sol provided the mnemonic “lefty logic right rapport.” Human resources people primarily evaluate how people fit the culture and secondarily apply logic to evaluate people.

While being logic or rapport driven, people are also either extrinsic or intrinsic. An extrinsic person is very outgoing making a point to shake everybody’s hand. An intrinsic person is very inward finding a corner with six or eight friends and ignoring the rest of the world. An extrinsic person can be logic driven or rapport driven. Likewise, an intrinsic person can be logic driven or rapport driven. See figure 2.

Sol had B+ marked on his arm to remind him to be positive.

It is possible to act outside of your stable behavior. It is not easy to shift like this. It requires a conscious effort. See figure 3 for an illustration of how behavior changes as time goes by during an interview. In this example, behavior is rapport driven as the interview begins. Behavior becomes logic driven as the interview progresses. Behavior changes back and forth between rapport and logic as the interview progresses.

An interviewer answers the question “If I am a good fit for this job, do you have any concerns about how I would fit?” based on whether they are logic or rapport driven. A logic driven person should provide a meaningful answer to this question. A rapport driven person will “sugar coat” their answer.

Have a 90-day plan for what you will do if hired.

NEXT MEETING: Tuesday, 18 September 2012 will be a celebration of the seventh anniversary of Career Jump-Start. This event will be upstairs in room 230A. So, park in the lot near Custer Road and enter the education building near the middle of the building. The room is on the second floor at the west end of the hallway.

Career Jump-Start usually meets on Tuesday evenings at First United Methodist Church, 503 North Central Expressway, Richardson, Texas 75080. Official information about this group is available at http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/CJS-HPUMC/ and  http://www.fumcr.com/pages/caring_career_support.

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Monty Mills resumed his Monday Night Bible Study, following a summer recess, at The Edgemere™ (8523 Thackery. Dallas, Texas 75225) on Monday, 10 September 2012. He started a study of the Model Prayer, sometimes called the Disciples Prayer. Monty explained how it is a misnomer to call this the Lord's Prayer; this only occurs in the English language. This session covered the context of the Model Prayer. This is our Lord’s instruction to his disciples on how they should pray. Praying according to this model earns eternal reward. About 18 people were present for this study. 

Quarter Century Wireless Association – Chapter 41 - Barney Moffatt Memorial - Dallas, Texas met on Saturday, 08 September 2012 at Midway Point Restaurant, 12801 Midway Road, Dallas, Texas 75244. There were 19 people who participated in this lunch meeting.

Val Erwin – W5PUT announced that the chapter charter has been modified to state that there are no chapter dues; however, current dues in Quarter Century Wireless Association national are required.

The chapter has a new website that is up and running at http://www.texasqcwa41.org/. Verify meeting dates on this new website.

Val Erwin – W5PUT – QCWA National Director will be at the QCWA 2012 Convention in Reno, Nevada.

Several members plan to attend the Belton Hamfest on the first Saturday of October. Therefore, it was agreed that Chapter 41 will meet on the second Saturday of October - this will be the 13th day of October 2012. 

Several awards were presented. See the attached photographs.

Steve Brodie – K5ZYZ resigned as chapter president following seven years in office. The distance that Steve drives to and from the chapter meetings and increasing cost of gasoline make it impractical for Steve to continue attending chapter meetings every month. He plans to participate three or four times a year.

Bob Olney – N5NT agreed to be chapter president (commander and chief) in the interim until somebody else agrees to assume responsibility for the office of chapter president. The most difficult task for the chapter president is storing and transporting the audio video equipment to each meeting.

Every person who received an award today is on a chapter committee to assist the chapter president. 

The United Methodist Men of St. Andrew United Methodist Church met on Saturday, 08 September 2012. We enjoyed breakfast that included a tasty casserole made by Marla Womack (the wife of a member) bagels, spreads for the bagels, and coffee. Jim Womack called the meeting to order and began the meeting with a prayer.

Plans for the 12th Annual Messenger of Hope St. Andrew United Methodist Church Golf Tournament were finalized. The tournament will occur on Friday 05 October 2012 at The Old American Golf Course, 1001 Lebanon Road, The Colony, Texas 75056. Pamphlets that provide detailed information about the tournament were provided to members for distribution to potential supporters and /or participants. Registration entries can be completed on the next four Sundays. Members signed up to promote the tournament on the next four Sundays. Members agreed to staff the registration table at the golf tournament. This golf tournament raises funds for the Messenger of Hope Scholarships.

Ron Weaver led a devotional based on the book Fearless by Max Lucado, Chapter 1 – Why Are We Afraid? We watched a video about this chapter and discussed related questions. It was stated that this lesson should help identify how to overcome fears and identify when fear is a protection. Good fears stop us from doing something that would cause harm.

Jim Womack closed the meeting with a prayer.

Following the UMM meeting, three members helped Ron Weaver disassemble a six crib piece of furniture that no longer meets code. This piece of furniture is going to a church in Laredo, Mexico.

The Seven Loaves Food Pantry served 54 client families on Thursday, 06 September 2012 between 4:00 PM and 6:30 PM. One client family is defined as from one person to nine people. Each client family received fresh pears in addition to selections from the personal shopping table, eggs, frozen meats, one number-one and one number-two bag of food items for each family member. The number-one bag of food typically contains canned protein (tuna, chicken, salmon, chili, stew, SPAM©, or ham) and three cans of fruit (apple sauce, pears, peaches, mixed fruit, Mandarin oranges, etc.). The number-two bag of food typically contains four canned vegetables or soups, beans (typically a bag of dried beans when available otherwise two cans of beans), and a grain (rice) or pasta (spaghetti with a can of spaghetti sauce or macaroni and cheese). The content of the bags of food changes according to what is in stock in the panty. In the past week, this food pantry was stocked with canned peaches after being out of canned fruit for several weeks.

This food pantry located in St. Andrew United Methodist Church of Plano, Texas served one client in April 2009. It now serves more than 600 clients each week. Between April 2009 and July 2012 this food pantry served 50,000 clients and 3,762 volunteer hours have been donated to this food pantry. The Seven Loaves Food Pantry stresses radical hospitality.

Donations of canned fruit (size 303 cans preferred), pasta, and rice would be a tremendous help for the Seven Loaves Food pantry at this time. Donations should be delivered to St. Andrew United Methodist Church, 5801 W. Plano Parkway, Plano, Texas 75093; items are collected on the east side of the campus in the first floor hallway of the Education building at the entrance to the Youth Commons – enter through the doors at the north end of the Education building. Receipts for donations are available.

Official information about the Seven Loaves Food Pantry & Community Center is available at http://www.7loavescommunity.org/home.html and https://www.facebook.com/pages/Seven-Loaves-Food-Pantry-Community-Center/136331916471019. For more information, call 469-385-1813 or email: [email protected].