A career transition firm that helps clients find employment and secure a retirement path, Work Save Retire offers its services with no fees. Based in Chanhassen, Minnesota, Work Save Retire assists job seekers with overcoming the obstacles presented in the modern day career search. The professionals at Work Save Retire possess years of experience in helping individuals transition into a new career, and they use their knowledge to help effectively and efficiently find positions for their clients.
Work Save Retire is a leading career transition firm, attributing its success to many factors. The suite of tools Work Save Retire provides is one of the most innovative programs available, with more than $2 million invested in its development. The efficiency and quality of Work Save Retire’s program allows clients to spend less time looking for jobs, while at the same time making them more effective in all other aspects of the career search. The company understands the issues job seekers face in today’s job market, and their career transition program was designed to meet client’s needs—not those of employers.
Work Save Retire sets itself apart from the competition with its free-of-charge services including personal career coaching, and tools to publish résumés on a personal Web domain while identifying which words on a résumé will make it through electronic gatekeepers and catch an employers’ eye. During the coaching process, clients also learn how to effectively network to bring about opportunities that cannot be found online. Work Save Retire also claims extensive experience in enhancing and contributing to the client’s retirement asset planning system.
Many individuals who have used Work Save Retire have shared their success stories online, including one individual who received five phone calls within three days of redesigning his résumé using the suite of tools, and many others who have found many new opportunities thanks to the company’s support. To read more testimonials or learn more about the firm, visit the website at WorkSaveRetire.com.
In 2008, educator Laurel Panser traveled as a Fulbright–Hays Fellowship recipient to Morocco to study in the Seminars Abroad program called Morocco: The Delicate Balance between Traditional Identity and Modernity. Joining other scholars, she recorded experiences and observations in a group journal and shared her insights on Moroccan medinas, which are historic city sections, typically walled, with narrow, mazelike streets. To learn more about the unique Seminars Abroad program Laurel Panser and her colleagues experienced, visit www.macece.org/grants/americans/fhs2008.htm.
Holding Master of Arts degrees in Geography and Epidemiology and certification as an online instructor, Laurel Panser’s range of college courses taught includes geography, philosophy, writing, epidemiology, and psychology. Asked anonymously if they would take another course from her, students of Laurel Panser at Rochester Community and Technical College provided overwhelmingly positive responses. Students of her Ethics and Its Application in Healthcare class gave her a 100 percent endorsement, and 76 percent of those taking Positive Life Skills Psychology and 75 percent of Human Geography students responded favorably.
Credentialed to teach in the fields of geography, health, and psychology, Laurel Panser’s teaching experience includes part-time or full-time positions as an Adjunct Instructor at a number of institutions in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois. Ms. Panser also served as an Instructor in Epidemiology at Mayo Medical School and worked as an Epidemiologist and Clinical Epidemiologist in the Department of Health Sciences Research at the Mayo Clinic. For a number of years, she worked independently as a consulting epidemiologist and ethics coach in Rochester, Minnesota. Currently, Laurel Panser teaches part time as an Adjunct Instructor at Riverland Community College in Austin, Minnesota.
Laurel Panser possesses skills in designing sampling methodology and databases, conducting database analysis, developing instruments, and writing reports, presentations, and survey studies, among other areas. Her research grant awards range from $3,000 to $35,000, and she collaborated on numerous peer-reviewed articles published in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Medical Hypotheses, and other professional publications. Other writing accomplishments include contributions to numerous letters, abstracts, and editorials. In addition, Laurel Panser cowrote a chapter in the book Client/Server Computing with the SAS System: Tips & Techniques.
At age 12, Robert Nolan left the United States with his family for the jungle in Nicaragua’s Miskito Coast where he grew up. When the Soviet / Cuban-backed Sandinistas overthrew the country, Mr. Nolan and family were captured and accused of being spies for the USA. With the aid of the Miskito Indians the family escaped and ran for the next 9 days to Honduras where they found sanctuary at a Red Cross camp that had been erected for all of the fleeing Nicaraguan refugees. They then returned to the United States. In 1983, he joined the United States Navy and served for 9 years, taking part in the Persian Gulf War and in operations in Libya. In 1988 he was named Sailor of the Year for the USS America, CV-66, the nation’s flagship aircraft carrier. Robert Nolan is a certified flight instructor and is a test pilot, in 2006, he was a performer in the US Navy’s air show at the Willow Grove Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Horsham Township, Pennsylvania. Mr. Nolan holds the unofficial world altitude record in a powered parachute by reaching an altitude of 28,840 feet.
Recognized for his magnetic personality and charisma, acclaimed hairstylist Kenneth Paves has worked with number of stars over his 17-year career, including Jennifer Lopez, Eva Longoria, Jessica and Ashlee Simpson, Eve, Megan Fox, Fergie, and Christina Applegate. Mr. Paves is a frequent collaborator with Oprah Winfrey, contributing to a number of The Oprah Winfrey Show makeover segments from 2003 through 2011.
A guest judge for the Miss America Pageant and on the Bravo reality show Shear Genius, Mr. Paves has appeared on a number of television programs, including The Bachelor, The Rachael Ray Show, The Marilyn Denis Show, and The Biggest Loser. Kenneth Paves’ work has been included in a number of domestic and international magazines, including Vogue, GQ, InStyle, Glamour, US Weekly, Celebrity Living, Life & Style Weekly, Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, and Marie Claire.
Kenneth Paves was named Hairdresser of the Decade by Spanish language magazine Para Todos in 2010 and received the 2008 Humanitarian of the Year award from Behind the Chair. Alongside Jessica Simpson, Mr. Paves has traveled and worked closely with Operation Smile, a nonprofit offering free surgeries to impoverished people with facial deformities. He also assisted in raising more than $2 million to support research on epidermolysis bullosa through Oprah’s Big Give in 2006. To learn more about Kenneth Paves and his work, visit www.kenpaves.com.
From her student days as a Bachelor of Science major in Bio-Medical Science with a minor in marketing to her present career as a professional promoting The Practice Partners at Fort Collins, Colorado, LauriPogreba-Littlewood has demonstrated how a passion for one’s career can ensure continued success. Having completed her highly-specialized studies at the sixth-largest university in the United States, LauriLittlewood has what it takes to build a culture of excellence unparalleled in her chosen field. With her extensive experience working with various medical professionals particularly neurologists, orthopedic surgeons, pain management specialists and PM&R physicians, Lauri Littlewood has been able to use her educational background and her inherent talent in order to bring about an improved way of life for those who have availed theMrs.elves of the therapeutic strategies and elements she has been marketing. In addition to having developed herself professionally by gaining Anesthesia Sales training at Baylor College of Medicine in Dallas, Texas, Lauri Littlewood also keeps abreast of the newest developments in her field by being a member of the Colorado Pain Association. Suffice it to say that Lauri Littlewood seeks to improve her skills and find out how much farther she can go in helping various medical professionals promote their own careers. Currently maintaining a photography website, Lauri Littlewood also spends her leisure time going horseback riding and doing pottery. Supporting Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the largest, most widely-known breast cancer organization in the country, Lauri Littlewood has also been supporting various organizations like Tavelli PTO and Bead for Life as a way of giving back for all the blessings she has been gifted with.
Established in 2004, Trackers Northwest provides an array of camping and tracking seminars for adults and youth, designed to foster love and respect for the great outdoors. Grownups can choose courses in anything from wildlife tracking and survival to boat-building and identification of wild edible plants. For teens, tweens, and children as young as pre-kindergarten, Trackers Northwest staff conducts after-school programs and summer camps.
Children and youth receive exposure to skills including archery, blacksmithing, tracking wild game, and building base camps. Other courses include paintball, kayaking, and “Ghost Detectives,” a shivery survey of the paranormal side of Portland history. Young participants need not leave the safety of the city, as Trackers Northwest’s nature center stands in the 140-acre Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge, less than five minutes from downtown. It provides an amazing clubhouse seemingly secluded from civilization, without any need for a road trip.
Staff members at Trackers Northwest make education fun by giving themselves names like “Deadpool,” “Mad Maude,” “Snake Eyes,” and “High Elf Queen.” Camps promise to train “Forest Ninjas,” as well as “Elves, Rangers, and Wizards.” For older children, the company also offers overnight trips to the San Juan Islands, a summer camp in the southern Oregon dunes, as well as visits to Sunset Bay State Park, Coos Bay, and the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport.
Founder Tony Deis brings the company more than a decade of experience in setting up outdoor education programs with such partners as Portland State University, the Audubon Society of Portland, and Metro Regional Parks and Green Spaces. A bonded and licensed outdoor guide service, Trackers Northwest also has provided workshops for employees of the U.S. Forest Service.
Deis enjoys a solid reputation as one of the finest wild game trackers and survival skills instructors in the Pacific Northwest. For Bay Area clients, Trackers Northwest operates spring and summer break camps in Oakland and Berkeley.
