16 The Independent - The Herald
NORTON FROM PAGE 14
“What have I done for myself lately?” Throughout my career I have experienced exhilarating wins, and I have suffered crushing losses. And I have been everywhere in between. There have been times when I have forgotten about my book of records and achievements, and instead of looking on my past successes to motivate me, I found myself wrestling in slumps. A nd then, somewhere deep inside I would hear the voice of my mentor saying, go back and look at your binder. So, I would open it, read a few of them, or more if I was really in a deep slump, and get fired up again about who I am and what I have accomplished in this life personally and professionally. It really doesn’t matter if you are in sales, management, teaching, manufacturing, healthcare, or any other profession or volunteer position. My
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advice and encouragement is this, that you will create your own “Brag Book,” and that you will go back and read it often to help you stay motivated and to help drive your future success and contributions, and achieve your own goals and dreams. And remember, it may only start with one, but success begets success, and just as my mentor had confidence in me, I am confident that you too will fill your binder and your walls with all of your own rewards, awards, and recognitions. So how about you? Do you remember all the good and great things you have done in your life? Or do you need to be reminded of just how fantastic you really are? I would love to hear your story at gotonorton@gmail.com, and when we can remember that yesterday’s achievement is really tomorrow’s success, it really will be a better than good week.
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script room in southern California. My alma mater’s extension school offers a course I briefly considered. It’s called “Beginning Writing for the Half-Hour Spec I.” You “learn how to identify the unique spin shows put on their stories.” You learn how to spin on Wednesdays from 7 to 10 p.m., and it’s $570. I can tell you how to spin a situation comedy for free. Come up with some quirky characters who have quirky neighbors and quirky bosses. Be sure one of them says crude things, and one of them is stacked. No matter what anyone says, every third line gets a laugh,
Michael Norton is a resident of Castle Rock, the president of the Zig Ziglar Corporate Training Solutions Team, a strategic consultant and a business and personal coach.
Careers Help Wanted REWARDING WORK AND SOLID PAY FOR SKILLED TRADESPEOPLE AT RK. RK is hiring for sheetmetal, electricians, plumbers, pipefitters, ironworkers and welders. RK offers competitive wages and excellent benefits. 303.785.6827 | RKJobs@rkmi.com | rkmi.com/careers
provided by a laugh machine. “I went to see my doctor today. I asked him if I needed glasses.” “What did he say?” “He said, `You sure do. This is a bank.’ ” This is where the engineer comes in with a pre-recorded laugh. It’s intended for anyone who doesn’t know if the character was kidding or not. It’s the manipulative equivalent of multiple exclamation marks. Anyone who strings together exclamation marks gets deleted from my will. What do John The Baptist and Winnie The Pooh have in common? The same middle name. But seriously. Craig Marshall Smith is an artist, educator and Highlands Ranch resident. He can be reached at craigmarshallsmith@comcast.net.
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Are You Interested in Being a Real Estate Receptionist? Currently we are hiring for an “every other weekend” receptionist, hours are 9-4 in our Castle Pines office. Required will be basic computer skills, ability to answer multiple telephone lines and ability to learn industry specific software. Responsibilities will be general cleaning of office, misc. duties and support of our agents, as needed.
Please send your resume and cover letter to
Jan at jan@bhhspre.com Pay is based on experience.
Receptionist/Administrative Support Castle Pines Metropolitan District is looking for a Receptionist/Admin Support to provide a professional front desk presence and administrative support to District staff. Examples of duties: answer phones, greet visitors, sort incoming mail, assists with meeting preparation, miscellaneous filing, document scanning, spreadsheet data input and various other duties. Excellent communication, great attitude, organization, and computer skills required (Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook). This position is full-time and offers excellent benefits. Application deadline is May 21, 2018. The application and Benefits Summary may be found at castlepinesmetro.com. Please submit your application, resume and salary expectations to Carolyn Frainier @ cfrainier@castlepinesmetro.com. Castle Pines Metropolitan District is located at 5880 Country Club Drive, Castle Rock CO 80108.
Administrative Assistant Busy airport office needs full-time professional individual to answer phones and perform a variety of routine clerical and bookkeeping tasks. The ideal candidate communicates pleasantly and effectively, remains calm under pressure, is organized and able to prioritize tasks, is willing to learn and possesses a full range of skills and experience involving reception, accounts payable, general office and computers. Type/keyboard 50 wpm and transcribe from recorded dictation. Word processing & spreadsheet skills a must. Knowledge of Word, Excel, Access, Power Point and Publisher preferred. High School or equivalent with two-year general office experience required. $17.27 per hour with excellent benefits and 40l(k). Apply in person at the Arapahoe County Public Airport Authority, 7800 South Peoria Street, Englewood, CO 80112. EOE. For more details or a copy of our application for employment, go to www.centennialairport.com.
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Administrative Assistant 1 day a week Great Working Conditions $20/hour (303)790-2558 Caregiver/Companion
Seeking Senior Citizen to care for slightly disabled senior in Castle Rock home. Type of care includes personal, meal prep and assist with bathing Relaxed atmosphere approx 15-20 hours per week Prefer compassionate elderly person with CNA background Call or email Renee at 973-349-5182 renee.haak0116@outlook.com
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No Sales, no Investment, No Risk, Free training, Free website. Contact Susan at 303-6464171 or fill out form at www.wisechoice4u.com RN/LPN nurse(s) needed, PRN, PT or FT. Overnights-approx. 15 shifts open. One on one patient care. Northeast Parker/South Aurora. Family desperately trying to keep son at home vs. facility. Also day CNA help needed. Great job for all in a peaceful home– study time available for students, retired, empty nester, those seeking a slower pace, extra shift current job, etc. Call 303-646-3020 (leave a message if we are unavailable) or text 303-919-5339. Thank you. SOFTWARE Visa U.S.A. Inc., a Visa Inc. company, currently has openings in our Highlands Ranch, CO location for:
FT Certified Occupational Therapy Asst. (COTA) for the Flagler to Burlington areas along I-70. Salary competitive. Excellent benefits. Access to company vehicle or mileage reimbursement. Questions contact Tracy (719) 7752342, ext. 101. To apply for this position, please complete the Certified Application for Employment available on the East Central BOCES website www.ecboces.org under “Jobs”. EOE
303-566-4091
Personalized Learning Senior Software Engineer in Centennial, CO, 40 hrs./wk. Duties: Code, deploy, and support multitenant, highly available software components using a variety of open-source technologies. Ship a variety of products from small internal tools to large-scale Web Services used by small, medium, and large size educational institutions to enhance the day-to-day learning and teaching experience. Gather requirements, storyboard, and design functionality. Improve quality, advance standards, and handle issues. Improve and maintain internal monitoring, instrumentation, and overall visibility of our learning systems. Build unit tests, help with QA test scripts, and tie those into automated build instances. MIN. REQ: Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Engineering or foreign equivalent together with 7 years of experience in server side development using Core Java with any experience and working knowledge in all of the following: REST, micro services, Web Services, Spring Boot - SQL, noSQL (Cassandra, Couch Base, Mongo, etc.) - JUnit, Mockito, Jenkins, Maven, Git, Eclipse IDE or equivalent – design patterns, multi-threading, dependency injection - data structures, algorithms or trained models. Reply with resume to: NCS Pearson, Inc., attn.: Adithya Connerton, 5601 Green Valley Dr., Bloomington, MN 55437.
TECHNOLOGY Visa Technology & Operations, LLC, a Visa Inc. company, currently has openings in our Highlands Ranch, CO location for:
- Systems Administrators (Job# REF8896B) to provide systems and application support to core corporate IT Windows Server Platforms and applications like Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop for application and desktop virtualization. Build and develop automation solutions for manual tasks performed by the infrastructure support/administrators by using Powershell and other scripting technologies. - Sr. QA Engineers (Job# REF8957E) to be responsible for programming, testing, implementation, documentation, maintenance and support of systems application software.
- Senior Software Engineers (Job# REF8954N) responsible for analyzing and developing web applications. Design, develop, document, and implement new functionality, as well as enhancements, modifications, and corrections to existing software.
To apply, please reference Job#s above when mailing resume to: LJ, Visa, Inc., MS: M1-12 SW, 900 Metro Center Blvd., Foster City, CA 94404. EOE
To apply, please reference Job# above when mailing resume to: LJ, Visa, Inc., MS: M1-12 SW, 900 Metro Center Blvd., Foster City, CA 94404. EOE
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