The mission of CONNECTING PEOPLE is to provide a bridge of communication between individuals (primarily young professionals) seeking employment opportunities in the Roanoke and New River Valleys with individuals and firms with available opportunities.

This blog will provide helpful hints to job seekers, news and information on opportunities within the region, and it will provide a forum to share and connect with others.

Ultimately, by the creation of this connected community, coupled with spin-off events, more employment opportunities will be promoted to interested job seekers, more individuals will stay in the region after graduating college, and more people will move or return to the region. Per capita earnings will improve. Population growth will occur. More representation of the region at the state level will occur. The region will grow and prosper. This is the vision.

Subscribers and readers of the blog include: students, young professionals, government officials, friends, existing contacts, human resources professionals, headhunters, former students, etc.

NOTE FROM AUTHOR

I have been blessed with a gift to help people to connect with others in forming mutually beneficial relationships, especially as it relates to searching for employment and/or candidates by bridging generations that will influence people to focus more on addressing regional issues. Further, we are not given gifts for our own benefit, rather we should use our gifts to build up others. It is my intent that my gifts can be of service to members of the community in connecting to others to create mutually beneficial relationships.

Stuart Mease