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Success is Calling with TracFone and Dress for Success

Thank you TracFone for sponsoring this post and for the difference you’re making.

A few weeks ago I shared my memorable afternoon at the Dress for Success empowerment luncheon celebrating the Success is Calling program created in partnership with TracFone. Check out the post or watch the video above to see the difference they are making!

The Success is Calling program is designed to help women with employment and achieving economic independence. In addition to the program, which teaches interview skills and job placement support, TracFone empowers women with a new smartphone and a year of service. That is an amazing gift and tool to help these women prepare to enter the workforce and conquer the phone interview.

Don’t underestimate the importance of a phone or the phone interview! According to a recent survey conducted by TracFone, an interview candidate’s phone etiquette is increasingly critical to advancement in the interview process:*

  • First Impressions Stick: 85% of hiring managers and working professionals say that first impressions made via phone interviews follow the applicant through the entire interview process.
  • Confidence Counts: 82% of hiring managers use phone interviews to gauge a candidate’s confidence in their professional capabilities.
  • Phone Skills Are Essential: 82% of hiring managers say phone skills are key to landing and maintaining a job.

As one of America’s leading no-contract cellphone service providers, TracFone has not only raised funds, donated phones and service, this year they are expanding the program by offering it to twice as many women across the country.

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TracFone Empowers Women with Dress for Success

Thank you TracFone for sponsoring this post and for the difference you’re making.

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Last week, I joined two of my favorite mom/lifestyle bloggers Audrey McClelland and Vera Sweeney of Getting Gorgeous for an afternoon of empowerment luncheon. Celebrating the Success is Calling program which was created by TracFone and Dress for Success in 2015, the program is designed to help women with employment and navigate the critical first step – the phone interview.

As one of America’s leading no-contract cellphone service providers, TracFone not only has raised funds for the program, they also provide a major resource: a new smartphone and a year of service to support them as they prepare to enter the workplace.

Now in its second year, the program helps women achieve their personal and professional goals and

gives them resources, a cell phone and service as well as curriculum and guidance. 85% of HR managers and working professionals say that first impressions made via phone interviews follow the applicant through the entire interview process and 82% say that phone skills are key to not only landing a job, but also important in maintaining a sustainable career.*

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With our wonderful hosts, Audrey McClelland and Vera Sweeney

During the lunch we heard from several woman in the program share their experience. Not a dry eye in the audience hearing what these women had to overcome, mainly the roadblocks we put up for ourselves and the confidence and tools that this program gave them to be great.

The other thing I took away was that Dress for Success doesn’t just help women get into the workforce, but also women re-enter the workforceIn fact, Dress for Success also helps women with college educations who have had careers but stopped for any number of reasons, raise a family, take care of loved ones or otherwise, and feel their skill set has expired or are having issues finding a job.

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