Posts Tagged ‘On the Job’

Susan Barnett: bringing local news to CBS 3

As filed – without edits – last week for today’s edition of the Philadelphia Business Journal. YOUR LOCAL TV NEWS usually isn’t all that local. Anchors travel from market to market, like Susan Barnett did, geography be damned. She had worked in Miami, Pittsburgh, West Virginia and Champaign, Ill. But the new co-anchor of CBS [...]

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Rae Scott Jones: helping St. Joseph's keep up with the Scott-Joneses

As filed – without edits – for yesterday’s edition of the Philadelphia Business Journal. WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE are students in the supermarkets. That’s a healthy level of community involvement Rae Scott-Jones might tell you. Scott-Jones, who was named assistant vice president for government and community relations at St. Joseph’s University, has lived in [...]

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Janet DeArmond: demoted to the top of Customer Service Review

As filed – without edits – last week for today’s edition of the Philadelphia Business Journal. IN 1999, JANET DeARMOND FOUNDED Customer Service Review Inc., a consulting firm specializing in customer service training in Wayne. Somewhere after spending 14 years as the company’s president, she left. She’s back. “There was an opportunity. I know the [...]

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Chet Zoltak: the human resources feel eight hours closer to home

As filed – without edits – for today’s edition of the Philadelphia Business Journal. Chet Zoltak has taken on another time committment after the workday and still can’t believe he’s at his Philadelpia home so much. Zoltak, minted as president of the Philadelphia Human Resources Planning Society in November, spent 2005 commuting to a job [...]

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Denise Williams: the Philadelphia branch of Goodman Marketing Partners

As filed – without edits – last week for today’s edition of the Philadelphia Business Journal. Denise Williams has a brutal walk to her boss’s office. She is a one woman-office charged with launching East Coast operations for Goodman Marketing Partners, a direct marketing company in San Rafael, Calif., 20 miles north of San Francisco. [...]

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Stephanie Reyer: meeting old things for the first time, like Philadelphia and the Constitution

As filed last week for today’s edition of the Philadelphia Business Journal. If only Stephanie Reyer could find a good dry cleaner. The new director of exhibits at the National Constitution Center left a lifetime in New York and a career at the American Museum of Natural History in the city. “I’m the new kid [...]

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David Dinenberg: growing Grasso

As submitted for the Philadelphia Business Journal last week, unedited, for Friday’s edition. David Dinenberg made some big deals as a real estate broker. “But I was so unsatisfied,” said the new chief operating officer of Grasso Holdings, a full service real estate firm based in Philadelphia. It wasn’t for him. Uniting one company looking [...]

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Steve Emerson: from Alaska to New Jersey, for family

Interview and article prepared for the Philadelphia Business Journal, as filed last week, without edits, to run in Friday’s edition. Steve Emerson came back from Alaska almost a decade ago, and things are just starting to thaw now. Emerson Personnel Group, the staffing and recruiting firm that Emerson’s parents started in Cherry Hill, N.J. 38 [...]

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James Buysee: the Philadelphia office

Interview and article prepared for the Philadelphia Business Journal, as filed last week, without edits, to run in today’s edition. James T. Buysee is a one man regional office. Last year when he was being courted to head up North American operations for BMS, a reinsurance intermediary based in London, the subject of his moving [...]

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Perry Weinstock: doctoring across the river

Interview and article prepared for the Philadelphia Business Journal, as filed last week, without edits, to run in yesterday’s edition. His colleagues told him that a move from Philadelphia to New Jersey was a mistake. Ten years ago, though, Dr. Perry J. Weinstock made the move. He was recruited by Cooper University Hospital in Camden, [...]

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