ROANOKE TIMES

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, May 21, 1995                   TAG: 9505230001
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-3   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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EMPLOYMENT COUNSELING SERVICES INC.

Owner: Kathryn Jordan

Location: 201 Church Street, Blacksburg

Phone: 552-AJOB (552-2562)

Hours of Operation: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.- 5 p.m., evenings and Saturday, by appointment

Products & Services: resume writing, access to online job advertisements, inclusion in online resume databases, career choice and interest assesments, interviewing skills training

Mission: To provide employment counseling services to all members of the community: those making midlife career changes, women reentering the workforce after raising children, college students looking for their first job and high school students trying to focus on career interests.

The owner: Jordan, who has a doctorate in counseling and student affairs from Virginia Tech, has lived in the New River Valley for 23 years. She has worked in the placement offices at Virginia Tech and Radford University and in an employment program with the Department of Social Services. Jordan, 48, is married to William Zuti, a professor at Radford, and has two daughters, Jennie Jebo, a sophomore at the College of William and Mary, and Emily Jebo, a junior at Radford High School.

Jordan said she decided to locate her business in Blacksburg "because I can see my career field is moving into computers." She says she "offers the latest of everything, plus individual attention."



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