LAKEWOOD (VINnews) — Renowned financial consultant Eli Fried, who has been tackling the Parnassah Crisis, posted a powerful message on LinkedIn, encouraging and inspiring people to do Chesed, get involved, and “think bigger”
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Fried wrote:
So, you don’t want to be an “askan”. I get it.
You can still be an osek btzarchei tzibbur b’emunah.
Nothing fancy or official, just get involved.
Do chesed.
Help someone out.
Or think bigger.
A small group of people single-handedly pulled off a major successful job networking event in Lakewood last week.
Check out Sam Berkovicz feed. Epic!
No $.
No agenda.
No organization.
Just coordinating koach hatzibur to help each other.
Join the osek btzarchei tzibbur movement.
Fried was referring to a networking event in Lakewood on Thursday, connecting job seekers with employers.
According to the Lakewood Scoop, the turnout was way beyond expectations. “We thought we’d have maybe 50 people show up,” an organizer said. “Instead, nearly 1,000 people came through last night.”
Organizers also offered free professional headshots to everyone who attended.
The results have apparently been pretty astounding.
Organizer Sam Berkovicz posted the following:
My phone is blowing up since Thursday evening.
Candidates thanking me for helping them get one step closer to an opportunity.
Companies looking to hire asking if I have someone for them.
Random people messaging me that they gained tremendous Chizuk from the event.
I even had people reach out from Miami, Denver, Chicago, and Monsey asking what I did so that they can copy it!!
The simple answer I gave and will continue to give is that I did (almost) nothing.
I posted a simple post on LinkedIn saying that the time has come to do something about the job crisis.
Many wonderful people reached out, asking how they can help.
We posted an ad about an upcoming job fair.
Some people were kind enough to share it on their LinkedIn or WhatsApp.
The rest is history.
I believe the success came because it was simple and sincere.
No agendas, no motives, no hock.
People are genuinely looking to help.
The Siyata Dishmaya was next level!!
I am proud to be part of a such a wonderful community and I would like to thank everyone who joined and help spread this.
IYH this will be a start to slowly but surely end the job crisis and we should all be matzliach in our jobs and parnassah.
People need skills to get well paying jobs. There easier it is for someone else to have the same skill means the easier you are to be replaced and the less money you’re going to make. While networking events are nice and can help people connect with others they can’t solve the basic economic problem of too few people with marketable skills.
In order to be marketable, one must have a basic education, and that includes a real high school education. For some reason, it has become the norm of our yeshivas to reduce secular education to the minimum (or less). If one’s secular education ended in elementary school, he will be an idiot for the rest of his life. These children nebach grow up unable to speak English properly (their Yiddish is pretty awful too unless you like Yinglish), unable to read anything beyond rudimentary English, without any knowledge of how the world operates or how to be financially prudent. Even his learning is not the same as an educated person (for example, try learning Sanhedrin daf 13 without any knowledge of astronomy). We have to tell our yeshivas that a solid secular yeshiva education enhances a student’s life, his ability to think and comprehend, AND his learning. It is not a contradiction to be educated and a frum Yid.
Davening and learning is usually a great way to be an askan.
Good, now include women in networking events.
All networking events.
A few points
1. It’s truly a miracle that most yidden are able to come home w money each week, it’s not obvious or a given.
2. Parnossoh is a wheel with ups and downs, so now for certain industries it’s down and that was the goal of this event
3. The amount needed by a reg frum family without fancy stuff is more than the salary of the top 10% of people in the u.s.
So if you are down now it’s nothing wrong w you, take anything as hishtadlus and the brochoh will come, no one is at the bottom or top forever hang in there
They pulled point number 2 not sure why
I think everyone should take care of first of his family kids and grandkids. Stop looking for honor in dinners from organizations that pocket the money by the founders. I as a multi millionaire where I made millions on life insurance policies support my family. I don’t attend any dinners and my neighbors or friends have no clue how much money I really have. They think I’m a regular guy. My real worth is not even known to my wife. I just buy her all her needs and finished.
The Jewish people don’t like confrontation or lawsuits and think that if they do the same thing they can’t criticize others for doing that ( such good boychicks) but they shouldn’t do those things and should call others out for doing it , I.e price gouging, bribery , hoarding money/ resources/ influence , nepotism’s