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Local nonprofit gives job seekers a place to bloom
When COVID-19 hit, Bob Kolf turned a simple LinkedIn group into a powerful support network for job seekers. Now a 6,200-member nonprofit with a bestselling book, the Job Seekers Garden Club is helping people find more...
St. Louis Magazine
How the Job Seekers' Garden Club navigate career disruption
What started as a pandemic-era LinkedIn group has grown into a 6,000-member career community — and now, the Job Seekers’ Garden Club of St. Louis is sharing its most powerful stories in a new book designed to inspire anyone navigating career disruption.
Kay Quinn, KSDK
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A Locally grown job network
There’s no question that the COVID-19 pandemic has had resounding impacts on the job market that continue to ripple to this very day. That’s why Bob Kolf founded Job Seekers’ Garden Club of St. Louis in 2020 to help St. Louis area workers find employment again after the wave of job layoffs that took place...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Local networking group helps St. Louis job-seekers find...
The Job Seekers Garden Club is sort of the nonprofit arm of RockIt, Kolf said, but other recruiters and companies have since tapped into the network. It has its charitable certification from the IRS and is run by volunteers, many of whom offer free mentoring help to job seekers.
St. Louis Review
Ascension parishioner forms nonprofit
Hear how founder, Bob Kolf, formed the Job Seekers’ Garden Club of St. Louis, a nonprofit offering hope to job seekers. Kolf started the group last March to help people who are looking for work, especially those who lost jobs because of the COVID-19 pandemic.