HCA has partnered with JA Worldwide to offer funding and volunteers to twelve selected JA offices across the United States. Junior Achievement of Chattanooga was selected and awarded $7,500 to conduct JA Careers with a Purpose at Lookout Valley High School with their 9th grade students during spring 2009. Parkridge Hospital is providing ten classroom volunteers to teach Mrs. Walker’s 5 social studies classes.
JA Careers with a Purpose introduces students to the importance of seeking careers to help them realize their potential and purpose. The program demonstrates the importance of positive values, life maxims,, and ethical decision-making within the context of career and life decisions. Parkridge volunteers will lead seven sessions at Lookout Valley High School encouraging them to stay in school and explore different career opportunities after high school graduation.
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Kevin Krause of BaxterKrause Retained Executive Recruiters spoke before the 2009 Spirit of Achievement Luncheon, presenting some interesting insight on Volkswagen’s upcoming presence in Chattanooga. His speech “How do you and your company fit into the ‘Changing Chattanooga’” offered excellent insights to the transformations a city makes when an automotive manufacturer comes to town.
Kevin is the founder and President of BaxterKrause Retained Executive Recruiters. He is an experienced business professional and entrepreneur with a talent for making personal connections and building top domestic and international business teams.
Kevin’s success is multi-national and multi-lingual. Fluent in German, Kevin lived, worked and was educated in Germany for over a decade. His unique perspective of German culture, language and customs has led BaxterKrause to be a preeminent recruiter for German companies both in the US and abroad.
Prior to establishing BaxterKrause, Kevin held several senior level positions in the automotive industry, as Director for Siemens Automotive, Freundenberg and Valeo Corporation. Besides helping to take a company public on the New York Exchange, Kevin also worked as a market consultant for German companies entering the US market during the major investment years. It was at this time Kevin realized the need companies had for acquiring quality executive talent if they were to become successful in a competitive global environment. He started BaxterKrause to fulfill the international demand.
Kevin holds a B.A. in Business from the University of Maryland, and a Diploma (MBA) from the Export Akademie Baden Wuertemburg in Germany.
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Bid on the Future 2009 was the most successful online/live auction in Junior Achievement of Chattanooga history! Thank you to everyone who came out to the event, our sponsors, and of course a special thanks to our bidders! Bid on the Future is a partnership between Hamilton Place and the Brainerd/East Brainerd Council of the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce, established to support Junior Achievement economic education programs in Brainerd and East Brainerd area schools. Over 60 bidders came out to Hamilton Place Comcast Court on Saturday, January 31, 2009 to place their bids, and invest in the future!
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Lookout Valley High School students participated in JA Job Shadow with AT&T on Tuesday, October 21, 2008. Twenty-three students from Mrs. Wilma Lockery’s Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) class were paired with AT&T employees.
The day began with a welcome to the students and volunteers from Dan Sparks of AT&T. Students and their volunteers toured the AT&T building on Martin Luther King Boulevard. After the tour students visited the volunteers’ desks to see where AT&T employees work while in the building. The students were also able to go out into the field with AT&T employees to work sites, and then returned to the AT&T building where lunch was provided by Mitch Collins of Chick-fil-A on Gunbarrel; followed by a debriefing session where the students wrote thank you notes to their AT&T volunteers. Thank you to Joey Borders who coordinated the AT&T/JA Job Shadow.
This opportunity was made possible to JA from a grant through the AT&T Foundation and JA Worldwide focusing on the JA Job Shadow initiative to reach 100,000 high school students over the next five years. The goals of the initiative are to decrease the high school drop out rates across the country, and to increase the talent pipeline for corporate America. We are grateful to be a part of this five year grant and look forward to working with AT&T in the future.
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