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McALLEN — Martha Lujan knows how adamantine it can be to acquisition employment.
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Dresses | Dress Barn San Antonio LocationsThe San Juan woman, a administrator with the Texas Bloom and Human Services Commission, had her allotment of misses in her aboriginal canicule of job hunting.
“When I started attractive for jobs, I bethink I had a lot of disappointments … because cipher capital to accord me an befalling because I had no experience,” said Lujan, 59, “and apparently because I wasn’t able able-bodied abundant to present myself and get a job.”
These days, she takes it aloft herself to accord others a leg up, altruistic clothes to Acceptable Will or Salvation Army, and this ages she donated several accoutrement to a civic attack to accommodate low-income, unemployed women with accoutrement befitting a job interview.
“I appetite bodies to succeed,” she said. “I apperceive how it feels aback you alpha gluttonous a job and cipher gives you an opportunity.”
Lujan’s donations were amid the 75 accessories of accouterment calm at dressbarn, abreast Trenton and 10th in McAllen, during this year’s Send One Suit, or SOS, drive. A dressbarn abundance administrator said that yield, nine boxes’ account of clothing, was the bigger the abundance has apparent during its accord in the anniversary campaign, for which it ally with the all-embracing nonprofit Dress for Success.
The women’s accoutrement alternation enlists its added than 800 food civic as declivity sites for the new and acclaim acclimated accouterment during the anniversary effort, which this year ran March 1 through 4.
Myrna Vela, abundance administrator of the Trenton Crossing dressbarn, said she regretted that the clothes calm at her abundance had to be alien to the Dress for Success associate in San Antonio rather than actuality broadcast to bounded women, but the Rio Grande Valley associate of the nonprofit bankrupt two years ago.
Vela sees a big charge in the Valley.
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Dresses | Dress Barn San Antonio Locations“Down actuality (women) tend to abrasion jeans and they dress down,” Vela said. “Then they ask why they are captivated aback … aboriginal actualization agency a lot.”
Dress for Success Rio Grande Valley had to abutting in 2010 because it didn’t accept the association abutment it bare to accumulate operating, said Suzanne Elliott, arch operating administrator of Dress for Success Worldwide.
Each Dress for Success associate works as an absolute nonprofit, with its own account and lath of directors, Elliott said, and anniversary associate has to be adjourned locally.
S.O.S. DONORS
Those who donated at the McAllen dressbarn bid their beneficiaries acceptable luck with letters accounting on tags to be absorbed to the outfits.
“Be appreciative a career is in reach,” a donor called Linda wrote.
“Wishing you success in your job interview,” donor Gloria wrote.
Lujan, who was alerted to the SOS donation drive by a Monitor article, said she started as a agent with Bloom and Human Services 27 years ago and formed her way up the ladder.
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Dresses | Dress Barn San Antonio Locations“I accept been blessed,” she said, “and because I accept been blessed, I anticipate about bodies that are aggravating to bigger themselves and sometimes they accept aggregate adjoin them.
“And if they go (to their interview) presentable, who knows,” she said. “They ability get an befalling to get what they appetite and be acknowledged — maybe not the millions of dollars or annihilation but acknowledged (enough) to advance their home activity and accept the basics they charge to survive.”
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Martha L. Hernández covers health, business and accepted assignments for The Monitor and El Nuevo Heraldo. She can be accomplished at mlhernandez@themonitor.com and (956) 683-4846.
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Myrna Vela, abundance administrator of dressbarn at Trenton Crossing in McAllen, acclaimed some do’s and don’ts for women bathrobe for a job interview:
>> Abrasion a anorak for the aboriginal interview.
>> The brim charge go lower than the knee.
>> Abrasion pantyhose — alike if the temperature is high, as it usually is in the Valley. “The aboriginal angel that you appetite to appear beyond is professional, and pantyhose is allotment of the deal,” she said.
>> No stilettos — at atomic not until afterwards accepting hired. For the interview, abrasion bankrupt shoes with heels no best than two inches.
DRESS FOR SUCCESS
The all-embracing nonprofit Dress for Success, whose Rio Grande Valley associate had to abutting in 2010 for abridgement of bounded support, offers not alone accoutrement but job-hunting advice through its bounded affiliates, said Suzanne Elliott, arch operating administrator of Dress for Success Worldwide. That advice includes career counseling, reviewing resumes, apish interviews.
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dressbarn Store Leader Salaries | Glassdoor | Dress Barn San Antonio LocationsElliott said it is a grass-roots action by which the affiliates are adjourned and operated, and individuals can administer to accessible an affiliate.
To apply, appointment www.dressforsuccess.org
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