Our group is created for:

• Career discoverers exploring their career calling
• Aspiring professionals launching new careers (obviously, when those careers have already been identified)
• Professionals (a) giving back to the community, (b) leading training and other activities to gain new experience, (c) taking advantages of our robust marketing and public relationships' services, and/or (d) looking for additional income
• Recruiters and employers performing their professional duties
• Everyone willing to improve technology and people's skills

Our group is an outreach of Career Network Ministry (CNM), the largest job seeker service provider in the Washington, DC metro area. HOTCOE stands for Hands-On Training & Career Opportunities for Everyone.

Our regular trainers are our graduates and/or volunteers. Our professional training is provided by:

• The Office of Business Development, a division of Virginia Institute of Technology (VIT), which is committed to bridging people's needs for meaningful employment and employer demands in business development, digital marketing, and human resources.
• Bskol Global Campus (Belarus), which serves our participants 24/7 online (HTML, Linkedin, MS Excel 2013, MS SharePoint, PMP, SEO, UX, WordPress).

Generous grants of International Club, a non-profit corporation in Washington, DC, regularly cover participants' expenses.

We have proudly helped hundreds of people to gain meaningful skills, knowledge and abilities, as well as to land dream jobs and to make existing ones better. Please check out our group Photos.

By the way, training pictures are a part of our marketing strategy (as well as our donors' and partners' requirement!) - please refrain from joining, if you are not comfortable with that feature.

We also explore opportunities to launch special training,

1. MS Project Pro Hands-On - please RSVP here
2. HTML5 Hands-On - please RSVP here
3. Web Design and CSS3 Hands-On - please RSVP here
4. Database Administration Hands-On (data warehousing, data integration, data mining) - please RSVP here
5. Your topic hands-on - please contact Ihar Irkho

Special thanks to activists of the Career Network Ministry, first of all, to Bob Korzeniewski, Dr. Mallard Owen, John Venable, and Mayumi Okada.

Make yourself at home - welcome to the HOTCOE Meetup!