Corps Seeks Businesswomen Mentors
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Wanted: retired businesswomen to advise their young counterparts on everything from record keeping to licenses to insurance.
As the Orange County office of the Service Corps of Retired Executives gets ready for Small Business Week June 1-7, its biggest need is for female counselors.
“Our generation of women really weren’t out in the workplace much,” said Betty J. Otte, a SCORE counselor who made the transition from teacher to small-business woman. “We were odd ducks.”
SCORE, sponsored by the U.S. Small Business Administration, provides more than 12,000 business counselors nationally to entrepreneurs and would-be entrepreneurs. About 60 operate out of SCORE’s Santa Ana office, but most are men.
The free counseling and mentoring services include weekly workshops on various topics, once-a-month all-day seminars on setting up businesses, and even advisory boards for businesses too small or new to have their own boards of directors.
SCORE’s local number: (714) 550-7369.
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E. Scott Reckard covers workplace issues for The Times. He can be reached at (714) 966-7407 and at [email protected]
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