Brevard Business BBN News Vol. 3220 No. No. 48 1 DecemberJanuary 1, 7,2014 2002 $1.00 A Weekly Space $1.00Coast Business Magazine with PublishingA Weekly Roots Space in CoastAmerica Publication since 1839 MilitaryBrevard veteran Job Williams Link leads key Webster on M.I.; cybersecurity program Byresource Ken Datzman connecting MERRITT ISLAND — Lean, light–footed Aaron Williams came scooting through the long hallway of Websterfirms University and andinto the administration job office muchseekers like a second baseman, with his knees slightly bent, ready to scoop up a ground ball and throw to first base. access to America’s Job Bank and other By TheKen University Datzman of Central Florida graduate andemployment former Web sites, videos, career Knights second baseman in the mid–1980s is backguidebooks in the and an in–depth collection of stateThe he visibility calls home of. the Brevard Job Link periodicals, including “The Wall Street gotWilliams a big boost has in r 2001.elocated to the Space Coast fromJournal.” Fort LeonardThe continuing Wood, Mo., contraction where he was in thethe regional andThe campus centers also have computers directoreconomy, for a Websterlthough University,a rebound is covering expected a multi–statequippede with word–processing software, Midwestin 2002, focusedterritory. a He’s much settling brighter in at light his onnew job,fax just machines, in copiers, laser printers, and timethe importance as the school of introduces the organization its new and master’s degreetelephones in with long–distance access. A cybersecurityits mission in andthe county.a program targeting first respondersvideoconference in system is available, theThe community four full–service,. one–stop career which may be used for conducting centers“I’m pumped in Brevard up, very— from excited Palm about Bay being to here,interviews. especially withTitusville the launch — handled of these significantl two new programs.y It’s goingEmployers, to be said South, can provide great.increased This traffic, is where even I’ve catering always wanted to peopl toe be withthe Webster.” Job Link with its openings free of whoHe have was neverrecently had appointed a need to director tap thi ofs Webstercharge either online, by fax or phone, University’s Merritt Island Metropolitan campus, following resource before. visit one of the centers “or they can ask the retirement of Mandy Cosat at that site. Williams is also “It’s been a great year in that we have for a representative to come and see the interim director for the school’s Patrick Air Force Base locationbeen able. to get services out to people them at their place of business. We quickerIn the and local more market, efficiently St. Louis–based than ever Websterwould Universit like toy see every single job order in obefore,”ffers graduate said Linda degrees, South, targeting executive working professionalBrevards County to be in the Job Link whodirector are looking of the organization. to advance in Shetheir added, career “I fields.system, In addition so that we can rapidly match tothink Merritt a lot Island more peopleand Patrick have Air come Force to Base, theskill school sets. ha Ands if we don’t have the match aunderstand campus in Melbourne, the value of behind the rich Melbourne re- Squarewe’ll Mall. use the information to create sourcesWilliams that oversees are available enrollment, in the Brevardmarketing, andeducation other and training opportunities that areasJob Link of operation. centers, not “More only than from anything, a job– my responsibilitare responsivey to the need.” isseeker’s to provide standpoint a quality but education also from to students the on theBrevard graduate Job Link is funded through levelemployer’s at Webster standpoint. University,”” said Williams, whothe served Brevard in Development Workforce BBN photo — Adrienne B. Roth theThese U.S. Marine information–packed Corps and the U.S. centers Army for a Boardcombined Inc. 25 in Rockledge. It also has been The four full–service one–stop career centers of Brevard Job Link are seeing increased traffic. Linda South, years and is an education doctoral candidate atsuccessful the Univer in- winning competitive grants offer a variety of services to job seekers, executive director, said her organization is a rich resource for both the job seeker as well as the employer. sity of Missouri. businesses and the unemployed. For Michael Anderson is associate director. They are at the Melbourne site in Perimeter Center. instance,Along the there way, are he job earned referrals, an MBA Internet degree from PleaseEmbry see Brevard Job Link, page 18 Riddle Aeronautical University, and a bachelor of arts in public administration and a bachelor of science in liberal BBN photo — Adrienne B. Roth studies, both from UCF, which today has an enrollment of Aaron Williams, who served in the U.S. Marine Corp and the U.S. Army, has been named director at Webster University’s Merritt Island overWhat 60,000 students the. Social Securitycampus and plan interim director would of its Patrick Air Forcemean Base location. to He wasyou the regional and campus director at Webster’s Fort Leonard “When I attended UCF, there were roughly 18,000Nothing will happenWood facility immediately in Missouri. Williams holdsThe 16–member degrees from panelUCF, where unanimousl he oncey played second base for the Knights, and Embry Riddle students.By Mary Deibel This was in 1986. The baseball programsince competed President BushAeronautical isn’t expected University. to He’s at approvedthe Merritt Island these campus. options three weeks ago on the Division 3 level. UCF is now a Division 1 school for Scripps Howard Service make any recommendations to Congress to carry out Bush’s campaign pledge to athletics. At the time, UCF was just building its engineering until 2003, after the 2002 congressional let younger workers divert some of the facility. They have made great strides.” 32904 INC. AndHere’s so whathas Williams, to expect serving if Social his country in elections.uniform and NEWS, 6.2 percent payroll tax they owe on BUSINESS asSecurity an educator is changed in the so classroom that younger for the Reserve OfficeBasicr Social Security checks wouldBREVARD be wages to individual accounts that own Trainingworkers canProgram, invest or some ROTC, of their on college payrol campuses.l smaller He wa thans called for in currentPAID law. stocks and bonds. POSTAGE antax adjunct money professor in private at accounts, Indiana University as of PennsylvaniDependinga on market performance, US total Workers who opted to take part would President Bush’s Social Security Com- benefits from Social Security plusSTANDARD your choose from the five low–risk funds, one BREVARD PRESORTED mission proposed a few weeks ago. personal account could be higher or each for government bonds, corporate PRESORTED Please see Webster University, page 19 Current retirees and those nearing lower. bonds and a stocks–and–bonds mix, plus BUSINESS BUSINESS retirement — anyone 55 or older today The commission plans call for extra two stock–index funds that track the US — would get Society Security benefits as tax money of up to $71 billion a year and broader market. Workers could change POSTAGE promised under the present system. require other changes that could raise their choice once a year and couldn’t PAID Workers younger than 55 could put income or payroll taxes or raise the borrow or withdraw money. STANDARD money into a private account. GOP panel retirement age for future retirees. l PLAN 1. “Free Lunch” — lets NEWS, member and former Congressman Bill Social Security currently collects workers put 2 percentage points of their Frenzel calls the Bush Commission’s enough payroll tax to pay 100 percent of 6.2 percent payroll tax into a personal three–account alternatives the Free benefits through 2038 and 73 percent of account. Nothing else changes, and INC. Lunch, the Blue–Plate Special and the benefits thereafter if the system isn’t Subsidized Lunch. changed. 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