St. Catherine's Support Circle--Career Support

One important key to success is self-confidence.  An important key to self-confidence is preparation. - Arthur Ashe

Our Background

The St. Catherine’s Support Circle is one of the faith-based missions of The Parish of St. Catherine of Siena and St. Agnes.  We were founded to help parishioners navigate the employment challenges of the 2009 recession.  We’ve evolved over the years and currently provide support programs for job seekers and encourage participation by both job seekers and those interested in providing their advice and support.

The SCSC steering committee includes professionals who have experience in diverse areas including human resources, executive search, career coaching, clinical career counseling, general management, education, marketing, public relations, finance, accounting and IT.  If you have similar experience, and would be interested in joining your fellow professionals on the committee, we welcome you to attend one of our monthly SCSC meetings to speak to one of our steering committee members.

Upcoming Meetings

AI in the Workplace: What to Expect
Zoom Presentation Thursday, April 16th, 7:00 to 8:15 PM

Join us in an interactive Zoom workshop to discuss AI in the Workplace, what is happening now, and where is AI going?

Our panelists include NYC Client Engineer at AI Cyber company Cytex, Emmett O’Connell, B.S. in Computer Science and Information Technology, MIT Sandbox R&D; and Executive Career Coach and former National Leader and Senior HR Executive at Big 4 firm and Fortune 50 firm, and current SCSC Steering Committee Member, Celeste Robledo.

Topics to be covered include:
● General overview of where AI impacts public and private workplaces.
● Current trends in AI and where it is going, generative vs. agentic AI.
● Moving fast and permeating everything, prepare where you can: Simple tasks, evolving into sophisticated and complex problem-solving.
● Detection, Remediation, Guardrails & Governance.
● Consider learning and experimenting with AI, “successful failures”

RSVP required. RSVP by Monday, April 9th to meeting chair Kathleen Martin Janssen at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. You’ll receive a meeting link prior to the meeting.

Participants are encouraged to ask questions ahead of presentation by sending to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., or can ask in the chat during presentation.