On March 20th, Asian Fortune and Asian American Chamber of Commerce co-hosted their first Diversity Job Fair in 2014. The job fair was a success with over 15 employers and 400 job seekers in attendance. Employers who participated in the job fair included Maryland Live Casino, Fairfax County Sherif, State Farm, Farmers Insurance, Morgan Stanley, Premier Financials, Fairfax County Public …
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By: Nathan Strauss When Patricia Richie-Folks first saw an ad for an office manager in the Manassas Observer, she had no idea what she was going to be in for. As it would turn out, Asian Fortune, a free, English-language publication that serves the Asian-American populations in D.C., Virginia and Maryland, had placed the ad. Richie-Folks was hired shortly afterwards, …
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AF Adding a new Federal Column In March, AF will begin a new column, Asian Feds that will feature any federal agency’s work, history, fun events or tidbits about its AAPI employees. The very first story idea came from the Federal Aviation Administration. Dan Treadwell of FAA discovered some archival photos of the agency’s AAPIs in the vault of the National …
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By Dottie Tiejun Li, Editor-in-Chief December is always a time to look back on the year that’s receding into the mists of the past and to peer into the year that’s coming. That’s especially true this year at Asian Fortune. Asian Fortune lost its founder, publisher and guiding light this past year. When Jay Chen left us, suddenly and much …
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