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An entrepreneur starts with a dream to turn an idea into a thriving venture that meets your vision and satisfies your financial and lifestyle needs. How do you know whether you have what it takes to build a successful business?

Facilitated by Tom Drouin, a Certified Small Business Mentor from SCORE, join your peers in a discussion to explore the issues that are the cornerstones of a successful business start-up.

Meeting Room H, 2nd Floor

Registration required

The Small Business Development Center at College of DuPage discusses what it takes to open a business in Illinois, including picking a name, legal entities, funding, business plan components, risks, and rewards.

Meeting Room A, Lower Level.

Registration required.

Business and Career coach Vickie Austin highlights new and classic business books for busy executives, employees, and entrepreneurs. Don’t worry if you haven’t read the book!

This month's title: Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip and Dan Heath

In this interactive workshop, presented by Valante M. Grant founder of The By Design Network, you will learn about monetization criteria, determine what content meets eligibility requirements to earn income, identify multiple ways to make money, establish best practices, explore ways to attract your target audience, secure advertising dollars, and convert viewers to customers.

Meeting Room A, Lower Level.

Registration required.

Business and Career coach Vickie Austin highlights new and classic business books for busy executives, employees, and entrepreneurs. Don’t worry if you haven’t read the book!

This month's title: Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones by James Clear

Whether you are thinking about starting a business, in the process, or already an established entity, the Business Resource Center (BRC) can help you with every stage of your journey. Our vast business collection includes print and electronic business books, magazines, newspapers, databases, eLearning, as well as educational workshops, roundtables, meet up, and Biz Books Review.

Meeting Room H, 2nd Floor.

Registration required.

In this workshop, presented by the People’s Resource Center, job seekers will gain real-world interview advice from the viewpoint of a human resource manager by identifying priorities and areas of concern when interviewing a job candidate, distinguishing the qualities that make a job candidate stand-out on an interview, and learn how to answer difficult interview questions concerning job gaps, firing, etc.

Meeting Room H, 2nd Floor.

Registration required.

Business and Career coach Vickie Austin highlights new and classic business books for busy executives, employees, and entrepreneurs. Don’t worry if you haven’t read the book!

This month's title: Crush It!: Why NOW is the Time to Cash in on Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuk