1. Arbitech. This hip server distributing, network equipment storing company earns a living by selling tier-one computers for low prices. What makes it the best place to work for the 68 employees? There’s an onsite gym with a certified trainer who teaches classes daily, catered lunches managed by a nutritionist, and a retreat every year for employees and their families to exotic locations like Puerto Vallarta, Vegas, and Palm Springs. Not to mention sponsored department trips that entail skiing, off roading, boating, and water sports.
2. Earthbound Media Group. This company offers strategic marketing and creative communications to their clients, and paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, car washes, discounts, and three day weekends to its employees. A ‘healthy lifestyle’ is the key factor to keeping employees happy, so extended lunch breaks are preferred and laptops are provided. If that’s not enough, the office is adorned with a Nintendo Wii and arcade.
3. Boost Mobile: Home to over 470 employees, Boost allows employees to bring their dogs to work with them, provides videogames (PacMan and Air Hockey) in the break room, and flat screens airing MTV, FUEL TV, and VH1 in the lobby for customer and employee enjoyment. The perks may make it fun, but the wall paintings make it stand out. The walls at Boost are covered by graffiti artist’s finest works.

Starting up a small business takes more careful thought and consideration that you originally thought. The SBDC can help you obtain licenses and permits for buildings, score a business loan from the bank, handle the IRS tax center in both English and Spanish, and even guide you through the financing process.  The staff is dedicated and trustworthy, guaranteed to provide confidential business and professional assistance. In terms of credibility, the SBDC is partnered with high profile businesses including Wells Fargo and CITD as well as a multitude of local businesses. They are also proudly associated with the Economic Workforce and Development program, the Rancho Santiago Community College District, and Fullerton California State University.

Before contacting the Small Business Development Center, you’ll want to have a good idea of what you have in mind for your business and where you want it to go. The SBDC can help you reach your goals, but only after you’ve established them.

If you’re serious about your studies and have some serious cash lying around, you might want to consider the Pepperdine University Irvine Graduate Campus. They offer a Fully Employed MBA for a light tuition fee of $68,275 (payment options are available). You can also chose to pursue an M.S. in Management and Leadership, a Bachelor’s Completion Program, earn an Executive MBA, or a Presidential and Key Executive MBA.

The not so serious, but still eager to achieve, can look into California State University Fullerton, where you can learn all you need to know about business and its counterparts. Other options include DeVry University – Irvine Center where part time or full time enrollment is available, or Westwood College of Technology which offers a variety of programs designed to prepare students for high-demand careers.

The organization takes a pro-business stance. They focus on infrastructure, workforce development, workforce housing, and economic development when advocating for businesses. Each key element has its own division of committees and advocates. There are various smaller organizations entwined within the committees of each division. For example, OCMoves is a partnership that advocates for Orange County transportation priorities, The Latino Educational Attainment Initiative (LEA) is a program designed to help Latino parents recognize the important of higher learning in Latino Neighborhoods, and BIZPAC is OCBC’s political action committte that supports candidates who promote the public policy agenda of the Orange County Business Council.  By taking on business issues of local, regional, and national importance, the OCBC helps unify business developments hence bringing forth a higher quality of life.  They represent businesses with over 250,000 Employees County wide and more than 2 million employees worldwide.

Orange County is also proudly associated with online job search sites such as Monster, Orange County One-Stop , Jobing.com, Vital Link, and Orange County Department of Education Jobs. They also host their own online website complete with job listings from various fields of work. If you still can’t find a job to your liking, check out job listings in the Los Angeles area. If you feel unprepared for a full time job in the real world, Orange County offers many career/life coaching opportunities that can help you prepare for a job. Among these programs are the Dale Carnegie Training course and YaMo Coaching.