Workshops

Are you a Job Seeker or in Career transition? Come to these popular workshops to learn ways to jump start your search:

• Assess & Decide Your Fit™
  Assess yourself, decide your essential needs, then link those needs to the right questions to ask a potential employer enabling you to learn and Find Your Fit. This informal assessment will help you understand:
  • How you fit with a job (actual work)
  • How you fit with an employee group or team
  • How to get your personal needs met
  • What questions to ask a potential employer to determine if your needs will be met
• Self Discovery
  Conduct Interest Inventory Assessment; Helping Career Changers understand what they want to be when they grow up.
• Meyers-Briggs Assessment and Your Job Search
  Helping individuals understand their MBTI personality type and how to use it in career development.
• Getting Started: Marketing Yourself
  Learn ways to identify your strengths and effectively market yourself to employers. Topics include:
  • Personal characteristics & strengths
  • Networking
  • Informational interviewing
  • Resume and cover letter development
• Getting Started: Resume Development
  Learn how to build content and develop an effective resume that displays your brand plus matches prospective employers needs. Topics covered:
  • Building the right content for your resume
  • Types of resumes
  • Resume do’s and don’ts
  • Resources for resume development

  You will also get a chance to have your resume objectively critiqued.

• Getting Started: Job Search Strategies
  Learn how to search for employment in 2009. Topics include:
  • Using the internet
  • Networking offline & online
  • Informational interviewing
  • Industry/company research
  • Staffing agencies/recruiters
  • Exploring the hidden job market
  • And more!
• Interviewing Power – Become a S.T.A.R.
  Learn how to “be interviewed” AND learn how to “interview others” to find the best job fit for you. Topics include:
  • Traditional, behavioral and case interviewing formats
  • Interview response techniques
  • Interview questioning techniques
• Managing the Job Search Together
  Helping unemployed and spouses of unemployed work together to get through the hard times of unemployment plus create a career development action plan together.