Successful Job Search Techniques

This comprehensive 5-day workshop covers all the skills and techniques you need to conduct a winning job search!

Topics include:

• A look at "where the jobs are"
• Building your employer contacts through networking
• Accessing the "Hidden Job Market"
• Highlighting your transferable skills
• Developing a dynamic resume
• Building your career portfolio
• Acing the job application form
• Creating effective cover letters
• Communicating the best of "you"
• Preparing for job-related interviews and practicing through role-play

This one-day resumé workshop is designed to help you create a sales tool that is designed to market you and your skills to the employer.

This workshop will help you:

• Identify your marketable skills, values and attributes to include on your resumé
• Learn that the purpose of the resumé is to help you get an interview
• Learn about the contents of a resumé and which style of resumé will market you best
• Compile a resumé worksheet and work on the finished product

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This one-day workshop will help you understand what to do -- and what NOT to do -- during a job interview.

Objectives include:

• First impressions and appearances
• Non-verbal and verbal communication
• Preparing for the interview
• Expressing yourself well and listening attentively
• What not to say at the interview
• Reasons why applicants do not get hired
• The importance of attitude
• Appropriate and inappropriate questions/responses
• Appropriate closure

This three-hour workshop will explore how to create dynamic cover letters.

Objectives include:

• Explore contents of a cover letter and the purpose of each section
• Learn proper business-letter formatting
• Discover how to match your qualifications to the employer's requirements
• Learn how to analyze a job ad
• ...and more!

A five-hour workshop to help you assess your interests, values and abilities to help you better understand yourself and where your strengths will best fit with different occupational areas.

• "Interests" identifies and prioritizes fields of interests and preferred working conditions.
• "Values" identifies and ranks core values, physical work settings, level of responsibility, and salary.
• "Abilities" identifies strengths and challenges according to competence and preference.

This workshop will help you identify suitable and realistic employment goals.

This 2 hour workshop will provide an overview of a new and innovative career exploration resource.

Objectives include:

• A tour of Career Cruising, an online, interactive career resource
• Exploring the online assessment tools and detailed occupation profiles
• Cruising through comprehensive post-secondary education information
• Learning how this resource can help you move through career exploration and planning

Social Media & Your Job Search

This 2 hour workshop concentrates on providing the job seeker with information on Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, etc) and how it can be used effectively in a job search.

Objectives:

• Provide an overview of social media tools
• Address privacy concerns
• What & what not to post on your Social Media profiles

This 2 hour workshop provides useful information on dealing with stress in our every day lives.  Learn easy relaxation techniques and get information on nutrition & exercise that can help reduce stress.