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Seal the Deal: Interviewing & Follow-Up

In this webinar, Monster will share insights on the interview process that military veterans can use to seal the deal and get the job. Participants will learn how to:

• Use online tools, such as Wordles, to research the company, industry and position in preparation for their interview
• Prepare for answering the tough questions civilian employers may ask
• Make a good impression at informational, behavioral and group interviews
• Stand out from the crowd at a job fair
• Ask for the Job
• Follow up after the interview (more...)
  

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Finding the Job: Job Search & Networking

Monster will show participants how to connect with over 600,000 veterans looking to mentor and provide transition guidance and referrals. Webinar participants will learn how to:

• Use online resources like Military.com and Monster.com to search for positions, save jobs, apply for jobs and view their application history
• Create a Monster Profile and manage resumes and cover letters
• Manage their digital footprint
• Harness the power of the Veteran Career Network to get ahead in their career
• Find ways to build and maintain a lasting network of career connections external to the military (more...)

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Standing Out From the Crowd: Resume Tips and Tricks

Having completed a military career, veterans have a unique set of skills and capabilities to showcase on their resumes. Those skills are desirable to civilian employers - if they clearly understand how the skills relate to their environment and requirements. Webinar participants will:

• Gain an understanding of how to include military experience, training, academic and vocational skills in their resume
• Identify civilian jobs that are similar to their military occupation utilizing a skills translator tool
• Learn which resume format works best for their experiences and why
• Identify the civilian terminology they should use as keywords to draw attention to their resume
• Understand the common “do’s” and “don’ts” to produce resumes that get results (more...)
  

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Successful Interviewing Strategies for the New, Competitive Workplace

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Implementing Innovative Strategies when Working with the TANF Population

This course will explore various needs of the TANF population and will present strategies and programming which can be developed to meet these needs. A sample program, which has effectively addressed internal and external customer requirements, will be introduced and utilization of productive approaches for further application will be discussed. (more...)

While new skills have been developed by people doing case management, the essential paradigm of case management hasn’t changed in decades. The very term case manager implies that the job seeker is some form of “case” that needs to be managed! How would you feel about being called a case and told that you needed to be managed? Some very good results come from traditional case management approaches, but if you reinvent the model a lot more can be accomplished. In traditional models case managers are teachers and job seekers are passive students supposedly absorbing what the teacher tells them and doing it. The problem is our job seekers don’t listen and don’t feel truly empowered by this process to make real change in their lives. After a session case managers often find themselves with longer to-do lists than their clients! Also, once clients leave your desk other people in their lives take over and these anti-work "case managers" often have more influence than you do and wipe out everything that was accomplished in the session. (more...)

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Is That Legal? The Difference Between Unlawful and Unethical Hiring Practices

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Get LinkedIn or Get Left Out

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On the Job Training is Back!

With the shift to Individual Training Accounts and during times of lower unemployment, employer-training subsidies became less needed, and some state and local workforce systems abandoned OJT. These workforce systems are now re-emphasizing and reinvigorating the OJT option to supplement classroom-training options. Systems are now positioning to respond to the rapidly emerging demand for “earn and learn” training strategies as a key component of job creation in a recession and as a route to recovery. (more...)

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Preparing the Nation's Workforce for Health Information Technology, aka Electronic Medical Records

The $20 billion in health information technology (HIT) stimulus funding, provided through ARRA to incentivize physician adoption of electronic health records (EHR), will create unprecedented demand for EHR systems in hundreds of thousands of healthcare providers. Meeting this demand, especially incumbent training, is a complex process, requiring expertise in a variety of highly specialized occupations. The Department of Health and Human Services and DOL has allocated over $750 million to ensure a qualified workforce will be prepared to transform 90% of all healthcare providers by 2014—a monumental change in the healthcare work process, impacting 16% of our total economy. (more...)

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Preparing the Nation's Workforce for Health Information Technology, aka Electronic Medical Records

This Webinar will  put the pieces of the HIT puzzle together in a way that will give you a good working knowledge of HIT’s impact on workforce development and show you how to:

• Develop and implement programming to address HIT’s impact on new, high-growth career opportunities for students, dislocated workers, and the retraining needs of incumbent healthcare workers.
• Improve your organization’s job placement rate.
• Increase your organization’s value to your community by showing you how to provide a platform for HIT stakeholder networking and collaboration.
• Access funding associated with HIT implementation.
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Social Media: Using Internet Technology to Improve Business Outcomes and Create Jobs

The ability to obtain information and resources online, in “real time,” provides the opportunity for state and local systems to capture and share information with the business community to enhance your image as the “premier workforce development” system. (more...)

E-Branding: Using Technology & Social Media to Enhance Your Workforce Investment Board’s Image & Expand Its Influence

Are you overwhelmed by the online marketing options and unsure where to start? Do you want to use your Web site to improve your workforce board’s public relations and attract more businesses and job candidates? Attend this webinar to build an eMarketing action plan to expand your market position while capitalizing on the power of web-based public relations. (more...)
 

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Improving Center Processes to Increase Training Access and Enrollments

The Recovery funds' emphasis on increasing the number of customers (including UI Claimants) in training, the reality of job-finding in a tough economy, and the emerging training focus of WIA reauthorization, means that Centers must begin to move more customers from the front desk, the resource area, and Reemployment Services into a vibrant skills development service track. Moving to a new skills and jobs organizational culture is imperative: work first doesn't work very well when there aren't many jobs! (more...)

Management Strategies to Redesign Your Program to Serve More Dislocated Workers with Better Results and Less Staff!

How to Hire the New Workforce Professional

Workforce development programs are often like the car mechanic with a car that doesn't run very well.  We are in the business of hiring, yet our own hiring practices are often antiquated and ineffective.  If you haven't completely overhauled your hiring process in the last two years you are hiring the workforce employee of the past and this is seriously hurting your organization. (more...)

How to Move from Placement to Partnership with Private Sector Businesses!

When a business hires from you what happens next?  Most workforce organizations have no well developed management plans to turn an initial relationship into a deep and far reaching joint venture partnership.  Learn how to move successfully from one stage to another in the partnership process so you get all the benefits that deep relationships with businesses have to offer. (more...)

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Dynamic Strategies for Communication:
Getting Their Attention and Keeping It

Urban Legends – we all know they’re not true. So why do some people believe them? Why can’t your message stick? This two-part workshop will help you in getting people to remember your message. You will walk away with six secrets to getting people to pay attention and remember your messages, for both writing and speaking. This is a fun workshop and you will enjoy the fast pace.

**Both sessions will be recorded so that if you are unable to attend both live sessions, you will have access to the recordings to view at your convenience.**

NAWDP Competency: Communication

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You Can Find the Needle in the Haystack!
Success with Job Development and Business Services in a Recessionary Economy!

If you work in job development or business services, or you manage people that do this work don’t miss this unique opportunity to learn how to work with businesses in these challenging times. Regardless of what type of job seekers you serve, what services you market to businesses or your level of expertise – if you are looking for the tricks of the trade that will enable you to work successfully with businesses in a recession - this workshop is for you. (more...)

SYEP is NOT a Four Letter Word

Let's admit it - when some of us first heard about the ARRA Summer Youth Program, our initial reaction was to run the other way! This workshop will discuss how the Kaiser Group met the challenges of summer youth programming head on, and will also highlight successes (and yes, failures, too) as well as lessons learned and ideas for future planning. Come prepared to share your own stories as well.

From Welfare to Work!
New Ways to Employment Success with
TANF Recipients

Welfare programs, to meet the changed populations that now make-up TANF, have tweaked their models and services and many are in need of an extreme make-over!  Today’s TANF recipient may demonstrate serious multi-layer barriers to employment and it will take more than a minor tune-up to find success.  (more...)

Youth Program Design Insights…Using Youths' Inherent Natures Against Them

Dick Gaither will explain how many youth-related program operators fight against the youths' inherent nature when designing a program instead of "going with the flow" and integrating the natural behaviors and tendencies of youth. This results in more frequent conflict, poor youth performance, and problems meeting program goals and objectives. Dick's youth program is designed to counter these problems. (more...)

Job Retention Strategies for Ex-Offenders

Successful re-entry employment programs work from the model of a strong prevention oriented strategy that is well integrated into every aspect of pre and post employment services - from orientation through job maintenance supports.  (more...)

From Pink Slip to Paycheck! Success with Dislocated Workers

These are challenging times with a growing number of dislocated workers with many issues coming to our system and programs. We are all looking to provide high quality services and in this compact workshop. (more...)

Managing Personal Stress While Working with Your Stressed Job Seekers

Even in the best of times, most would agree our jobs are filled with stress! With the current economic conditions bringing overwhelming numbers of customers to our centers, the resulting activity increase, and the increasing unemployment rates, stress and anxiety are even more rampant in our staff and our systems. (more...)

Helping Your TANF Customers Seek and Retain Employment

One of the challenges we face in working with our TANF customers is to better prepare them for work so that they gain and maintain employment that is both viable and self-sustaining. (more...)

Six Ways to Measure and Improve Business Customers Satisfaction

Regarded as a national expert in the field of workforce development, Larry Robbin can always be counted on to deliver the unexpected! Larry is sharing that workforce development professionals can now put customer satisfaction measures used by the private sector into their programs. (more...)

Relationship Reinforcement in the Workplace E-conference (4 workshops)

Building and maintaining productive relationships in any setting are just a challenge! And, improving workplace relationships are crucial to the success of any organization.

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TANF Best Practices for
Working with the Hardest-to-Serve

TANF policy and practice varies from state to state
out there are effective case management practices applicable to all. Working with the hardest to serve poses unique challenges.

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The Radar Approach to Job Retention for Youth!

Learn to shift your services to a retention emphasis and you can prevent many job loss problems. Today's working youth may be supervised by other youth who have even more barriers to employment than the person you are serving.

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Best Practices for TANF Engagement

Find more ways to engage your TANF customer to move closer to employment through this interactive workshop. Come with familiarity of your specific state requirements and come prepared to share your Best Practices to gain solutions to these challenges:

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Developing Effective Leaders for Organizational Greatness E-conference (3 workshops)

Talent Management is both a key to sustaining business in challenging times and reaching organizational greatness. This strategy packed series will use research and case studies to show how effective leaders do things differently and generate better results.

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Preparing Your Job Candidate
Customers for the “World of Work”

Preparing your job seeker for the world of work, assisting your job seeker to identify and market their most important skills, and overcoming the ten top issues that affect employment retention are the focus of this fast paced session.

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Primer for Reaching & Serving the Hard to Serve
(5 workshops)

New and experienced workforce development professionals require special skills and strategies to successfully connect and move customers with unique challenges, histories, and barriers to productive workplace behaviors.

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Motivational Counseling e-Series (5 sessions)

Many times a client is perceived as not wanting to work, but the reality is that the client does not feel empowered. This informative e-Series delivers practiced techniques to strip clients of excuses and empower them to move forward to find a job.

Working with the TANF Customer - Training for Outcomes (3 workshops)

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) provides assistance and work opportunities to families in need. It is an important job to help TANF recipients move towards self-sufficiency, to acquire work, to hold the job, and to move up a career and economic ladder.

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The Art of Customer Service (3 workshops)

Customer Service is more than a buyer - seller relationship.  It is how we differentiate ourselves from the competition, how we build loyal and ongoing relationships, how we expand our reputation, and how we take satisfaction in our work well done.

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Robert Knight
Julie Norman
Jim Nitz
Debbie Featherston

Involving the Business Community
(4 workshops)

An important element of the Workforce Development system is business and community involvement. This online synchronous learning conference will provide you with valuable information on how you – as a WIB staff or board member or a Business Services representative or manager...

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