Job Readiness Workshops:

• Resumes for Results
• Creative Ways To Find Work
• So You Have an Interview, Now What?
• Larbour Market Information
• Workplace Communications
• Career Planning Workshop
• What is in Your Briefcase
• Essential Employment Skills
• Interviews With Impact
• Managing Change

RESUMES for Results - 4 Part Workshop

Part 1 (3 hrs)
Discover your Skills & Resume Information
- Identify and evaluate transferrable skills
- Construct set of skills relating to your field
- Apply these skills relating to your field
- Style and format materials provided

Part 2 (3hrs)
Put It Together
- Review/ instruction of cover letter infromation
- Critique of format/composition of reume and cover letter by facilitator
- Completion of draft copy of resume and cover letter
- Intro to WINWAY Resume progam

Part 3 (3 hrs)
Make your Mark
- Learn how to focus your resume to specific job advertisements or fields of work

Part 4 (3 hrs)
Computer Resume
- Create a computer version of your handwritten resume and cover letter
- Learn how to edit and save your resume and cover letter to a disk (in a generic format for emailing purposes)

CREATIVE WAYS TO FIND WORK: (3 hrs.)

- Preparing for and maintaining your Job Search
- Where and How to find Jobs
- Networking/Making contacts; Cold Calls/Planning and Organizing/Follow-up
- Telephone Communications
- Video reviews of Networking/Job Search
- Practice and Role-playing - making contacts

We supply written information and use Group Activities and Videos to enhance the learning and comfort level of the information and techniques taught.

"So You Have an Interview, Now What?" - (3 hrs)

- Opening, managing and closing the Interview
- The Interview and communications (first impression)
- Interview questions and answers
- Formulating answers to difficult questions – own limitations/issues
- Role playing
- video - Do‘s and Don’ts of Interviewing

Labour Market Information (3 hrs)

- Conditions, operation of Labour Market and how it influences job choices / employment
- The new economy/new trends/new skill-management techniques
- Where the jobs are; identification of high, & low opportunity occupations
- Web-browsing - matching work, skills and LMI; skills, careers, related training / institutions

WORKPLACE COMMUNICATIONS (3.0 hours)

Exploration/awareness of effective communications in the workplace:
- Recognizing your own behaviour/role in dealing effectively with difficult situations
- Recognizing disadvantages of averting problems or dealing with them in a negative way.
- Knowing the importance of understanding yourself/others; taking responsibility
- Developing basic communication skills/strategies to overcome issues in the
workplace; tools for Assertiveness, Conflict Resolution, and Problem Solving

Career Planning Workshop - 4 Part Workshop

You will have the opportunity to become more aware of your personal strengths, interests, abilities, work values and skills, as well as work preferences. In the Career Planning Workshop Series, you will become more knowledgeable about how education and employment trends in the workplace can help you make informed life/work decisions and create an action plan to reach your career goals.

What's in Your Briefcase (6 hrs)

Now that you have participated in the Opportunity Place Workshop/Activities, is your briefcase packed and ready with the tools you need to conduct an effective job search? This workshop will assist you in putting together the tools that best assist you in marketing yourself to employers.

Essential Employment Skills - 2 Part Workshop

* Participants must complete part 1 prior to registering for part 2.

Do you have the skills you need to enter in and progress in the world of work? Learn more about the personal skills, attitudes and behaviours that are needed to contribute productively in today's work environment.

Interviews with Impact (3 hrs)

Behavioural interviewing techniques and situational interview questions seek details on you past performance and abillities. This type of interview is being conducted more frequently than in the past. Are you preapred? How do you rate? Learn how to respond with confidence while effectively marketing your abilities.

MANAGING CHANGE (3 hours)

Information related to unemployment - change issues, change and stress sources, response to stressors, stress management tools, preparing for change (past, present, future). Positive strategies to cope with employment changes

Although all workshops are separate sessions, and can be attended as required, we strongly suggest participation in all, as information is closely linked from one to the other.

*** These workshops will be available only to those who have a well thought through return to work action plan.