How to Help with Your Community’s Workforce Recovery (2 Part Series)
Date/TimeDate(s) - 02/05/2013
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
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Online
If you asked the people in your community what comes to mind when they think of your library, many might say “a resource for our community.” What better resource could you be than for those who have recently (or not so recently) been laid off – or for those who fear they soon will be?
Session # 1 – Laid off – those dreaded words. Those of us who are employed can only imagine the fear and frustration that must face the many people who have lost their jobs and haven’t been able to secure another position. But what can we do? Most of us don’t have jobs available for them even if they have a perfect resume. But here’s the catch – most of them don’t have even a close-to-perfect resume – and some have no idea where to start. If they do have a resume, there’s a good chance they think they can sit in front of a computer screen, submit dozens of resumes, and a job will magically appear. Employment experts are estimating that as many as 80% of the jobs being found during the downturn in our economy are found through networking, not through plastering your resume all over town, and that includes “cybertown”…
In this first session of the How to Help with Your Community’s Workforce Recovery series, we will discuss what needs to be on a resume and what you should get rid of – now! We will also delve into how you go about networking – what is it? Why is it so important today? How does my personality affect my inclination to network?
Perhaps there are other groups in your community who are already offering bits of this information to the unemployed. But we all need to keep our resumes up-to-date, no matter what our job status is. And it sure never hurts to learn a few new tricks of the trade when it comes to networking. You’ll find this session not only helpful to your library, but also helpful to you or someone you know who may need this information in the future.
In Session #2 of How to Help with Your Community’s Workforce Recovery, our focus will again center on what we can do as a community resource to help those who are unemployed. We will discuss what resources we already have in our libraries that might benefit those looking for jobs, as well as what “out-of-the-box” thinking might contribute to helping others become employed.
We’ll brainstorm together to come up with ways we can partner with others in our communities to reach out and provide job-seekers with every available tool to aid them in their search.
We’ll delve deeply into how to handle the result of a good resume – the interview. We will discuss what to include in our answers as well as what not to share. We will learn the “best” way to answer one of the most common interview questions: “So tell me a little bit about yourself.” What would you say to that question? Would you tell the interviewer that you’ve been married 14 times and have 31 kids? Would you tell them you’re just looking for a job to pay the bills? Of course not! Yet you would be surprised at what slips out if we haven’t prepared a professional answer to this question (hopefully we don’t have to worry about the part about being married 14 timesJ). This will be your chance to polish your answers to some thought-provoking questions – instead of waiting until you are in front of the interviewer to come up with those answers! Then you can take this information and share it with your patrons to help them feel more comfortable in an interview.
Please Note: When you sign up for this webinar series, you will be registered for both dates -2-5-13 and 2-19-13
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