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Job Readiness Assistance and Job Search

Employablility skills are taught through out the program and encompuss good work habits/attitudes, work experience, resume writing, interview techniques, and job search strategies so that the particpant will find success when searching for employment.

Work Experience

Participants are placed at an internship site in order to gain hands on work related experience. This allows the participant to relate received training to the workplace and to address any workplace problems that might impact the participants success at employment. Every effort is made to ensure that the internship site correlates to the participant's career path and the training being learned in the classroom.

"Before anything else, getting ready is the secret to success."

Henry Ford

Resume Writing

Your resume is a marketing tool, an advertisment, it convinces an employer that you have what it takes to do the job. HR Professionals and hiring managers spend an average of 10-30 seconds looking over a resume. Having a good resume can greatly improve your chances of landing the job.

Online Resume Builder

Create a professionalresume.

Interviewing Skills

Job interviewing is never easy. You are meeting new people, selling yourself and your skills, and often getting the third degree about what you know or don't know. Participants gain job interview tips, techniques, and advice to help prepare them to interview effectively. Proper preparation includes practicing how to answer tough questions, participating and critiqing mock interviews, and how to dress for success.

Practice interview skills with a realistic "simulated interview"experience.

Job Search

When job searching participants are given a daily schedule that outlines which employers will be visited for purposes of completing an application. Allied JOBS staff ensures that the student is dressed appropriately and has the proper documentation before beginning their search

"The secret of success inlife is for a man/womento be ready for the opportunity when it comes"

Benjamin Disraeli

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Job Readiness Assistance and Job Search