H.O.P.E. (Helping Ourselves Prepare for Employment) Workshops

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Overview:

 

The Ex-offenders Employment: Finding a job with a felony Workshop provides emphases on building self-esteem, employability skills, job search techniques, and career exploration, resumes, interviewing and job success skills. The workshop is designed to teach job seekers on how to obtain and sustain employment. This is being created to provide a guide to felons trying to find a job. With the monumental barriers convicted felons face when trying to find work, I feel that this workshop might be able to ease their re-entry process. It’s already hard enough to find a job with a clean record, and finding a job with a felony may seem like an impossible task.

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From Prison to a Paycheck and beyond Workshop:

 

This workshop explores some of the intellectual behavioral patterns keeping ex-offenders from finding success in today's market. The workshop is an employment-centered program intended to address the needs of ex-offenders returning to communities. Employment is a critical stabilizing factor for ex-offenders and this initiative will stress job placement in in-demand industries such as “green” jobs, job retention, and increasing the earning potential of ex-offenders.

• Workshop to assist individuals with a criminal record in searching for employment.

• Job Tips for Ex-Offenders: Job search and interview tips specially targeted to ex-offenders.

• What to write on job applications.

• How to answer difficult questions during job interview.

• Job Search by Phone

• What kind of jobs are ex-offenders most likely to get

• Job Search Smarter, Not Harder

• Learn techniques and other workforce materials to shine during the initial 90 day probation period of a new job.

• Participants will learn how to judge their performance from an employer perspective and how to measure their own on the job performance.

• Improve Your “Soft Skills”

• Increase Your Job Retention

• Review of Top Interview Questions, Video Interviews, Interviewing Follow-up, Strategies

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SPIRIT OF SUCCESS Workshop:

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• Planning Your Career

• Job Search Smarter, Not Harder

  • Most people searching for work don't have an effective plan. In this session you will be able to plan your job search and schedule your week to be more effective.

• Workforce Preparation Skills

• Starting with a goal

• Entry Level Positions…What a new worker needs to know

• Dress for success

• Your attitude

• Developing a good work ethic

• Understanding employer’s expectations

• Preparing for the interview 

• Customer Service Skills

  • No matter what kind of job you have, you will be using customer service. Learn some basic tips on how to treat your customers well.

  • Providing prompt and courteous service

  • Managing customer requests and concerns

  • How to communicate with customers

  • Telephone etiquette

  • Handling problems and complaints

• Telephone Interviews

  • Employers are more and more conducting telephone interviews to screen potential employees before in-person interviews.

• Acing the Interview—Part I

  • In this session, the interview process will be reviewed from beginning to end.