Get More Done with Less: A Team Approach to Delivering Results for Career Centers and Jobseekers
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The Career Navigator program is designed to assist job seekers, including professionals, veterans, and career changers, in finding employment quickly through a structured approach that includes marketing, networking, and emotional intelligence components. Participants receive intensive training over five days, focusing on practical skills, mock interviews, and group support, resulting in a significantly reduced average time to reemployment. The program aims to engage 'disconnected' workers, utilizing technology for efficient processes and promoting sustained networking opportunities.
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- 1. Career © Navigator A Training Program for Job Search Success [email protected] 585-330-6135 Watch the video at our website: CareerNavigatorProgram.com
- 2. Who is the ideal Career Navigator© Candidate? Job Seekers who: • Want to find a job quickly or, • Are motivated to look for work. • Have a solid work history or, • Are ready and able to take a job. • Do not need, want or qualify for additional types of training or, • Have completed training. • Professionals, veterans, graduates, career changers, dislocated workers.
- 4. Why Career Navigator©? • Referrals + Career Sites* + SoMe Recruiters >50% *Career Sites defined as Company Websites • Mid-sized companies added 2 million workers in the last 2 years. (Businesses with sales between $10 million and a billion dollars annually: factories, construction companies, professional services.)
- 5. What is Career Navigator©? Our multi-dimensional approach incorporates • Mechanics – Marketing Plan, Social Media, Networking, Interviewing, STAR Stories, Resume • Practice – Daily presentations, mock interviewing, speed networking, repetition • EQ – Dealing with job loss, managing relationships at home, successfully transitioning into new employment, lifetime career management
- 6. • 5 Full Days of Learning – Sets the pace, increases productivity • Proactive vs. Reactive – Marketing Plan vs. Resume – Target Lists
- 7. • Participant Centered • Group Dynamics • Skill Building Exercises
- 8. • • • • Critically necessary skills and drills Boot camp environment Address the human side of job loss (EQ) Team dynamics create support & confidence
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- 11. The Results RochesterWorks Summary Report August 2009 through June 2013 1711 Participants Average Age Average Income % Reporting Employment Average Days to Employment Median Days to Employment 51 $58,997 40% 95 73 USDOL Bureau of Labor Statistics (Oct 2013) Average Days to Employment 255 Median Days to Employment 118
- 12. GPS Team Certification • Run your own GPS Teams • Use Create multiple groups, specific focus groups • Use our proven process and materials for success • Highly structured Team process creates activity, accountability, motivation, results! • Maintains group cohesiveness. • Over 1,700 LinkedIn CN Group members provide continued support and networking opportunities.
- 13. • • • • • • • • • • RochesterWorks Niagara County WorkSourceOne Finger Lakes Works CSS Workforce NY WDI Buffalo-Erie County Dutchess County Veterans Bausch & Lomb Sikorsky
- 14. • • • • • Background RW Career Center Benefits Enrollment Process - scalable Search Teams – structure and benefits Self-sustaining model
- 15. • • • • Piloted during the WIRED grant Now largely self-sustaining for over four years Funded as a Short-term Prevocational Service Found on ETPL under “Career Navigator”
- 16. • Engaging “disconnected” DW’s • Rapid time-to-reemployment (65 days vs. 35+ weeks) • Reduction in exiting while receiving UI #’s • ED by re-employment and appropriate employment of these individuals
- 17. • Our goal – reduce barriers to participation, use technology to reduce staffing expense, engage professional DW’s. • Process: Social Media promotion > self-application > Electronic pre-screening > enrollment of prequalified candidates • Other methods...
- 18. • • • • • Weekly Accountability Group Cohort Model Staff-directed > Self-directed Cross-referral to other center services Time-to-reemployment 2/3 that of training without Search Teams
- 19. • Social Media “Graduate” promotion. • Linked In Group, Facebook, twitter integration. • Cost-benefit: especially as it relates to transferable skills.
- 20. • Engagement of professional DW’s • Rapid time to appropriate employment for these individuals • Higher rates of employment for these individuals and the community
- 21. • I am leaving out a lot of the details that we have learned through “the school of hard knocks” so… • If you have any questions about implementation at your site, now or after today, please ask! • Todd Sloane, Career Services Advisor, RochesterWorks!, [email protected], 585.262.7527
- 22. How to Contact Career Navigator© [email protected] 585-330-6135 Watch the video at our website: CareerNavigatorProgram.com