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Title: JobSeeking and Employability Skills Job Search


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  • Job-Seeking and Employability Skills (Job Search)

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Performance Objective 1
  • Advantages and disadvantages of job search
    strategies

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Job Search Strategies
  • Classified ads and Internet job listings
  • Direct-mail campaigns, including e-mail
  • Job fairs
  • Job placement centers
  • Search consultants/recruiters

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Performance Objective 2
  • Define and describe the benefits of networking
  • Describe the four networking groups

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Networking
  • Meeting with people who are doing what the
    job-seeker wants to do

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Performance Objective 3
  • Define Informational interviewing
  • Describe the process of conducting an
    informational interview

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Informational Interview
  • A meeting that a job seeker sets up with a person
    who is knowledgeable about specific occupations,
    jobs, or employers

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Professional and Trade Associations
  • National Trade and Professional Associations
    Directory
  • Association Central - www.associationcentral.com

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Types of Information Provided by Associations
  • Copies of recent journals or newsletters
  • Contact information for local chapters
  • Published job lists
  • Job search information
  • Training and apprenticeship programs

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Steps in Setting Up an Informational Interview
  • Call a related association.
  • Ask for relevant information.
  • Ask for the name of a contact person.
  • Ask for a 15-minute interview.
  • Prepare for the interview.

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Types of networks
  • Personal relationships
  • Professional relationships
  • Organizational and community affiliations
  • Opportunistic networks
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