NYATEP13CNRW_Presentation

A Training Program forJob Search Success

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Career Navigator©

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.

Why Career

Navigator©?

• Referrals + Career Sites* + SoMe Recruiters >50%

*Career Sites defined as Company Websites

• Finding the “hidden job market”• 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.)

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

• 5 Full Days of Learning– Sets the pace, increases productivity

• Proactive vs. Reactive– Marketing Plan vs. Resume– Target Lists

InnovativeMechanics

• Participant Centered• Group Dynamics• Skill Building Exercises

InteractivePractice

Intensive

• Critically necessary skills and drills• Boot camp environment• Address the human side of job loss (EQ)• Team dynamics create support & confidence

Highly Qualified Facilitators

Hannah Morgan

Dan Howard

Deidre Dutcher

RochesterWorks Summary ReportAugust 2009 through June 2013

The Results

1711 ParticipantsAverage Age 51Average Income $58,997% Reporting Employment 40%Average Days to Employment 95Median Days to Employment 73

USDOL Bureau of Labor Statistics (Oct 2013)Average Days to Employment 255Median Days to Employment 118

GPS TEAMS

• 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.

GPS Team Certification• Run your own GPS

Teams• Use Create multiple

groups, specific focus groups

• Use our proven process and materials for success

OVER 2400 CN Graduates!

• RochesterWorks• Niagara County WorkSourceOne• Finger Lakes Works• CSS Workforce NY• WDI• Buffalo-Erie County• Dutchess County• Veterans• Bausch & Lomb• Sikorsky

Career NavigatorOne-Stop Collaboration

Overview…

• Background• RW Career Center Benefits• Enrollment Process - scalable• Search Teams – structure and benefits• Self-sustaining model

• 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”

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Background

• 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

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RW Benefits

• 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 pre-qualified candidates

• Other methods...

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Scalable Enrollment

• 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

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Search Teams

• Social Media “Graduate” promotion.• Linked In Group, Facebook, twitter integration.• Cost-benefit: especially as it relates to transferable

skills.

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Self-sustaining model

• Engagement of professional DW’s• Rapid time to appropriate employment for these

individuals• Higher rates of employment for these individuals and

the community

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Summary - Center Benefits

• 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

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