Workshop: Work and Career Restarts: Developing a Plan to Get Back into the Workplace
- Overview:
For those out of the workforce for six months or more, reentering can be daunting. As the work landscape often changes, this can be particularly true for stay-at-home parents, caregivers, recent college grads, long-term unemployed, self-employed, on medical leave, veterans, and retirees. This workshop empowers participants to recognize the evolving job market and provides tailored support to identify their unique needs. By leveraging resources, attendees gain the tools and strategies needed to craft a personalized action plan to secure meaningful employment within a realistic time frame.
- Learning Outcomes:
Participants will be able to:
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- Identify and articulate why they have a gap in employment
- Clarify short-term and long-term goals
- Identify barriers to achieving those goals
- Receive resources to assist in achieving their goals
- Develop a personalized action plan for obtaining meaningful work
- Workshop Presenter
- Downloads:
- City of Chino Hills
- PowerPoint File
- Workshop Handout
- Information Flyer
- City of Chino Hills
- Related Handouts:
- Needs of the Unemployed
- Unemployed Resources
- Identifying Potential Survival Jobs
- Job Search Websites
- So How Do You Find and Get Your Dream Job?
- Different Types of Counselors
- Reaching Career Goals
- Start Your Own Business
- Understanding Labor Market Trends
- Informational Interview
- When Skills Are No Longer in Demand
- Life-long Learning Options
- Volunteer Interests
- Other In-House Handouts:
- The Journey
- Goal Setting in Academics
- Aligning Goals
- Purposeful Living
- Career Exploration Research Tools – consisting of:
- Setting Effective Goals
- One Step At a Time
- Rapidly-Changing World
- Understanding Labor Market Trends
- Decision Making Variables
- Organizational Cultural Fit
- Locus of Control
- Happenstance
- Difficult Choices
- Timeline
- Job Placement Resources
- Opportunity vs. Security
- Generalist vs Specialist
- CDDQ (Career Decision Making Difficulty Questionnaire)
- Hertzberg & Maslow
- Informational Interview
- When Skills Are No Longer in Demand
- Life-long Learning Options
- Care-giving Dilemmas
- Helpful Links:
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- Find Help:
- Local American Jobs Center (job search help)
- Need career help? – NCDA career practitioner search
- Path Forward – Non-profit helps caregiver parents return to the workplace
- AARP – Work & Jobs
- Video/Book: “The Sequel Career: How to Change Your Career without Starting Over”
- CalJOBS – EDD’s job search website
- Senior Community Employment Services Program – San Bernardino County
- Job Seekers with Criminal Convictions (Justice-involved)
- Rising Scholars Network – Justice Involved California Community College Students
- iRelaunch (Return to Work Programs)
- Career Development Theory Information:
- Find Help:
- Research Career Information:
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- Research Training Programs
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- Help Starting a Business:
- Miscellaneous:
- Related Articles:
- Explaining a Gap in Resume
- “Play Makes Us Human: When Work is Play”
- “Breaking Into Any Field Without Enough Experience”
- “How to Find Meaning in a Job That Isn’t Your ‘True Calling’”
- “Why making a backup plan may set you up to fail”
- “How To Get Through ‘The Cave’ To Your Dream Job”
- Slash Careers: “How to Create a Career without a Full-Time Job” (based on book below: “One Person/Multiple Careers”)
- Explaining a Gap in Resume
- Related Videos:
- Assessments:
- 4 Skills & 4 Steps to a Successful Career
- Success in the New Economy (2018 version)
- Sequel Careers (Changing careers without starting over)
- Entitlement Creed
- Why Changing Careers Is SO Hard (Importance of connecting and networking)
- How to Tell If This Company Suits Me
- Importance of Timing & Life Experience Drives Passion: The ‘Never Again’ Movement
- Slope of the Curve: Technology is Changing the World of Work
- Assessments:
- Related Books:
- Make Your Job a Calling
- Let Your Life Speak
- One Person/Multiple Careers: The Original Guide to the Slash Career
- 101 Weird Ways to Make Money: Cricket Farming, Repossessing Cars, and Other Jobs With Big Upside and Not Much Competition
- The Resilience Factor
- Career Errors
- Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work
- Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
- Make Your Job a Calling
Other In-House Workshops – Job Search Topics:
- Unemployed and Looking for Answers What they need: Information, Resources and Support
- Job Search Tips for Unique Populations (Unemployed, Over 40, Over Qualified, Disabled, Veterans, and Flawed Past)
- Networking Savvy Making the most of your personal, professional, and online connections
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