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Career Advising
Career Advisors are available to meet with you for one-on-one job search assistance. Advisors are available daily. To speak with a Career Advisor, contact the CONNECT! Front desk.
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Real-Time Networking
Practice your networking skills and grow your network at the same time. Meet with other job seekers to network in small groups and ask for advice, information, and referrals. |
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Planning Your Job Search
Job searching can be overwhelming. Learn how to create an effective plan to keep you focused and on the right track to your next job.
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Managing Change
An interactive workshop to help you move through the stress and uncertainty created by job loss. Learn how to work through your emotions, launch an effective job search, and explore what’s next for you.
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CONNECT! Library Orientation
Learn about CONNECT! library resources and services. Tour the library and see a demo of business databases that are available to assist you with your career and business research.
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Discover You
Interactive workshop to help you explore your interests, values and brainstorm career options.
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Who Am I?
A survey of available career assessment tools to help individuals define their skills, interests, values, and personality and then apply this information to career decisions. |
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Career Assessment
Take career assessment tools to identify your skills, interests, values, and personality. Then participate in an interactive workshop to interpret the results. Talk to a career advisor for more information.
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| Information Gathering |
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Career Exploration
Learn how to gather information about career options, develop an understanding of how to access the latest career information resources, and discover the value of career exploration in making smart and informed career decisions.
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| Résumés & Applications |
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Résumé Facts
Learn the answers to the most common résumé questions including: what goes on the résumé, do I need to customize my résumé, what are the best ways to organize my information and is a cover letter necessary?
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Résumé Critique
Come have a career advisor review your résumé and provide you with information, ideas, and assistance in creating your résumé. This service is offered during career advising appointments. |
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Job Applications
If your job search includes filling out applications (and most jobs do at some point), learn how to not screen yourself out. Discover how to successfully address legal issues and sticky questions.
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| Job-Search Strategies |
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How to Find Job Leads
The more exposure you and your résumé have during the job search, the more likely you are to find a job. Come learn different ways to get known by people with the power to hire you.
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Networking
What is networking? How to introduce yourself? How to start and stop conversations? Come learn all of this and how to make attending networking events an effective job search tool. |
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Job Search Tips for the Mature Worker
Mature job seekers frequently have concerns that their age or number of years of experience may create obstacles in their job search. Learn how to identify age-friendly employers, age-neutralize your resume, and answer the tough interview questions. |
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LinkedIn 1
Learn the basics of LinkedIn including how to set up your profile and manage your account settings, add and remove connections and work with your inbox.
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LinkedIn 2
Learn how to use LinkedIn as a job search tool. Class will cover finding people, using groups, finding job postings, researching companies, using LinkedIn to prepare for interviews and understanding how employers are using LinkedIn.
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Informational Interviewing
Build your confidence requesting and conducting informational meetings with people who have the advice, information, referrals and possible job leads that you need.
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| Interviewing |
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Ace the Interview
The most simple interview questions can be the most difficult to answer. Learn how to handle questions about your salary requirements, your weaknesses, and your strengths. Discover effective, proven techniques to prepare you for tough job interviews.
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Interview Practice
Practice your interviewing skills with a partner. Prerequisite: Ace the Interview.
Each session will cover questions related to a different type of interview question, including:
– opening and closing the interview;
– PSRs;
– sandwiching negatives; and
– the salary screen. |
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Presenting Accomplishments
Add impact to your interviews by learning how to talk about your successes, highlight your strengths and to minimize your weaknesses by turning negatives into positives. |
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Behavior-Based Interviewing
"Tell me about a time when..." Prepare for tough questions asking how you handled specific situations in your past, including both successes and failures. Create your own job profile and practice responding to related questions.
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Negotiating the Offer
Discover what, other than money, is negotiable. How should you position yourself? What do you ask for first? Can you get a sign-on bonus? Get these questions answered, and practice negotiating with a partner.
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Professional Effectiveness
Classes feature practical, state-of-the-art techniques, interactive exercises, and immediately useful tools in the areas of communicating, team building, and problem solving. |
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| Computer-Skills Training |
You must be able to attend all sessions of these classes.
All of the Microsoft Office courses are fast paced and review the key tasks in Office applications. The intent of each course is to fill knowledge gaps and provide tips and shortcuts to promote productivity and efficiency. These courses are not intended for beginners, although a novice is welcome if comfortable with fast-paced instruction. |
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Introduction to Computers
Creating, editing, and formatting a résumé and cover letter and saving and retrieving your files. |
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Microsoft Access
Learn fundamental database concepts and the basics of using a relational database to create, edit, and modify tables, forms, and reports, and to create and run queries.
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Microsoft Excel
Worksheet fundamentals, editing, formatting, printing, charts, and calculations.
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Microsoft PowerPoint
Creating a presentation, adding and modifying slide text and templates, inserting information, and producing and printing a slide show.
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Microsoft Word
Editing, formatting templates, wizards, layouts, graphics, columns, and tables.
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| Professional Networking |
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ProMatch Orientation
Learn about ProMatch, a member-driven networking organization that provides connections and resources for professionals engaged in job search. |
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| Clean/Green Careers |
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Green Careers 101: Exploring the Opportunities |
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Green Careers: Engineering, Science, Technical & Mechanical
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Green Careers: Green Building, Energy Efficiency & Sustainable Design |
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Green Careers: Business, Enterprising, Law & Education |
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Should I Start A Business?
Learn the fundamentals of what it means to run your own business and local resources available to assist entrepreneurs. |
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Exploring Franchising
How to start a franchise and local resources available to assist entrepreneurs. |
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Mastering Your Money
Review the basics of a spending plan and the ins and outs of credit. |
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Disability Navigator
The Disability Navigator can provide guidance on benefit issues, workplace accommodations, disability disclosure, legal issues, and other programs and community-based organizations that can help leverage the job search of individuals with disabilities. Please see the front desk to schedule an appointment. |
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Community Work Incentive Coordinator
If you have questions about working and collecting SSI or SSDI, please call the Silicon Valley Independent Living Center at 408-894-9041 and ask to talk to the community work incentive coordinator. |
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Department of Rehabilitation Orientation
An overview of the services offered by Department of Rehabilitation and how to apply for services. |
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