Outplacement Division

Our staff is here to assist downsizing organizations in providing their staff with expert knowledge and guidance to prepare the most effective résumés and cover letters. In addition, to provide professional knowledge and direction to their staff in marketing themselves to land an interview, and to prepare them for the actual interview.

We will teach you to prepare an eye-catching résumé that will turn this...

I haven't had an interview in ages!

into this...

an interview!

Workshop Outline

1. Résumé and Cover Letter Preparation

   • Three types of résumés

   • Three important résumé fine points

   • Essential résumé elements

   • Three areas of the cover letter

    

2. Marketing Yourself

   • Career Transition Assistance and Special Selection Priority (For Government Employees)

   • Re-employment Priority List (RPL) (For Government Employees)

   • Employment Projections

   • How people get jobs

   • Who's hiring

   • Ten ways to find twenty employers

   • Find the person who has the power

   • Write a letter that will get read

   • Using the telephone

    

3. Create a Good Impression

   • First impressions make a statement

   • Appearance

   • Manners and Business Etiquette

   • A last-minute check list

   • The job application

   • Job application stumbling blocks

   • Checking your background

   • A practice application for employment

    

4. Ace the interview

   • Separating the winners from the losers

   • The interview

   • The first question most managers ask

   • The manager's worst fears

   • Psyching you out

   • Sell yourself

   • Questions to expect

   • Questions to ask

   • The stress interview

   • Your final evaluation

    

5. Follow-up after the interview

   • Set yourself apart from the crowd

   • Send a thank-you note

   • Follow-up on the telephone

   • Above and beyond the call

   • A follow-up telephone script

   • The second interview

    

6. Job Hunting Blunders

   • Avoid simple, but major job hunting blunders

    

7. Your Appointment Schedule

   • Make a chronological appointment schedule

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