Alberni Valley Employment Centre
"Building a brighter future"
Workshop Overviews
SUCCESSFUL JOB SEARCH TECHNIQUES
This comprehensive 5-day workshop covers all the skills and techniques you need to conduct a winning job search!
Topics include:
- A look at "where the jobs are"
- Building your employer contacts through networking
- Accessing the "Hidden Job Market"
- Highlighting your transferable skills
- Developing a dynamic resume
- Building your career portfolio
- Acing the job application form
- Creating effective cover letters
- Communicating the best of "you"
- Preparing for job-related interviews and practicing through role-play
SOLVING THE JOB SEARCH PUZZLE: RESUMÉ WORKSHOP
This one day resumé workshop is designed to help you create a sales tool that is designed to market you and your skills to the employer.
This workshop will help you:
- Identify your marketable skills, values and attributes to include on your resumé
- Learn that the purpose of the resumé is to help you get an interview
- Learn about the contents of a resumé and which style of resumé will market you best
- Compile a resumé worksheet and work on the finished product
SOLVING THE JOB SEARCH PUZZLE: INTERVIEW WORKSHOP
This one-day workshop will help you understand what to do -- and what NOT to do -- during a job interview.
Objectives include:
- First impressions and appearances
- Non-verbal and verbal communication
- Preparing for the interview
- Expressing yourself well and listening attentively
- What not to say at the interview
- Reasons why applicants do not get hired
- The importance of attitude
- Appropriate and inappropriate questions/responses
- Appropriate closure
SOLVING THE JOB SEARCH PUZZLE: COVER LETTER WORKSHOP
This three-hour workshop will explore how to create dynamic cover letters.
Objectives include:
- Explore contents of a cover letter and the purpose of each section
- Learn proper business-letter formatting
- Discover how to match your qualifications to the employer's requirements
- Learn how to analyze a job ad
- ...and more!
CAPS, COPES, & COPS CAREER ASSESSMENT WORKSHOP
A five-hour workshop to help you assess your interests, values and abilities to help you better understand yourself and where your strengths will best fit with different occupational areas.
- "Interests" identifies and prioritizes fields of interests and preferred working conditions.
- "Values" identifies and ranks core values, physical work settings, level of responsibility, and salary.
- "Abilities" identifies strengths and challenges according to competence and preference.
This workshop will help you identify suitable and realistic employment goals.
CAREER CRUISING
This one day workshop will provide an overview of a new and innovative career exploration resource.
Objectives include:
- A tour of Career Cruising, an online, interactive career resource
- Exploring the online assessment tools and detailed occupation profiles
- Cruising through comprehensive post-secondary education information
- Learning how this resource can help you move through career exploration and planning
Funded in whole or part through the Canada-British Columbia Labour Market Development Agreement.