Job Search Strategies & Techniques
Unless otherwise noted, all workshops will be at the Center. Your registration is complete upon the receipt of payment to the Center for Life Decisions, 3121 East Madison, Suite 209, Seattle, WA 98112. Timely payment is the only way to guarantee your registration and space for your desired workshop(s) and avoid last minute cancellations of workshops.
To view the Calendar of Workshops and Seminars, click here.
To register for a Workshop or Seminar, click here.
Please inquire about workshops of interest, even if they are not currently scheduled. They will be provided on a demand/as needed basis. Call The Center (206-325-9093) to register and have your name placed on a waiting list.
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search transition? Twice weekly ½ hour responses will be sent
to you of your and other subscriber job/career search questions.
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send a check along with your e-mail address to: The Center For
Life Decisions at 3121 East Madison Street, Suite 209, Seattle,
WA, 98112.
Fee: $50
per month for twice weekly, ½ hour reports sent to you via e-mail.
$10 per report for an e-mail print out of back issues.
$90 to obtain a month’s worth of 8 reports mailed, once per month.
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Networking: Cut Your Job Search Time in Half
The ideas and techniques in this workshop will assist you in using your time and resources more wisely. Learn networking ideas that fit your personality and style, develop habits that will better focus and target your efforts, demystify the job market, establish a structure for your job search campaign, gain immediately useful resources for your job search and much more. Call for information.
Location:
Center For Life Decisions
Time: 7-9:30pm
Cost: $39
Preregistration and prepayment required.
To Register: Call the Center at 206-325-9093,
or click here
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Financing Your Dreams Through Salary Negotiation
This workshop will help you do four things: determine, promote, negotiate and confirm your worth. We’ll help you develop a winning negotiation strategy that can literally turn dreams into reality. Call for information.
Location:
Center For Life Decisions
Time: 7-9:30pm
Cost: $39
Preregistration and prepayment required.
To Register: Call the Center at 206-325-9093,
or click here
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Games contain both fun and serious elements. We all know the serious elements of the interview—employers want to hire the right employees for their vacant positions, and potential employees want to present themselves so that they will be offered the preferred jobs. The serious and thorough strategy of preparation for the interview outlined in this workshop will make your participation in the game of interviewing more enjoyable. Call for information.
Length:
2 1/2 hours
Cost: $39
Preregistration and prepayment required.
To Register: Call the Center at 206-325-9093,
or click here
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Job Search Support Group - FREE
This support group assists you with two primary concerns of every job seeker: practical and successful job search strategies and techniques as well as emotional support and encouragement during the highs and lows encountered when seeking employment.
The support group is most effective providing support around three issues:
Networking for information,
job leads and interviews,
Resume preparation
and
Practice interviewing.
At each session participants are encouraged to bring at least one question around which the group can brainstorm and provide ideas that might help answer that question. The ideas, strategies, and techniques offered are only suggestions. Participants need not feel obligated to carry through on any or all of them. The suggestions are meant to provide each with a richer range of resources and choices for conducting your job search than would be available on your own, as well as increasing the probability of your job search success, in as short a time as possible.
The group provides a framework for accountability/personal responsibility - to keep you surely on the path leading toward obtaining that next job.
Location: Uptown Neighborhood Center, 157 Roy St, one block north and one block east of Larry’s Market on lower Queen Anne. For more specific directions contact - 206-684-4812, or see below. Sponsored by the Center For Life Decisions - spiritualityofwork.com, 206-325-9093.
HOW
TO GET TO THE UPTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER
The Center is in Uptown Queen Anne at the southeast corner of Roy St.
and Warren Ave. The street address is 157 Roy St. There is a sign at the
corner that says 157 Roy St. in big letters and Uptown Neighborhood Center
in small letters.
By bus:
Metro routes 1, 2, 8, 13, 15, 18, and 74.
By monorail:
Take the monorail from Westlake Center (downtown) to Seattle Center. Walk to the Northwest corner of the Seattle Center campus. Mercer Street is at the edge of campus. Walk one block north of Mercer St. to Roy St. The Center is at Roy St. and Warren Ave.
By car:
From north or south via I-5:
--get off at Mercer St. exit
--follow signs to Seattle Center
--go down Broad St. tunnel
--take first right onto Harrison
--right at 5th
--left at Roy
--left at Warren (just before Kinko's/Larry's Market)
From south or west Seattle via 99:
--get off at Mercer St. exit
--left at Westlake
--left at Valley
--go down Broad St. tunnel and see above
From downtown Seattle:
--go north on 4th Ave. past Denny Way to Broad St.
--right at Broad St.
--left at 5th
--left at Roy
--left at Warren (just before Kinko's/Larry's Market)
Parking
The Center has a small parking lot. Entrance to the lot is directly across Warren Ave. from the entrance to the underground parking garage at Larry’s Market.
Length:
1 1/2 hours
Cost: FREE
No registration necessary
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dates on Calendar
The workshop will not begin until 7:00 and there is no need to show up
early.
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Low Cost—High Results Resources and Ideas for the Job Search
In the job search, time is money. Do you know where to find the wealth of free and low-cost information that will assist you? This workshop will literally save you hours of frustration and searching on your own. What you’ll learn with this information will shorten your search while making it more productive and fun. Call for information.
Length:
2 1/2 hours
Cost: $39
Preregistration and prepayment required.
To Register: Call the Center at 206-325-9093,
or click here
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Mentoring in a Time of Economic and Workplace Transition
Learn about the 5 major career transition times when mentors are needed, learn about the 6 areas of concern for those seeking a mentor, develop a personalized script for approaching a potential mentor and gain information about the mentoring function of mid-career internships. Call for information.
Length:
2 1/2 hours
Cost: $39
Preregistration and prepayment required.
To Register: Call the Center at 206-325-9093,
or click here
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The Resume: An Endangered Species?
William Bridges, consultant to Fortune 500 companies, international speaker and author of Job Shift: How to Prosper In A Workplace Without Jobs, says that the job, as such, is dead. If he’s right, can the resume be far behind? This workshop will provide the latest information on resumes: electronic, chronological, functional, qualifications brief, biosketch. It will also touch on cover letters, references and letters of recommendation. Call for information.
Length:
2 1/2 hours
Cost: $39
Preregistration and prepayment required.
To Register: Call the Center at 206-325-9093,
or click here
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on Calendar
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Strategies for Finding Professional Part Time Work
Part-time work has changed dramatically over the last 10 years, now encompassing almost every industry, organization and level of employment. Find out specifically about professional-level part-time work, the techniques for targeting and selling it to employers and the seven strategies for obtaining it. Call for information.
Length:
2 1/2 hours
Cost: $39
Preregistration and prepayment required.
To Register: Call the Center at 206-325-9093,
or click here
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Take Charge of the Interview Process
There is more to
the interview process than getting a job. Take charge and get the job
you really want along with the best pay and benefits. Do you know what
to say to the question, “What are your salary requirements?”,
or, “What are your weaknesses?”, or, “Why should we hire
you?” In this interactive workshop, learn to answer all the tough
questions. Find out: *How to stand out in a crowd. *What
questions YOU should ask? *How to negotiate to meet your needs. *And much
more! Class includes the opportunity to practice your interviewing skills.
Successful interviewing requires turning the process around. Take charge
of the interview process and make your dreams come true.
Instructor:
Larry Gaffin is a career counselor and consultant in private practice.
His career work
is regularly featured in area media. He is professionally involved with
the nonprofit community,
academic and religious institutions, the environmental movement, manufacturing
and business
sectors.
Location:
Discover U, 2150 N 107th St., Suite B-52-, Seattle, WA 98133
Time: 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Cost: $45, plus $3 for materials
To Register: Call 206-365-0400, or click here
Class Registration: #BS534E
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Ten Ideas and Fifty Strategies for Maintaining Your Motivation & Self-Confidence During the Job Search
Take a fresh look at the typical issues facing almost every job seeker. Acquire immediately useful techniques and strategies for conducting a successful job search.
To Register:
Call the Center at 206-325-9093, or click
here
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Ten Steps to Career Bliss and Workplace Nirvana
These are the most important and most often overlooked steps needed by every successful job seeker. Take an inventory measuring your accomplishment in each of the ten areas. Come gain fresh insights into these steps and develop a personal action plan leading to your workplace success. Call for information.
Length: 2 1/2
hours
Cost: $39
Preregistration and prepayment required.
To Register: Call the Center at 206-325-9093
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Trendwatching: An Essential Job Search Tool
Governments monitor trends to determine policy, businesses conduct research for developing and marketing new products and services. Every biological species closely observes and tracks food sources or they cease to exist. Job-seekers can learn this simple and essential tool to empower their own career development and advancement. Career counselor Larry Gaffin will share with you several insightful and entertaining trendwatching techniques and resources he successfully uses with clients.
Location:
Bellevue Community College
Time: 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Cost: $55.00
To Register: Call
the College at 425-564-2263
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