"Intrinsic Employability"

We all want to be wanted. We want to be hired. We want to be needed by a purpose, movement or company.

This satisfies our needs for acceptance, validates our worth and increases our security or position in a company or context.

You will spend over 100,000 hours of your life time working (from age 18-65)

See yourself as a precious resource, with your skills, services, abilities and person- hood as valuable and profitable.

Invest purposefully and strategically

"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always had."

Risk, drive and passion must be combined with natural abilities to succeed. The sweet spot is when all of these collide with action.

Assess your natural strengths.
Assess your resources and opportunities.
Understand your limits but do not hide behind them.

Skills Gap
Shortage of high skilled workers
Create opportunities for job seekers to step in and be the TRAINED in skills that lead directly to employment.

Basics:
GED/ Diploma
FAFSA
Associates programs
Bachelors programs- Metropolitan State Univ.

Certificate
Kaplan Real Estate Education
Minneapolis School of Bartending
Online PCA Certificate (20 minutes)


Community Training Programs:
Goodwill Easter Seals
Life Track
American Indian OIC
Summit Academy
Job Corps
Shalom
American Red Cross
Newgate Education Center
St. Paul EMS Academy

Apprenticeships:
US Department of Labor
St. Paul Electrical JATC
MN Dot

Over 1.6 Million Minnesotans volunteer a year
Who are these people?

Benefits are overwhelming...
Connections will flourish...
References will strengthen...
Skills will be sharpened...
Opportunities will open...
"Gaps" will have purpose...
Communities will be healed...
Lives will be changed....

by you.

Could you use an experience like THIS to answer an interview question?

HandsOn Twin Cities
Volunteer Match
Americorps
Minnesota Children's Museum
Wilderness Inquiry
Sholom
Union Gospel Mission
Catholic Charities
YMCA

*Medical Industry
- Direct Care (varying levels)
- Medical Records Support and Coding
Physical Therapy Assistants- 2 year certification program

Several environments including group homes, hospitals or private residence, requiring varying levels of education and training. PCA certification can be earned in 20 minutes online.

*Banking
- Easy career ladder involving little education and typically work great hours

Computer Software
Self taught to bachelors in Computer Science.

Dental Assistants
2 year program

Pharmacy Technician
On the job training + additional certifications

Sales
Phone, in person or big business, this industry pays heavily on commission and rewards charisma. Pharmaceuticals to insurance plans.

Real Estate
The training certification can be completed in less than a month. Highly commission and reputation based.

Leaders are persuasive, real and motivating.
They often accept responsibility, take initiative and take risks to lead towards change.

Identify your professional values

Discover your leadership style

Create business cards

Create a LinkedIn profile

Attend networking meeting with the Chamber of Commerce

Write and blog about your experiences and expertise

Study various leadership strategies including
Lean In and Question behind the Question

Take on a leadership role in your community

Study various leaders that inspire you such as Steve Jobs, Oprah Winfrey, Steven King

Be a mentor, find a mentor

Conduct an informational interview with a leader in your community

Start your own business

Start your own non profit or volunteer service

Free basic and advanced computer and IT training classes are available with the Ramsey County Workforce Center, public libraries and with Goodwill Easter Seals.

Advanced computer/ IT classes are available through the Science Museum of Minnesota

Test your computer literacy at North Star Digital Literacy to check areas for growth

Improve typing and 10 Key skills online

Understand HYPPA and OSHA regulations

Many job openings request basic office skills, cash handling or counting skills, telephone skills and fast computer navigation

Forklift Certification
Front Loader Machine

Ready For Success, Martha' Closest and Dress for Success equip professionals with free work clothes

Prism Auto Repair Shop helps fix cars to get you back on the road, driving to work

Upscale Quest Network Inc Helps re-instate Driver's Licenses

Internet Essentials through Comcast provides internet for $9.99 a month to families that have at least one child using Free or Reduced lunch

The Ramsey Count Workforce Center offers free classes for computer training

Enlist the help of Staffing Agencies to connect you with jobs in the hidden market

Work with Employment Support Consultants for special hiring events and job connections

Network with your friends and family, on your social media and in your community activities. Be prepared with a resume and business card and keep track of contacts and connections.

Several studies have proven the direct link between confidence and success.

Confidence is in the way you carry and portray yourself. It shines through in the way you talk about yourself in interviews and the leadership roles you accept.

It stems from believe in yourself, your worth, your opportunities and abilities. It disregards age and accepts boundaries as challenges.

Accept a position in a part time job
Start your own business
Start your own non profit or volunteer services

To grow in confidence, start exercising or set an achievable fitness goal, develop (engaging in) your passions and claim your opinions. Enter your work into a contest or read books about your hobbies.

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