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Work Readiness Skills
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Finding and Keeping Your First Job 
Author: Carroll, Jan
Description: A fact sheet that provides tips for finding, getting, and keeping a job.
How to Get a Job - Understanding Work Schedules
Author: Tucker, Easter
Description: A fact sheet designed to help people understand work schedules.
How to Get a Job – Being the Best You Can Be
Author: Tucker, Easter
Description: A fact sheet that provides tips for getting a job.
How to Get a Job – Changing Jobs? Looking for a Job––
Author: Tucker, Easter
Description: A fact sheet that provides tips for people who are changing jobs or looking for jobs.
How to Get a Job – Filling Out an Application
Author: Tucker, Easter
Description: A fact sheet that provides tips for filling out job applications.
How to Get a Job – How Do I Look?
Author: Tucker, Easter
Description: A fact sheet that provides tips for people on how they should look when preparing to go on a job interview.
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/fy/fy34500.pdf
Author: Bolton, Elizabeth
Description: A tool that provides an overview of how to get to know yourself so that you can present yourself positively when seeking a job.
Author: Bolton, Elizabeth
Description: A tool designed to help job seekers find jobs.
Keeping a Job – Getting Along With People on the Job
Author: Tucker, Easter
Description: A fact sheet that provides tips for getting along with people while on the job.
Keeping a Job – Meeting the Public
Author: Tucker, Easter
Description: A fact sheet designed to help people improve their communications skills to help them get along with others while they are working.
Keeping a Job – So You Got the Job, Now What?
Author: Tucker, Easter
Description: A fact sheet that discusses ways to keep a job once you have gotten a job.
Keeping a Job – Work Relationships
Author: Tucker, Easter
Description: A fact sheet that discusses ways to develop good working relationships with supervisors and co-workers.
Author: Bolton, Elizabeth
Description: A tool designed to help job seekers market themselves.
Personal Wellness for Top Peak Performance
Author: DeBord, Karen; Rebekah F. Canu; Robin Baker Howse
Description: Fact sheet and tips on maintaining good nutrition and health for parents making the transition from welfare to work. Suggestions include eating right, exercise, stress reduction, and getting enough rest.
Author: Bolton, Elizabeth
Description: A tool designed to help job seekers prepare for job interviews.
Author: Bolton, Elizabeth
Description: A tool designed to help job seekers prepare a resume.
Author: The Forum for Youth Inves,
Description: A review of information about factors that contributes to and create barriers to college success. Explanation of the skills that contribute to college success are the same ones needed for workplace success.
Author: The Forum for Youth Inves,
Description: A review of information about factors that contributes to and create barriers to college success. Explanation of the skills that contribute to college success are the same ones needed for workplace success.
Selling Yourself: A Guide to Writing Effective Resumes
Description: There are a number of basics that must be covered before beginning the process of writing of a resume or cover letter. This paper will guide the reader through the basics of resumes and cover letters and provide comments on frequently asked questions.
Staying on the Job Once You are Hired
Author: Bolton, Elizabeth
Description: A tool designed to help people stay on the job once they are hired.
Author: Tucker, Easter
Description: A fact sheet that provides an overview of job interviews and how to prepare for job interviews.
Author: Bolton, Elizabeth
Description: A tool designed to help job seekers find the right job for them.
Description: CYFERnet resources describe workforce preparation and provide information about developing workforce preparation programs.
Writing Experience Resumes and Targeted Cover Letters
Author: Urich, Judith
Description: Teaches how to write experience resumes and targeted cover letters. Includes sample resumes for an adult with a ragged resume and two teens, one with and one without job experience. Materials in html and pdf. Program is web based.
Author: Bolton, Elizabeth
Description: A tool designed to help job seekers write cover letters.
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Adjusting to Work: Getting Along with Others
Author: DeBord, Karen; Rebekah F. Canu
Description: Fact sheet for parents making the transition from welfare to work, on how to get along with others at work and be successful in returning to work.
netWORKS: a guide to expanding the employment networks of low-income people
Author: Wycoff, Laura; Carol Clymer
Description: A guide that provides information and guidance on how organizations can incorporate networking into their programs. This guide also provides instructions for classroom activities and assignments. It is designed for program managers, job-skill trainers, and job developers. The purpose of this guide is to facilitate programs that want to help participants build their networks so that participants can use those networks to search for jobs.
Personal Wellness for Top Peak Performance
Author: DeBord, Karen; Rebekah F. Canu; Robin Baker Howse
Description: Fact sheet and tips on maintaining good nutrition and health for parents making the transition from welfare to work. Suggestions include eating right, exercise, stress reduction, and getting enough rest.
Preparation for the Real World: A Workforce Preparation and Entrepreneurship Training Model
Author: Imani Fields, Nia; Kendra Wells ; Manami Brown; Alganesh Piechocinski
Description: CYFAR 2009 PowerPoint presentation provides an introduction to Maryland 4-H's Entrepreneurship & Workforce Readiness (EWR) Model, describing its key components, how to implement the model. and key project outcomes and evaluation strategies.
Putting 4-H Experience on your Resume
Author: Carroll, Jan; Kathy Wolfe
Description: Jan Carroll and Kathy Wolfe
A fact sheet about writing a resume.
Skills Gap Is Big Concern of Employers Today
Description: Two great concerns of employers today are finding good workers and training them. The difference between the skills needed on the job and those possessed by the applicants, called skills-gap, is of real concern to human resource managers and business owners looking to hire competent employees. This article deals with this problem.
Tackling the Tough Skills: A Curriculum Building Skills for Work and Life
Description: Tackling the Tough Skills is a fun, innovative and highly interactive life skills curriculum that helps hard-to-reach adults or teens prepare for success in work and life. The curriculum is designed to help individuals transition from welfare to work, easily adaptable to a wide range of audiences, including adults and teens.
The Impact of Arts Education on Workforce Preparation
Description: Programs incorporating the arts have proven to be educational, developmentally rich, and cost-effective ways to provide students with the skills they need to be productive participants in today's economy according to this NGA Issue Brief.
The Promising and Effective Practices Network (PEPNet)
Description: Descriptions of youth employement and training programs.
Tips for a Successful Interview
Author: Carroll, Jan; T. Blush; Kathy Wolfe
Description: A fact sheet describing how to prepare for an interview.
Author: UNITED NATIONS, Headquarters,
Description: Project is "to provide exceptional educational resources (both online and in print) to students growing up in a world undergoing increased globalization." Create a model UN; youth have access to country profiles, a well-written introduction to the history and work of the United Nations, some fun quizzes and the Urban Fact Game. Includes helpful curriculums (such as racial discrimination) and age- appropriate briefing papers. In English, Spanish, French, Russian, Chinese, Arabic.
Writing Experience Resumes and Targeted Cover Letters
Author: Urich, Judith
Description: Teaches how to write experience resumes and targeted cover letters. Includes sample resumes for an adult with a ragged resume and two teens, one with and one without job experience. Materials in html and pdf. Program is web based.
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The Impact of Arts Education on Workforce Preparation
Description: Programs incorporating the arts have proven to be educational, developmentally rich, and cost-effective ways to provide students with the skills they need to be productive participants in today's economy according to this NGA Issue Brief.