Counseling includes serving as teacher, care giver, cheerleader, and personal coach. The program also includes transportation to fill out applications and meet employers.

Participants are required to dress in professional attire and tardiness is not accepted.  They are taught that the job hunt is now their full-time work.  It is to be pursued eight hours a day, five days a week just as every other job.  Time not spent in the classroom is spent in the field filling out applications, meeting employers, and learning how to get to meet the person who can hire you.

Participants become members of a job hunting club meeting together to share ideas, information and support.  They also work together making contacts and developing job leads.

Phone Skills and Interviewing Skills -  Role play is used to learn how to use the phone to find work and how to interview with a prospective employer..    These exercises also serve as confidence builders.
Resume Writing - We write resumes for the primary purpose of showing each individual how many gifts they have, how much experience they have and how valuable they can be to an employer.

Among the skills which the participants will learn are:

The program is intensive one-on-one counseling.  Counseling emphasizes each individual's worth and unique gifts.  Discovering their gifts will help guide the job hunters toward their own careers. We are not helping them to simply find a job.  We want to move them into meaningful work.  They are also encouraged to continue their education.  Those who are interested are guided through the enrollment process and offered encouragement as they complete their studies.

The first task is to identify a specific job title or position that the participant really wants to do.  Then each one is taught how to find those job opportunities and how to market themselves successfully to obtain the job.

The Program