December 2011

Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
1
Test Taking Strategy
11:30 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
Marshall County High School / 2
Marshall County
Career Center
Computer Intermediate
9:00-10:15 a.m.
10:30-11:45 a.m.
Computer Basics
1:30-2:45 p.m.
3:00-4:15 p.m.
5
Lawrence County
Career Center
Computer Intermediate
9:00-10:15 a.m.
10:30-11:45 a.m.
Computer Basics
1:30-2:45 p.m.
3:00-4:15 p.m. / 6
Test Taking Strategy
9:00-11:30 a.m.
Columbia Central High School
1:00-3:00 p.m.
Mt. Pleasant High School / 7
Build a Better Résumé
Webinar
9:00-11:00 a.m. / 8
Test Taking Strategy
8:20-9:48a.m.
Hickman County High School / 9
Staff
Development
12
Wayne County
Career Center
Computer Intermediate
9:00-10:15 a.m.
10:30-11:45 a.m.
Computer Basics
1:30-2:45 p.m.
3:00-4:15 p.m. / 13
Study Skills for Academic Success Workshop
9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Workforce Development and Conference Center at Northfield / 14
Study Skills for Academic Success Workshop
9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Workforce Development and Conference Center at Northfield / 15
Study Skills for Academic Success Workshop
9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Workforce Development and Conference Center at Northfield / 16
Northfield
Career Center
Computer Intermediate
9:00-10:15 a.m.
10:30-11:45 a.m.
Computer Basics
1:30-2:45 p.m.
3:00-4:15 p.m.
19
Maury County
Career Center
Computer Intermediate
9:00-10:15 a.m.
10:30-11:45 a.m.
Computer Basics
1:30-2:45 p.m.
3:00-4:15 p.m. / 20
Résumé Clinic
Webinar
9:00-10:00 a.m. / 21 / 22
Build a Better Résumé
Webinar
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Interviewing with Confidence Webinar
1:30-3:30 p.m. / 23
Career Center
Closed
26
Career Center
Closed / 27 / 28 / 29 / 30
Career Center

Closed

Job Search Strategies

You will leave this Workshop with knowledge of:

  • Using the Internet for your job search
  • Uncovering hidden job openings
  • Green jobs
  • Small business careers
  • Using the career center resources

Interviewing With Confidence

Prepares customers for stages of an Interview

  • How to Prepare for an Interview
  • Do and Don'ts of an Interview
  • What to Wear for an Interview
  • What questions to expect in an Interview

Build a Better Résumé

The workshop provides guidelines on:

  • Developing a list of references
  • Basic résumé rules and formatting components
  • Cover letter writing

*Come prepared with pertinent information to begin your resume.

Résumé Clinic

The workshop provides feedback and offers suggestions on your completed résumé

*Please bring a completed résumé with you to this workshop

Career Portfolio

At the end of this workshop the participant should be able to:

  • Assemble a career portfolio using the essential components
  • Identify personal key skill areas–soft, hard and transferable
  • Collect and choose appropriate work samples for a career portfolio
  • Identify the key skills a potential employer needs on the job
  • Use a career portfolio in an interview setting

Computer Basics

At the end of this workshop the participant should be able to:

  • Understand the Windows 2010 screen
  • Use the mouse
  • Read the desktop
  • Work with a window
  • Use menus and toolbars and
  • Enter and work with text in Word Pad

Computer Intermediate

At the end of this workshop the participant should be able to:

  • Customize the taskbar and desktop
  • Understand the Start Menu
  • Work with desktop icons
  • Customize Windows

Leave the Box/Creative Jobs

This workshop focuses on finding your next job through the use of creative thinking.

  • You will learn an out-of-the-box strategy to explore job options.
  • Bring colored markers and your imagination to this workshop

Study Skills for Academic Success

The fifteen-hour course focuses on these areas, plus more:

  • Describing post-secondary faculty’s expectations for successful learning
  • Using critical thinking skills in class discussions
  • Developing individual strategies for successful test-taking
  • Planning daily, weekly, monthly, and semester schedules
  • Understanding formal writing requirements\
  • Describing post-secondary faculty’s expectations for successful learning
  • How to identify and set-up a personal study area