Job Finding Clubs - 2009
Turn on the television and we hear that unemployment is reaching double digit
numbers as the economy slides further into a recession, which some are starting to
call a depression. Now, perhaps more than ever, Employment Counsellors who are
in a unique position to affect real change in the lives of those we serve and in the
economic life of your business community need training to set up and run Job
Finding Clubs.
I am truly grateful and thank my lucky stars for having had the good fortune of
having worked with Arthur F. Mills, the man who is responsible for introducing
Job Finding Clubs to Canada in the 1980s. Some of my most meaningful work
accompanied by remarkable results occurred when delivering Job Finding Clubs
at the Saskatoon Canada Employment Centres while working as an employment
counsellor. Later, as the JFC co-ordinator and Counselling Consultant I was
privileged to work with Mary Cawley, an inspirational woman whose passion and
dedication ensured high standards and incredible results from the many
counsellors who were trained as Job Finding Club Leaders.
What makes JFCs so outstanding and successful compared to other job search
methods? First of all they work. Richard Bolles, (author of “What Color Is Your
Parachute?”) has complied research that states, out of every 100 people who use
JFCs to find work, 84 will find a job, which is 11times higher than just sending out
resumes on your own. That’s an 84% success rate. Secondly, a job search can be
frightening and depressing, many feel isolated and hopeless, in a JFC participants
are provided with support and guidance from a trained group leader, but perhaps
even more importantly from other group members attending the session.
Thirdly, this is an intensive three-week approach, which at the heart of this
program, uses behaviour therapy techniques and demands that each participant
make ten contacts per day to uncover “hidden jobs”.
The world is going through a profound change. Work has also shifted dramatically;
it is inevitable that the way we find jobs has changed as well. Surprisingly, the
Internet, although a great tool – has not proven to be a magic wand. It has not
changed the essential nature of job-hunting, which is that to be successful, one
must ultimately meet face to face with the employer. (Refer to: Job Search on the
Internet. Appendix C-1)
This Job Finding Club Manual is all about creating new opportunities for our
unemployed citizens. Rather than approaching employers to ask for something,
we approach employers with something to offer, an ongoing partnership
characterized by an equal exchange of resources and opportunities. This manual
provides details about activities and procedures designed to achieve the single,
overriding objective of the Job Finding Club: to help the job seeker find a job of the
highest feasible quality within the shortest feasible time period.
Turn on the television and we hear that unemployment is reaching double digit
numbers as the economy slides further into a recession, which some are starting to
call a depression. Now, perhaps more than ever, Employment Counsellors who are
in a unique position to affect real change in the lives of those we serve and in the
economic life of your business community need training to set up and run Job
Finding Clubs.
I am truly grateful and thank my lucky stars for having had the good fortune of
having worked with Arthur F. Mills, the man who is responsible for introducing
Job Finding Clubs to Canada in the 1980s. Some of my most meaningful work
accompanied by remarkable results occurred when delivering Job Finding Clubs
at the Saskatoon Canada Employment Centres while working as an employment
counsellor. Later, as the JFC co-ordinator and Counselling Consultant I was
privileged to work with Mary Cawley, an inspirational woman whose passion and
dedication ensured high standards and incredible results from the many
counsellors who were trained as Job Finding Club Leaders.
What makes JFCs so outstanding and successful compared to other job search
methods? First of all they work. Richard Bolles, (author of “What Color Is Your
Parachute?”) has complied research that states, out of every 100 people who use
JFCs to find work, 84 will find a job, which is 11times higher than just sending out
resumes on your own. That’s an 84% success rate. Secondly, a job search can be
frightening and depressing, many feel isolated and hopeless, in a JFC participants
are provided with support and guidance from a trained group leader, but perhaps
even more importantly from other group members attending the session.
Thirdly, this is an intensive three-week approach, which at the heart of this
program, uses behaviour therapy techniques and demands that each participant
make ten contacts per day to uncover “hidden jobs”.
The world is going through a profound change. Work has also shifted dramatically;
it is inevitable that the way we find jobs has changed as well. Surprisingly, the
Internet, although a great tool – has not proven to be a magic wand. It has not
changed the essential nature of job-hunting, which is that to be successful, one
must ultimately meet face to face with the employer. (Refer to: Job Search on the
Internet. Appendix C-1)
This Job Finding Club Manual is all about creating new opportunities for our
unemployed citizens. Rather than approaching employers to ask for something,
we approach employers with something to offer, an ongoing partnership
characterized by an equal exchange of resources and opportunities. This manual
provides details about activities and procedures designed to achieve the single,
overriding objective of the Job Finding Club: to help the job seeker find a job of the
highest feasible quality within the shortest feasible time period.
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