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So You Finished Your Education, Now What?

You’ve spent the last few years working hard to earn your educational degree or certificate, and now the pressure is on for you to find work.

You believed that finding a job would be a breeze once you obtained your degree or certificate. However, since you had started your job search nearly a year ago, you’ve come to realize that it’s NOT THAT EASY! You’ve submitted your resume and applications over and over again, only to admit finding a job is ...

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24
MAY
2021

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Career Tips, Employment, Job Search

applications, certificate, degree, education, job search, professional

Ways to Spring Clean Your Job Search

Posted by: Alyse Tatevosian

Every year, millions of people set out to spring clean their homes and garages. Spring is also the perfect time to clean your job search image. It’s the time for renewal and clarity.

1. Clean Your Workspace Area
Clear paperwork piles, file paperwork, discard unnecessary paperwork and organize your workspace.

2. Email
Delete or archive old emails.

3. Dust Off Your Resume
Your resume should reflect your current targeted goals and communicates what your “experience” brings to the table. If your resume is more than two ...

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3
MAY
2021

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Career Tips, Job Search, Motivation

application, clean, job search, networking, professional, resume, workspace

How to Prepare Your Resume

Posted by: Alyse Tatevosian

A good resume is what will help you land an interview for your dream job. If you appropriately tailor your resume, you will hear back from almost every job opportunity. Before you start working on your resume, you need to outline your skills and experiences relevant to the job. Once you have listed all your qualifications, you can prepare your resume for your job application.

Follow These Steps When Drafting Your Resume

1. Choose the correct resume format.
There are three standard resume ...

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APR
2021

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Career Tips, Job Search, Resume Tips

career tips, job hunt, job search, resume, resume tips, resumehelp, resumewriting, skills, work experience

Comparing TTW and Regional Center Services

Posted by: Alyse Tatevosian

Polishing the Professional offers several different services to help our clients land gainful employment. Two of these services are at no cost to you. These are our Regional Center and Ticket to Work services.

Regional Center

Regional center clients receive work readiness training, job placement support, and long-term support through vocational services.

Work readiness training consists of our pre-employment training program. We make sure our regional center clients know how to answer interview questions and conduct themselves in an interview. If they need ...

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APR
2021

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Career Choices, Employers, Job Search

career advisor, employment, employment networks, job coaching, regional center, Ticket to Work

Focus on Career Development

Posted by: Alyse Tatevosian

Our work is not merely about finding our clients a job; we help our clients take steps toward finding and establishing a career.

While many come to us to help them find a job to fill an immediate need, we are strongly committed to helping our clients take steps to establish long-term success and self-sufficiency.

Anyone can help our clients find a job, but we want to make sure that that job will lead to a future career. To achieve this, during ...

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5
APR
2021

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Career Choices, Career Path, Job Search

career development, career services, employment, employment services, experience, professional, skills

How to Handle Gaps in Employment

Posted by: Lorraine Brown

Gaps in work history can cause an employer to become skeptical about hiring you. They may find it concerning that you had long periods of absence from normal adult activities and question whether you are a serious candidate for their company.

Employers may be concerned that you are hiding something unfavorable. They may assume that your release from your last position was not voluntary and that you were unable to find work due to incompetency.

You are human, and life has various ...

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8
MAR
2021

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Career Tips, Job Search, Resume Tips

career tips, employment, employment gaps, gaps in employment, interview, resume, skills

From Super Bowl to Super Employee – Your Game Plan for Finding Your Next Job

Posted by: Denise Gardiner

With Super Bowl month mania just passing, I decided to use sports analogies when talking about the job hunt. A successful job hunt starts with a plan. So, let’s compare a job search with this year’s Super Bowl and the Kansas City Chiefs looking to win back-to-back Super Bowls, but ended up being triumphed by a physically dominant Buccaneers who had a perfect game plan resulting in Kansas City losing to the Bucs-31; KC-9.

As a result of the pandemic, the ...

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1
MAR
2021

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Career Choices, Career Tips, Job Search

career choices, covid, employment, job boards, job club, job fairs, job hunt, job market, job search, network, seeking employment

Criminal Records and Employment

Posted by: Lorraine Brown

When looking for employment, a criminal record can be a significant hindrance. The information in this post should help you decide how you will handle your job search.

What to Avoid

Look for work that is not related to your conviction or arrest. For example, if you received a DUI, do not apply for positions that require you to drive. If you stole money, do not apply for a job as a bank teller. Background checks will focus on these areas based ...

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22
FEB
2021

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Career Tips, Employers, Job Search

arrest, convicted, conviction, criminal record, employment, expungement, felonies, guilty, misdemeanors

How to Find a Job in 2021

Posted by: Denise Gardiner

Landing a job during a pandemic will be tough! The hiring process has changed in many ways because of Covid-19. From the traditional in-person hiring process to remote where potential candidates go through everything virtually, 2021 does not promise that things will go back to normal and that we will all be back in an office again anytime soon.

According to Jessica Hernandez, Director of Human Resources at Cam-Lane Industries, remote jobs are becoming the “new normal” and is a trend ...

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15
FEB
2021

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Career Tips, Job Search, Motivation

2021, career advice, covid, digital network, How to Find a Job in 2021, job search, pandemic, virtual network

The Process of Assigning a Ticket to an Employment Network

Posted by: Lorraine Brown

Beneficiaries assign their Ticket to employment networks once they are ready to look for employment. Employment Networks are for those who have all the skills they need for their field of interest and need assistance with the interview process to obtain gainful employment.

The Ticket to Work Program’s function is to help those who receive social security benefits become gainfully employed. The best way for a ticket recipient to receive assistance in landing job interviews is by assigning their Ticket to ...

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8
FEB
2021

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Career Choices, Job Search, Master Plan

career advice, career choices, career goals, disability, employment, employment networks, job interviews, The Master Plan, Ticket to Work, work

So You Finished Your Education, Now What?

Ways to Spring Clean Your Job Search

How to Prepare Your Resume

Comparing TTW and Regional Center Services

Focus on Career Development

How to Handle Gaps in Employment

From Super Bowl to Super Employee – Your Game Plan for Finding Your Next Job

Criminal Records and Employment

How to Find a Job in 2021

The Process of Assigning a Ticket to an Employment Network

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