Workshops
Bridge the GAP to Career Success
The Tennessee Career Center staff will provide you with an insight on the career center's services, introduce you to partners housed in the career center and provide you with a tour of our facilities.
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.
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.
Interviewing With Confidence
Prepares customers for stages of an Interview
- How to Prepare for an Interview
- Do and Don'ts of an Interview
- How to dress for Success
- Procedures for follow up after an Interview
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
- 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
Study Skills for Academic Success Workshop
The fifteen-hour course focuses on four areas: improving study skills; improving test-taking skills; time management, and motivation. The section of the course on time management will include discussion of stress and crisis management specifically as it relates to balancing education with other life issues. The section on motivation will focus on the economic value of education and the ever-decreasing opportunities for uneducated persons in today’s changing economy. This is a prerequisite to a Career Center scholarship - required by all who plan to apply for scholarships funded by South Central Tennessee Workforce Alliance.
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