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To start, make sure you have a notebook for College and Career Success. Each post/activity starts with a quickwrite (QW); you will complete your quickwrites in this notebook, and share them with your EF at your meetings. For each quickwrite, spend about 10 minutes writing down whatever comes to mind in response to the QW prompt. Try to write for the entire 10 minutes.

You can also use this notebook for any thoughts and reflections you want to jot down while completing the activities, and when we get to the college and career planning, you can keep your college list and other notes about college and career interests in your notebook.

If you are new to the course, start at the bottom and work your way up. New posts/activities will appear at the top.

Monday, April 8, 2019

Job Search

QW: Where would you look if you were looking for a job?


It used to be that when someone needed a job, they just walked around looking for help wanted signs, or looked in the help wanted section of the paper.  If they were looking for a job out of college, the path was often clear; there were a limited number of companies and it was obvious whom to contact. 

The job market has changed drastically over the past couple of decades.  Job searches are now mostly online, with websites where you can post your resume and look for jobs all over the country.  Many professional organizations have their own online job boards, for example edjoin for education jobs.  There are also generic sites like indeed.com, ziprecruiter.com, and monster.com.  Even Google seems to have its own job search engine; try googling a job you are interested in and see what comes up.

One great resource for local jobs is the Siskiyou Training and Employment Program (STEP) Siskiyou jobs list.  They update this list weekly with all sorts of jobs in the local area - the current list is 15 pages long.

Another good source for local jobs is the localhelpwanted.com . The closest to here would probably be reddinghelpwanted.com.

For this assignment, look over the job search resources below.  Find a job that looks interesting to you, and complete the cover letter worksheet specific to that job.  Next week, we will explore the cover letter in more detail.
Some useful job search resources:

And here is the cover letter worksheet
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