Larry trains on more than 300 topics. This list features some of the most requested workshops.Click here for the list of training topics. If you do not see what you need, please contact Larry to see if he trains on that subject. Larry trains onsite, by telephone or by webinar.

All webinars are from 10:30-12:30 PST. Can’t make the webinar dates? Webinars will be recorded and available for 30 days after the live session. For full descriptions, registration and details go to https://calworkforce.org/cwa-resources/training/i-got-the-job/  For questions email monica@calworkforce.org

You have tried everything to get hard-to-employ youth and adults to come to your program, but nothing seems to work. This innovative webinar will show you how to transform cutting edge private sector marketing, sales and customer acquisition strategies into powerful magnets that will turn your recruitment challenges into waiting lists!

About 80% of the people you serve are trauma survivors. The powerful force of trauma undermines participation in your program, motivation, career planning, job search and much more. Once you understand trauma, you can spot its signs and you will know how to help so people will make more employment progress in less time!

For the hard-to-employ with multiple and severe barriers to getting hired, the road to a job offer is a long journey filled with constant rejection. Traditional approaches to motivation are no match for this long and depressing struggle to stay in job search. You have strategies that help people get started in job search, but do you have strategies that will sustain their motivation over a job search that can take many months of rejection filled job hunting? This webinar has a new toolbox of motivational strategies that will sustain job search motivation and help people persevere in the long and hard path to employment!

THE RADAR APPROACH TO JOB RETENTION! THE MOST POWERFUL AND EFFECTIVE JOB LOSS PREVENTION SYSTEM YOU CAN PUT INTO YOUR PROGRAM!

About 80% of the reasons people quit or get fired are in them when they start your program. Work only brings them to the surface. Our traditional post-employment crisis intervention approach to retention is too little too late to be effective. If you integrate job retention strategies into all your pre-employment work, you will be much more effective at preventing job loss. Learn to work like radar spotting the early indicators of retention strengths and challenges and you can help people stay on the job longer than ever!

For more information about Larry Robbin go to https://www.larryrobbin.com. To get a list of over 50 webinars Larry provides for workforce organizations, email larry@larryrobbin.com

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To see a description of my webinar Building Bridges to the American Workplace! Employment Success with Immigrants and Refugees, click here   

What does that job pay is a question that job seekers often ask workforce development professionals. It can be challenging to find this information. This article is filled with helpful strategies for finding out salary levels. Click here for the article.

The gig economy has presented many challenges to the public workforce system because it was not prepared to deal with this dramatic change in the economy and what it meant for workers. This report provides a number of perspectives and strategies to help workforce organizations develop strategies for helping people with the gig economy.

Letters of interest are not a well-developed job search strategy used by most workforce development professionals. This article is packed with very helpful ideas about how to write compelling letters of interest that have a good chance of leading to an interview even when an employer does not have a job opening! Click here for the article.

The list is filled with helpful websites, best practice reports and webinar information. To get the list, email me at larry@larryrobbin.com.

Career ladders sound like a great idea, but they are often not developed or implemented in ways that are responsive to people who have been raised in families and communities with few people who can be career role models. Economic policies often push for jobs for poor people, but jobs often do not have the advancement and income opportunities that careers can provide. This means that many of the people we serve do not have role models and the access they need to careers. This enlightening report is filled with examples of programs that served people with multiple and challenging systemic and personal barriers to employment that successfully helped these individuals succeed in career pathways. Click here for the report.

A great deal has been written about various aspects of the return to the office as the pandemic starts to subside. But I have not seen the return to the office analyzed from a diversity, equity and inclusion perspective. This eye opening article is important food for thought for people in management that make return to work policies and staff who are coworkers of people of color and other marginalized populations. Click here for the article.

Transgender individuals face a tremendous amount of discrimination both in their job search and on the job. Most workforce development professionals are not prepared to help transgender individuals with meaningful employment counseling and resources. This article from the Canadian career organization CERIC is filled with helpful information that every workforce development professional should be aware of. Click here for the article.

Many workforce development professionals help job seekers with cover letters. These cover letters are often generic boiler plate approaches that do not really help people in the hiring process. This article is filled with useful ideas about to make a cover letter that will get the interest of the employer.

Every workforce program, whether it focuses on people who have been involved with the justice system, is serving more people that have been involved with these systems than staff and management often realize. One out of three Americans has some kind of criminal record on file somewhere.

The National Reentry Resource Center has an amazing number of resources that will help you get better employment outcomes with justice involved individuals. Click here to go to their site.

You may think you have figured out how to work from home successfully, but I will bet that you will find the practical and proven tips in this list to make working from home even more successful. Click here to see the list.

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