It is a myth that employers hire the most highly qualified person. The truth is they hire the best job hunter who also has some of the qualifications they are looking for. Being able to job hunt in ways that catch the employer’s eye and appeal to them is very different from being a highly qualified, but mediocre job seeker. The out-of-the-box approaches in this webinar are unorthodox, but they come from real life examples of what people have done to get hired so we know they work. This is not about using technology in new ways. This is about truly innovative ideas. If you are ready to reinvent your thinking about job search and interviewing so you can show your job seekers a unique pathway to a job offer, sign up for this webinar!

This is a helpful guide for dislocated workers on how to get back into job search. It has a lot of links to very helpful resources that you should know about. Click here for the article.

Virtual interviews are on the rise. This is a very helpful article about what you can do to turn the virtual interview into a job offer. While not every tip will apply to all job seekers, there is plenty of helpful information here that you should know as you help people prepare for virtual interviews. Click here for the article.

Before the pandemic, the term essential work was not in our workforce development vocabulary. Most people did not think much of many of these jobs. But now we realize just how important these positions are to all of us. This article contains all kinds of helpful information about essential jobs. While these jobs often have high levels of virus risk and vary in pay, they are typically in high demand. This could be helpful for job seekers looking for jobs that have a lower risk of being downsized because of the virus. Click here for the article.

I have done over 300 webinars in my career. These are some of the most in demand topics these days.

1. Shaking Hands Through the Phone and the Screen!

   How to Overcome the Technology Communication Gap Using Innovative

   Remote Employment Counseling Techniques!

2. From Pink Slip to Paycheck! Employment Success with Dislocated Workers!

3. How to Serve More People in Less Time and Get Better Results!

4. Are You Saving Lives Doing Covid 19 Informed Employment Counseling?

5. How to Seal the Deal with Employers With New Remote Sales Strategies!

For information about bringing these webinars to your program, email me at larry@larryrobbin.com. For information about my webinars and more topics, click here

Young people are just so incredibly creative. Check out this article to see how they are using the Tik Tok app to make resumes and get hired. Click here for the article.

What does a workforce system grounded in racial and gender equity look like? What are the guiding principles that can make this transformation of a workforce system reality? While this excellent report from the Insight Center focuses on the Bay Area in California, the lessons to be learned can be applied elsewhere. If you are interested in bringing more diversity, equity and inclusion to the workforce system in your area, read this report. To access the report click here.

This workshop from the California Workforce Association Workcon Virtual Conference held in June of 2020 features two workforce board leaders, Michael Cross and Traci Holt from the Nortec Workforce Development Board and the Alliance for Workforce Development in California. Both of them managed their workforce areas during the time of the fires of 2019. Any workforce area leader should learn from the lessons they learned about delivering workforce services during a time of an emergency crisis. There are plenty of lessons to be learned in this webinar! Click here for a recording of their presentation.

Starting a new job in the virtual pandemic environment is different than starting a new job in the pre-virus era. This article has some helpful pointers about how to make that new job start successful. Click here for the article.