Montevideo WorkForce Center

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Montevideo WorkForce Center

• Demand Driving Proposed Strategies
• December 2006
• Jon Croom -Julie Dammann - Carol Dombek Cathy
  Ervin - Jason Giese Norma Laechelt Sharon
  Lobdell - Mark Mertens - Ann Olson Julie
  Redepenning - Jill Rysdahl - Dave Swenson

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Business Services

• Business services staff will attend Montevideo
  WorkForce Center staff meeting once a month to
  inform staff of current demands and concerns of
  businesses in the region.

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Focus on Demand Occupations

• Design and maintain information poster that
  focuses on high demand occupations to be
  displayed in WorkForce Center Resource Area and
  provided as a hand out. This poster and hand
  out would need to be reviewed quarterly and
  updated as needed.

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Example . . .
Need a Job Today! If you have these
skills Reliable, hard working, computer
operation, ability to read and write English, and
follow instructions You can find work as
Electronics assembler, food procession
production worker, personal care assistant,
nursing assistant, production worker or assembler
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Educate Job Seekers

• Inform Job Seekers utilizing the computers in the
  resource area of targeted and high-growth
  occupations by utilizing the scrolling marquee on
  the computer screen savers.

Need a job today? Are you reliable, hard working,
etc You could be a PCA, production worker, food
processor.
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Educate Job Seekers and more . . .

• Target high priority, high wage, high growth
  industries by showcasing industries in resource
  area and obtaining industry specific information
  from target businesses by hearing guest speakers
  and taking industry tours.

Health Care Manufacturing Agriculture
Ag Processing
Chemical Manufacturing Bioscience-Biotechnology
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Educate Job Seekers

• Renew relationship with Adult Basic Education in
  the region. Contact Jennifer Rude (new staff)
  and make arrangements for staff to meet with
  Jennifer to discuss how staff can better
  coordinate ABE, ESL and GED activities in the
  region.

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Skills Identification

• Explore options for skills identification process
  for all job seekers. Staff will explore and
  research options that are currently available
  on-line that may be able to be utilized for this
  purpose.

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Staff Training

• Staff training on computer skills and resources
  was identified as a priority for being able to
  provide job seekers with quality information and
  training in the areas of completing on-line
  applications and resumes, setting up e-mail
  accounts, providing accurate labor market
  information, options on career laddering and
  better able to assist job seekers in the
  WorkForce Center resource area.

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Staff Training

• Staff will identify their own area of expertise
  and provide training to co-workers. Each staff
  person will go on-line and complete a specific
  company application, print copies of the process
  as they go through it and share company specific
  information to staff.

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Train Job Seekers

• Develop a job seeker check list that job seekers
  are able to have available as they develop their
  job seeker tools. The process would be more
  organized and less frustrating. The job seeker
  would have more successful outcomes.

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Job Seeker Assistance

• To provide better quality placement assistance to
  individuals that have registered on Minnesota Job
  Bank, Montevideo WorkForce Center staff would
  search WINS on a weekly basis for Job Bank
  registrations.

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Job Seeker Assistance . . . Cont.

• Those that have e-mail addresses will be
  contacted via an e-mail message to explain to
  them the benefit of a complete Job Bank
  registration, tools available in the resource
  area of the WorkForce Center and invite job
  seekers to visit the WorkForce Center if they
  havent already done so.

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Job Seeker Assistance . . . Cont.

• During the month of October 2006, there were 73
  new job seeker registrations and 36 had e-mail
  addresses included in their registration. In
  November 65 individuals registered and 25 had
  e-mail addresses.

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example of e-mail . . .
Dear Job Seeker
The
staff of the Montevideo WorkForce Center would
like to thank you for your registration with
Minnesota Job Bank. As a serious job seeker, we
want you to have every opportunity for success in
your job search therefore, we ask that you
review your on-line registration with Minnesota
Job Bank for completeness. Please keep in mind
that potential employers utilized the Job Bank on
a daily basis to search for resumes. Would your
on-line Job Bank registration entice those
employers to contact you? We take this
opportunity to share with you some of the tools
that are available to assist you in your job
search. If you prefer to utilize our on-line
tools, we would like to direct you with the
following web address http//www.mnwfc.org/jobse
ekers.htm . If these tools do not really fit
your needs, we invite you to visit the Montevideo
WorkForce Center to explore the tools available
in our resource area. These options include
information on high demand employment
opportunities resume writing assistance,
effective job search and interviewing techniques
both in print and on video tapes. Wishes for
a successful job search! Montevideo WorkForce
Center Staff 202 North First Street Montevideo,
MN 56265 320-269-5561
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On-line links to Creative Job Search, Adult
Training, Dislocated Worker, Youth Services . . .
and more.
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Montevideo WorkForce Center
Demand Driven Training Team
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Questions?
Thank You!