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Sweet Success!
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to read about successful WIA Participants and their achievements!
One-Stop Centers – Your Job Search Headquarters
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here to learn more about the Greenville County One-Stop Orientation and
Overview.
Explore Career Interests & Assess Employment Skills
- CareerVoyages.gov is
filled with labor market information, career resources and industry driven content
aimed at 15-25 year olds, their parents, career advisors and career changers. This
site also hosts the extremely popular career information magazine InDemand.
- CareerScope . Self-administered* interest inventory and aptitude
assessment. Assists with career planning. Can be utilized to help individuals determine
if they have the aptitude for a particular occupation. Entire process takes approximately
1 hour.
- SCOIS. Used
for obtaining information on various occupations. Features Multimedia/Full-Motion
Occupation Videos for some occupations. Also features a self-administered assessment*,
college search and financial aid information.
* Self-administered assessment accessible only in the One-Stop Centers – not
available by Internet.
- O*NET
. Replaces the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT). O*Net has information for
more than 950 occupations based on the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC)
System. Allows users to create a list of skills they have or plan to acquire, find
occupations that match most of their skills, generate lists of up to 10 occupations
with user-identified knowledge areas, skills, work environments, and work activities,
creates a summary of the most important characteristics of an occupation, and provides
a list of characteristics associated with a selected occupation.
- Labor Market Information.
Find information on what occupations are hot in your area and across the nation.
Other Free Internet Assessments.
Quintessential Careers- Help plan your future with these self-assessment
and career discovery tests.
- Motivational Appraisal
of Personal Potential (MAPP) - MAPP is a world-class personal assessment
that takes 15 minutes to complete. MAPP identifies your true motivations toward
work and allows you to match yourself to job categories to see where you best fit.
Write Your Resume
- WinWay Resume . Resume writing program. Assists individuals in writing resumes through
use of templates. Best for basic resumes and first time resume creators. Can be
more challenging than using Microsoft Word for advanced users who want to significantly
modify their resume format.
- Use MS Word to Write Your Resume . You can access MS Word on a One-Stop Center computer
to write your resume.
- Links to online Resume Writing Guides
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Build Your Skills
- CLW Math & Reading . Basic math and reading skills assessment. Assists with
determining customers’ aptitude skill levels necessary for pursuing various
careers. Also has a personal interest, aptitude and values inventory.
- Employability & Work Maturity . Contains effective work development information.
Has interactive skill building exercises for reinforcing good work ethics. Features
information on Career Decision Making (Self Assessment, Information About Jobs and
Career Decisions), Job Seeking Skills (Finding a Job, Job Search Documents and Interviewing
for a Job), and Work Maturity Skills (Employer’s Expectations, Job Performance,
Interpersonal Skills, Increasing Your Value to Your Employer and Personal Finance).
- Mavis Beacon . Self-paced keyboarding/typing learning tool for beginning to advanced
users. For beginning, can be used to teach basic keyboarding. For advanced, can
be used to increase accuracy and speed.
WorkCore
The WorkCore Pre-employment program is designed to bridge the gap between the basic
skills job applicants have and the workplace skills employers are seeking. Greenville
County WIA registered clients may inquire about WIA sponsorship with your case manager.
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WorkKeys assessments give students and workers reliable, relevant information about
their workplace skill levels. Combined with information about skill levels required
for jobs, assessments information can help users make better career and educational
decisions. The WorkKeys system is the most efficient assessment process available.
WIA offers WorkKeys® Assessments and Profiling. Please click here for more information about WorkKeys®
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KeyTrain/ WIN
KeyTrain is the complete interactive training system for the WorkKeys basic workplace
skills. KeyTrain provides a comprehensive learning system for common skills required
by all jobs, based on ACT’s WorkKeys employments system.
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Job Training
Search
for Approved Training Programs
ETP Training Provider Websites:
Special Programs:
If you are interested in applying to become a Greenville County Eligible Training
Provider please review the Initial Application Instructions then complete the Providers of Training Services Initial Application.
Upon completion, submit the application by email to
Holly Burts or fax it to her attention at: 864-467-8151.
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Research Employers
Where to obtain this information:
- Libraries
- Company annual reports
- Company visits
- Informational interviews
- Observation of employees leaving work
- Current/former employees
- Newspapers
- Business organizations (Chamber of Commerce, etc.)
- Industry directories
- Internet (company home page)
- Local One-Stop Career Center
Using the information in your job search:
- Determine which job openings sound interesting.
- Conduct your research using the tips in this JobShop Brief.
- Complete an information sheet for the job and the company for each job opening that
interests you.
- Compare this information with your interests, knowledge, skills, abilities, salary/fringe
requirements and other needs.
- Decide whether it is worth your time to apply for this job.
- If the answer is “no”, don’t waste your time.
- If the answer is “yes”, go for it!
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Job Club
Peer to Peer networking opportunity; information sharing on the best strategies.
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Tell Us About Your Success
Did you utilize a One-Stop Service to find your job? Tell us about it – we’d
love to reward you with a gift certificate in return for answering a few simple
questions! Your feedback is important to help us develop new and better services:
info@greenvillewib.com
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Contact Us
An equal opportunity employer/program. Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities. TTY: 711
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