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Job Support Group Leader Newsletter
June 2006
In This Issue:
Leaders and Work Ministry: key support issues
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Welcome to Job Support Groups that have just joined us!
First Presbyterian Church
Las Vegas, NV
St. Catherine of Siena
Farmingdale, NJ
Job market talking points
The first two months of the 2006 have produced over 400,000 new jobs and a current unemployment rate of 4.8%. Job gains primarily occurred in construction, financial services and health care. The job market for 2006 looks very promising for job seekers.
Now is the time to encourage your job seekers to bring their "A" game to the job search process. Employers are getting very active in their recruiting efforts, making decisions more quickly to get job seekers on board. You can help your clients with reviews and improvements to their resumes as well as help with their presentation skills. As you fully appreciate, it’s the best-prepared job seeker who often gets the job, and not always the best qualified.
Job search successes
A B2B Marketing pro spent fourteen months in job search and accepted a 30 day temporary assignment. The client company had a low level marketing position in the budget, but way below the skill sets offered by the Marketing pro. Over a month period, he continually demonstrated his skills and abilities in Marketing, added value to projects, was given an extension of the project time and continued his assignments. The company management team (President, Marketing head etc,) concluded that they needed to hire the Marketing pro, re-wrote the job description, more than doubled the base pay, added a bonus plan and made him an offer. Successfully networking within the company was key to the opportunity. The company "didn’t know what it didn’t know" about marketing until he showed them his stuff.
Connecting with employers
Helping employers and job seekers is all about getting the specifications right. There are three basic questions for an employer:
- What skills and experience do you Need?
- What skills and experience do you Want? (usually more than the Needs stated)
- What would it take to meet or exceed your Expectations?
Meeting the Needs of the employer is not enough to get to a job offer. The candidate who understands the Wants and Expectations of the employer and connects his/her skills and training to those issues is better positioned for hiring decisions. Helping job seekers understand the Needs, Wants and Expectations of employers is an essential role of job support groups and leaders.
Best ideas in job search
The elevator speech is "on message" when a job seeker states:
- What he/she does, (perhaps adding where it was done)
- The three or four core competencies he/she has for the next employer
- What he/she is looking for
- Target companies
These four components are essential to "branding" the job seeker product. Everything else is "off message" and less productive to the networking process. Encourage your job seekers to get on message and focus on their brand identity for success in networking.
Special Announcement
Work Ministry has launched a radio advertising effort to build awareness of job support groups. Ads are running on Relevant Radio, the regional network of 13 stations in the Midwest and Southeast. Average listening audience per sponsorship announcement is 100-200,000+. We anticipate more activity for job support groups, calls for assistance by churches and communities interested in forming job support groups, and employer job postings.
Leaders and Work Ministry: key support issues
We hope our site and content plus a growing list of job leads is helping you in achieving your goals for your group. Please contact us with ideas and needs that would be helpful to you. Here's a short list of areas where we welcome your help:
- employer postings: can you note client companies using workministry.com in your emails and meetings with your group?
- job leads: please get job posts out to your group, follow up with the group for any updates and referrals. Ideally, all referrals should use the website process to apply for job posts.
- job market leads: if you learn about employers in your area that are adding to staff, an email to us would be most helpful. We would like to get those jobs posted on the site for your group access and follow up.
Have a success story or best ideas for job search to share? Send an email to leader@workministry.com.
Reminder:
Workministry.com has a growing list of job posts as well as continual improvement in resources for JSG Leaders and job seekers. Please make a
point of asking your group members to check the site, review the job posts and respond or send along to a friend, relative or former group
member.
Editor’s Note:
The Job Support Group Leader newsletter and message board are all about you. Our goal is to create a forum for
sharing information that helps you fulfill your mission. If you have feedback, ideas or suggestions for either the newsletter or the message
board, please send email to: leader@workministry.com.
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