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What can we do to help people get employed?

The United States government has funded programs across the nation to offer assistance to people who are unemployed.

Your community offers several of these programs at no cost.

Many programs across the nation utilize resources designed by Milt Wright & Associates, Inc.

Pathways: A Job Search Curriculum

Crossroads: Enhancing Self-Esteem and
Motivation in the Workplace

Beyond Traditional Job Development:
The Art of Creating Opportunity

and

Cultivating True Livelihood: Work in the 21st Century
An Activity-Based Placement Curriculum

For the past 18 years, Milt Wright & Associates, Inc. has published training resources for employment and training professionals. We continue to offer excellent products and training to our customers. To aid in the rescue of job seekers, we are offering many of our products at a reduced rate.

If your organization is not currently utilizing these resources, Milt Wright & Associates, Inc. can help by offering consultation, training and tools to respond to the demand for effective employment services.

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CULTIVATING TRUE LIVELIHOOD:
WORK IN THE 21^ST CENTURY

Resources For Activity–Based Placement

WHAT IS ACTIVITY-BASED PLACEMENT?

Activity-based placement is an approach to employment service embracing the philosophy that job seekers should never be without an assignment, an activity or something to do for which they are accountable for specific and measurable results. Its chief aim is to empower and enable clients with the skills, abilities and information to carry out their own job search. Cultivating True Livelihood, consisting of over 140 activities, provides the resources upon which activity-based placement may be implemented.

Each activity provides one or a combination of assignments, lessons, surveys and tasks presented as small, incremental steps with achievable ends. From thought-provoking motivational assessments to hands-on community based projects, clients are equipped with the necessary structure and guidance to maintain full and useful participation in an intelligent, well-managed job search campaign. From the seasoned and experienced worker to the first time job seeker, activity-based employment is individualized to ensure that everyone is involved to the greatest degree possible in their own job search process.

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF ACTIVITY-BASED PLACEMENT?

Benefits to Administration:

	Enhanced ability to increase job placement and job retention rates
	An affordable way to increase the quality, scope, depth and breadth of services provided without increasing staff or adding to their present workload but by changing the focus and context of the work they are doing now
	Enhanced ability for the program or agency to apply for funding and serve a wider range of job seekers
	More effective use of staff time and resources by providing the tools for the delivery of more group services rather than the prevalent one-on-one model, thus enabling staff to serve more people in less time
	Increasing the quality of services provided by making available to staff state-of-the-art materials and resources reflecting present day realities and strategies for the 21^st century work world

Benefits to Staff:

	Increased ability to meet placement goals
	Enhanced ability to serve more people in less time through the use of ready made tools for individual or group instruction
	Enhanced ability to supervise, manage and evaluate the effectiveness of an individual’s job search
	More time and less stress due to enhanced ability to delegate activities to job seekers that they would ordinarily perform themselves
	Having a structured way of discriminating between job seekers who are truly committed to becoming employed from those who are not
	Having a way to work effectively with individuals who exhibit marginal employability skills without compromising the agency’s reputation by enabling job seekers to present themselves to employers

Benefits to Job Seekers:

	Enhanced ability to develop employment suited to their individual values, needs, abilities and interests
	Enhanced self-esteem, confidence and feeling of control in their lives through active involvement in an individualized job search plan
	Increased focus and power in daily activities by being accountable to self and others for meeting measurable, achievable ends
	Opportunity to build relationships and personal networks through involvement with other job seekers in group activities such as support groups, workshops and job clubs
	Development of skills which will serve them throughout their work lives

Typical Job Search Resources	Cultivating True Livelihood
Offer a piecemeal approach to the job search, focusing on either the motivational and personal power aspects of the vocational process or practical job search tools. Assessment and counseling tools are often not included or are a separate curriculum. Vocational training, job search skills development and job placement are treated by staff and experienced by job seekers as separate processes.	Offers a comprehensive curriculum including motivation, assessment, self-esteem, barrier removal, job search and job retention issues. Provides activities and tools for use in vocational training, the assessment process, job search skill development, job club and job placement, treating the various components as part and parcel of one holistic process.
Counselor driven – the responsibility and onus of the job placement process lies with the employment service staff rather than the job seekers themselves. This approach fosters dependence on the part of job seekers and puts undue pressure on staff. Agency staff feel accountable to produce positive outcomes in job seekers’ lives.	Participant driven – job seekers are delegated the maximum amount of responsibility and onus for the job placement process, fostering increased self–esteem and independence. Job seekers are accountable to peers, staff and themselves for producing positive outcomes in and for their own lives.
Promote the philosophy that any job is a good job. Focus is placed on attainment of short-term goal of employment with little or no attention to job retention.	Promotes focus on short-term objective of employment as well as long-term goal of true livelihood, promoting the philosophy that job retention will result from attainment (or development) of a position well matched to the person’s interests, abilities, values and desires.
Assume a high level of sophistication on the part of the facilitator or require training for selected staff members.	Does not assume prior facilitation experience and/or job search knowledge on behalf of the facilitator. Includes step-by-step facilitator instructions for each activity, detailed planning tools for each course, and facilitator tips, guidelines and recommendations for starting and implementing workshops and job clubs. Provides tools and promotes participation by all staff members.

Typical Job Search Resources	Cultivating True Livelihood
Assume either a low or high level of literacy and ability on the part of the participants. Rarely offer the full spectrum of job search techniques necessary to meet the diverse needs of participants in a one-stop delivery system.	Designed to meet the needs of participants on all levels of ability. Includes activities for the first time job seeker as well as activities for the most sophisticated and experienced job seeker. Ideal for the one-stop shop!
Reflect outdated 20^th century work world values, practices, and mindset (e.g., reacting and competing solely for positions that already exist, limited to seeking "regular" employment in markets where employers are seeking alternative employee relationships, take the "apply and wait" approach to the job search.)	Reflects 21^st century work world values, practices, and mindset (e.g., job creation techniques, consideration of a variety of employment options and employer-employee relationships, focus on growing one’s marketability over time and viewing themselves as a microenterprise, respond to the world around them as a potential market, embrace "the ball is always in my court" approach to the work search.)
In order to increase placements, agency must increase staff (requiring additional financial outlay) and/or increase the workload of present staff already working at maximum capacity.	With the implementation of activity-based placement, placement rates may be increased through the enhanced expenditure of time and effort on the part of job seekers, thereby raising agency effectiveness with the use of present staff working smarter, not harder.
Initial financial investment in facilitator curriculum and staff training with an ongoing financial burden of purchasing participant workbooks or materials.	A one-time financial investment in the curriculum with or without staff training with an ongoing right to duplicate participant materials at no extra cost to the agency.
Developed for use with clients either one-on-one or in groups, to be used either on site or at home.	Designed for use with clients both one-on-one and/or in groups, and to be used both on site and/or at home.

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