WorkNet International has an acclaimed series of seminars and workshops that are presented to organisations and conferences worldwide. WorkNet’s one, two, and three-day seminars allow you to immediately increase your consultancy skills along with your candidates’ success. Attend one of WorkNet International’s scheduled seminars in various countries, alternatively bring us in to train your staff, or be a leader in your community and host a seminar.

WorkNet’s seminars are fun and fast-paced, filled with true stories and practical ideas for making your job easier and you more effective.

Recession: It’s Different Now & What To Do About It
Employers hire differently during a recession so new strategies are required. With a high unemployment rate, employers can afford to screen people out for minor issues, so it’s no wonder that even those who would normally get jobs quickly are struggling. Because employers have more people to choose from, the generic pitches that have worked in the past don’t work now. Also, in tough times, employers hesitate to advertise in the open market for fear of being inundated with resumes that are costly to sort through. So, the good news is that even in this tough economy there are still millions of jobs available, but they remain unseen in the hidden market. In this hidden market, traditional tools like resumes and applications are largely ineffective. In fact, even in the open market over 90% of resumes and applications are screened-out before the interview. This workshop will discuss new strategies and show you how to find these hidden market jobs and the “side doors” that provide direct access to the people with the power to hire. Because WorkNet was created during the last major recession in the USA, the wisdom and practical techniques it offers have already been proven to work.

No One is Unemployable
Creative Solutions for Overcoming Barriers to Employment
Based on the “Top 10” book of the same name, this fast-paced seminar, full of practical techniques and new perspectives, will immediately increase your success with even the most difficult-to-place candidates. Come learn a proven 10 step process for identifying and overcoming any barrier – from the employer’s perspective. A few of the techniques you’ll learn include how to develop “good answers”, adjusting candidates’ negative outlooks, finding positions for candidates who are unable or unwilling to change, and making your candidates stand out from the crowd.

Mining for Gold in the Dark
Unearthing Great Resumes & Interview Answers for the Difficult-to-Place
Do you work with people who have little or no work history, or a work history so bad, you wish they had none? Internationally, we work successfully with the most difficult-to-place candidates, and we’ve learned that no one lives as long as your candidates have without gaining skills an employer needs – no one! Your job is to “mine those skills” so the employer is intrigued enough to bring them in for an interview, and impressed enough to offer them a job. Come learn how to ask the questions that help you avoid fool’s gold and strike the mother load – so you can create the resumes and good answers that get them hired. When possible, the final portion of this seminar will be spent creating selling points for resumes and good interview answers with actual job seekers.

Employer Cultivation
Wouldn’t it be great if employers came to you, instead of you always having to find them? Cultivating the right kind of relationships will produce employers who call you with job openings, trust your judgement about candidate referrals, and recommend you to their colleagues, benefiting both you and your candidates. You will learn how to answer difficult questions about your candidate base, funding, and agency, examine your employer marketing tools, and discover your employers’ priorities so you can create repeat business with this very important “other customer”.

Motivating Your Candidates
Getting Them to Work For Themselves, Instead of Against You
It’s their life . . . so why are you working harder at it than they are? Motivation is not something you can give your candidates, rather you must draw from within them what compels them to invest in their own career. In this seminar, we will teach you practical techniques and new approaches to discover and increase candidate motivation, and ensure that they remain motivated even when you are not in the room! A few of the tools presented include the Work Motivation Exercise, The Three Option Rule, which teaches personal responsibility, the 50/50 Rule, and the “Fear Factor”.

Raising the Bar
Creating A Successful Career Development Program for the Difficult-to-Place
Is your goal to help job candidates achieve “self-sufficiency”? Are your graduates currently self-sufficient? If not, you should consider the WorkNet Model of Career Development & Job Placement for the Difficult-to-Place. This proven model has produced a placement rate in the USA of nearly 85%, with a one-year retention rate of nearly 65% and more than 30% of candidates advancing in their careers in the first year on the job. Come discover the WorkNet Model and how to adapt it for your site. Some of the most exciting and immediate results you will see include entry-career job placement within four weeks of workshop graduation, candidates working with you rather than against you, increased candidate participation in follow-up, and greater employer satisfaction. Finally, your candidates will begin moving toward self-sufficiency!

Mission Possible
Job Search Strategies for the Difficult-to-Place
The job search process is a screen-out process, and many of our candidates end up in the trash. Our job is to help employers discover the candidate’s abilities, not their disabilities! By learning the “Eight Essential Questions” needed to develop an effective job search strategy, you will be able to create an individualised plan for any candidate. Special attention will be given to developing strategies for people with previous convictions, no work history, gaps in work history, changing fields, and no paid/verifiable work history. The discussion and case studies will increase your ability to determine which tools and approaches are best and worst for marketing various candidates.
When possible, the final portion of the seminar will be spent creating job search strategies for actual job seekers.

What Bosses Expect you to know but Don’t Tell You
The #1 reason our candidates are not hired or do not get promoted is that they don’t understand the Business Culture – so it’s our job to teach them! The problem is, we don’t know what they don’t know, so we don’t know what to teach them, plus it can be a touchy topic and we don’t want to offend anyone. This course will help you identify the differences between your candidates’ cultures and the local Business Culture, so you know what to teach. We will also share proven approaches and techniques to deal with the fear and defensiveness this topic often invokes. In the end, your candidates will be more employable and promotable, and you will increase your placement, retention, and advancement rates! When possible, the final portion of the seminar will be spent introducing the local Business Culture to actual job seekers, allowing you to observe how the “walls come down” and the “lights turn on”.

Road to Success:
Designing Career Paths and Advancing Toward the Dream
Do you become overwhelmed by your “difficult-to-place” candidates and settle for merely helping them get “a job” instead of moving them toward self-sufficiency in a career they love? Then this interactive, practical seminar is for you! We will introduce career assessment tools designed especially for people who don’t enjoy test-taking, don’t read well, and don’t want to return to school in order to have a career they enjoy, or can’t think beyond their immediate needs. You will learn how to discover each candidate’s Dream Job, identify an entry-career job they can secure immediately because they are the best qualified, and develop a path to move them toward their goals starting today. Plus, you will learn 10 “Secrets for Advancement” that work for even the most difficult-to-place, so they not only keep the job but get promoted! When possible, the initial portion of the seminar will be spent discovering the Dream Jobs of actual job seekers for application throughout the two days.

WorkNet’s Master Craftsman:
Proven Techniques for Working with the Difficult-to-Place
Helping your candidates get a job and build a career is much like building a home – if you lay a good foundation and use the right materials, the results are beautiful and lasting. So where do you make your investment? . . . up-front, so candidates are prepared to conduct a successful career job search, and return to your program as volunteers, mentors and guest speakers? . . . or, do you spend too much of your energy and creativity on the back end, “re-placing” candidates, locating those who have disappeared, and “re-motivating” candidates who have been job searching for months? In this seminar, WorkNet’s “master craftsmen” will present our top ten tools to build powerful relations with each candidate and the community to get the results you want. You will learn how to help each candidate internalise the lessons being taught, how to teach candidates to make good decisions and build a 50/50 partnership so they take responsibility for their own lives, and how to say “the hard things”. If you have been in the field for a while, you will learn new ways of using old tools. If you are new, we will teach you tools you never knew existed and you will be more effective from the start!

Where Have All the Clients Gone?
Follow-up & Retention Strategies
Does all your hard work quickly unravel once candidates get on the job? Do you have difficulty getting them to call you back? Do they quit first, then call you? Do you dread the “follow-up phone call” as much as they do? If so, this seminar is for you. We will help you discover what’s going wrong, learn to place candidates in jobs that automatically increase your retention rate, and ask the questions that help your candidates stay on the job.

For more information about our seminars and workshops, contact info@worknet-international.com