Coordinators:
Margaret Criner
Donna Beasley
Carolyn Goss

Target

This ministry focuses on people that need help in determining the right job and to train them step-by-step on how to locate that job and how to take control of their job search. In the current marketplace, traditional job-hunting methods usually don't work, or they work against you.

Changing a person's thinking about job hunting has a powerful and positive effect on getting hired. This attitude adjustment is the key to finding that right job.

Job training classes are two sessions per week for six months (Tuesdays and Thursdays)
Each session lasts approximately two hours. (6:00 pm - 8:00 pm)
Two field trips per month (on weekends)
Seminars & Job Fairs
Certificates of completion will be awarded at the end of the course.

Course Objectives:

• Develop the attitudes needed to find employment and to succeed on the job.
• Help identify skills which make a person employable
• Help establish realistic job goals
• Help locate employers who are most likely to need workers with certain skills
• Learn proven techniques to make the job search as productive as possible.
• Learn how to prepare a productive resume
• Learn the proper way to complete an application and to answer interview questions
• Learn budget management of income after employment is attained.
• Referral to Clothing Closet Ministry for a crash course in dressing for success, grooming and etiquette.

Empirical Data

The unemployment rate in Dallas (zip 75209) is 4.00 percent (U.S. avg. is 4.60%). Compared to the rest of the country, Dallas (zip 75209)'s cost of living is 37.45% Higher than the U.S. average. 

From 2000-2007, Texas median wages rose by only 23 cents, adjusted for inflation.

The Texas unemployment rate has risen from 4.3 percent (Oct.2007) to 5.6 percent (Oct. 2008).

For the first time in more than 30 years, Texas' labor force participation rate fell below the U.S. average in 2007.

Projected outcome of intervention

Individuals will move from need to self- sufficiency. We will assist those whom are unemployed or under employed in sustaining gainful employment.