Budgets are tight and we are constantly being asked to do more with less. See what happened when RochesterWorks! partnered with Career Navigator to engage dislocated workers. This collaboration served as a win-win for career center staff efficiency, job seeker engagement, and created greater awareness of their services in the community. This session will share how to easily track services and increase outcomes using GPS Teams; strategies for working with hard-to-serve populations with less resources; strategies to increase staff productivity; and using the community to build program awareness. Presented by Deidre Dutcher, Hannah Morgan and Todd Sloane of RochesterWorks!

1. Career
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Navigator
A Training Program for
Job Search Success
Deidre.Dutcher@gmail.com
585-330-6135
Watch the video at our website: CareerNavigatorProgram.com

2. Who is the ideal Career Navigator©
Candidate?
Job Seekers who:
• Want to find a job quickly or,
• Are motivated to look for work.
• Have a solid work history or,
• Are ready and able to take a job.
• Do not need, want or qualify for additional types of
training or,
• Have completed training.
• Professionals, veterans, graduates, career changers,
dislocated workers.

4. Why
Career
Navigator©?
• Referrals + Career Sites* + SoMe
Recruiters >50%
*Career Sites defined as Company Websites
• Mid-sized companies added 2
million workers in the last 2 years.
(Businesses with sales between $10
million and a billion dollars annually:
factories, construction companies,
professional services.)

5. What is
Career Navigator©?
Our multi-dimensional approach incorporates
• Mechanics – Marketing Plan, Social Media,
Networking, Interviewing, STAR Stories, Resume
• Practice – Daily presentations, mock interviewing,
speed networking, repetition
• EQ – Dealing with job loss, managing relationships at
home, successfully transitioning into new employment,
lifetime career management

6. • 5 Full Days of Learning
– Sets the pace, increases productivity
• Proactive vs. Reactive
– Marketing Plan vs. Resume
– Target Lists

7. • Participant Centered
• Group Dynamics
• Skill Building Exercises

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Critically necessary skills and drills
Boot camp environment
Address the human side of job loss (EQ)
Team dynamics create support & confidence

10. Hannah Morgan

11. The Results
RochesterWorks Summary Report
August 2009 through June 2013
1711 Participants
Average Age
Average Income
% Reporting Employment
Average Days to Employment
Median Days to Employment
51
$58,997
40%
95
73
USDOL Bureau of Labor Statistics (Oct 2013)
Average Days to Employment
255
Median Days to Employment
118

12. GPS Team Certification
• Run your own GPS
Teams
• Use Create multiple
groups, specific focus
groups
• Use our proven process
and materials for
success
• Highly structured Team process creates activity,
accountability, motivation, results!
• Maintains group cohesiveness.
• Over 1,700 LinkedIn CN Group members provide
continued support and networking opportunities.

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RochesterWorks
Niagara County WorkSourceOne
Finger Lakes Works
CSS Workforce NY
WDI
Buffalo-Erie County
Dutchess County
Veterans
Bausch & Lomb
Sikorsky

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Background
RW Career Center Benefits
Enrollment Process - scalable
Search Teams – structure and benefits
Self-sustaining model

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Piloted during the WIRED grant
Now largely self-sustaining for over four years
Funded as a Short-term Prevocational Service
Found on ETPL under “Career Navigator”

16. • Engaging “disconnected” DW’s
• Rapid time-to-reemployment (65 days vs. 35+
weeks)
• Reduction in exiting while receiving UI #’s
• ED by re-employment and appropriate
employment of these individuals

17. • Our goal – reduce barriers to participation, use
technology to reduce staffing expense, engage
professional DW’s.
• Process: Social Media promotion > self-application >
Electronic pre-screening > enrollment of prequalified candidates
• Other methods...

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Weekly Accountability Group
Cohort Model
Staff-directed > Self-directed
Cross-referral to other center services
Time-to-reemployment 2/3 that of training without
Search Teams

19. • Social Media “Graduate” promotion.
• Linked In Group, Facebook, twitter integration.
• Cost-benefit: especially as it relates to transferable
skills.

20. • Engagement of professional DW’s
• Rapid time to appropriate employment for these
individuals
• Higher rates of employment for these individuals and
the community

21. • I am leaving out a lot of the details that we have
learned through “the school of hard knocks” so…
• If you have any questions about implementation at
your site, now or after today, please ask!
• Todd Sloane, Career Services Advisor,
RochesterWorks!, tsloane@rochesterworks.org,
585.262.7527

22. How to Contact Career Navigator©
Deidre.Dutcher@gmail.com
585-330-6135
Watch the video at our website: CareerNavigatorProgram.com