Employability and Adult Basic Education Resources

Career Focus is a career exploration and preparation guide. This 32-page, full-color magazine combines essential guidance with web activities and “skill builder” opportunities to help prepare users for college and the workplace. Articles include:

• Identifying Possible Careers
• Sources for Career Information
• Career Clusters and Pathways
• Individual Career Plans
• Online Tools for Career Planning and Preparation
• 20 Personal Selling Points
• Getting Ready for College
• Finding Job Opportunities
• Managing Your Digital Dirt
• Strategies for Networking
• Skill Builder: Build a Personal Network
• Career Myths and Realities
• Skill Builder: Practice Introductions and Casual Conversation
• Acing any Interview - What You Need to Know
• Resumés that Stand Out for the Right Reasons
• Why Employers Might NOT Hire You
• Getting Back to Work: Re-Entry Strategies
• Skills Employers Want
• Putting Together the Education Puzzle
       
  

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We also have a special version of Career Focus for veterans who are leaving the military and transitioning to a civilian career. Career Focus: After Military Service (CS9018) walks veterans through five steps in making this transition: Self-assessment, exploring career interests and options, filling a skills gap, finding and applying for a job, and managing the career transition.

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Career Success Skills (BS3001) helps students develop the skills essential for planning for a career, applying for a job, and succeeding on the job. It also covers best practices in communication and etiquette. This publication is ideal for both high school and adult learners. Units include:

• Finding a Job
• Communication Skills

• Etiquette for Every Day
• Succeeding on the Job

This 30-page guide describes eight skills that employers want, why they want those skills, and how job seekers can build and demonstrate each skill. Employability Guide is a handy and essential resource for anyone preparing for their first job, changing jobs, or hoping to become more successful in their current workplaces!

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The Employability Skills Study Guide (0454SG) contains information needed to prepare for the Workplace Readiness Skills (0454) and Job Seeking & Retention Skills (0455) assessments. The study guide includes the standards used to develop the exam, test plans, sample questions, and test taking strategies. Assessments are available through CareerTech Testing. The study guide can be downloaded for free or purchased through CIMC.

The Employment Card (CS9050) will assist you in both your resume writing and job searching skills. This card contains lists of action verbs to help your resume stand out and information on how both companies and individuals look for jobs.

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All posters are 18"X24" unless otherwise indicated. To print on smaller paper, choose the "fit" option from your print menu. Some posters can also be ordered from our catalog.

• Download Fifty Ways to Lead (TA9215)
• Download Writing Transitions
• Download Language Arts
• Download Got an obstacle? Build a bridge
• Download Keys to Employability (TA9219 “workplace" design, TA9220 “abstract" design, TA9221 “yellow" design, TA9222 “mystery" design) 

Language Arts Activities (TA8215) includes 123 full-color activities, linked to Common Core standards, for teachers to print for student use. Activities on this CD address punctuation, capitalization, parts of speech, choosing the correct word, sentence structure, and writing (both fiction/creative and nonfiction/research).

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Navigating Your Future has valuable advice on job search techniques, interviewing via phone and live video, interview attire, and more. It includes samples of cover letters and resumes, along with forms students can use to prepare their own documents. Navigating Your Future also offers advice on how to answer tough interview questions, how follow up after an interview, and even how to resign from a job.
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Surviving and Thriving prepares high school students for adulthood by giving them the skills and knowledge they need to transition into college, other job training, or a career.

The full-color student edition includes “Knowledge Check,” “Career Spotlight,” and “Living Green” features in each unit. The teacher edition is done in a wrap-around format with plenty of suggested activities. The teacher resource CD includes all consumable student pages to print as needed, Powerpoint® presentations, tests in Word® and text formats, crossword puzzles, and more.

Units include:

• Communication Skills
• Understanding Self
• Making Decisions
• Leisure Activities
• Etiquette

• Personal Safety
  
• Understanding Grief and Loss of Life
• Choosing Food for Good Health
• Preparing Food

This free unit from the CIMC will improve learners’ ability to use words correctly and be more effective communicators. The thoughts, feelings, and information adult learners want others to know will be more clearly communicated if they use subjects and verbs that agree in number and words that express the meaning they intend. This file includes objectives and content, assignments, a written test, and answers. Using Words Correctly is ideal for competency-based instruction.

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