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Keep your job : a workbook to help you keep your job

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This work-related guide uses stories and exercises to help Albertans with low literacy skills keep their job. Easy Reading Keep Your Job covers important topics such as: what employers want,... More ≫

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This work-related guide uses stories and exercises to help Albertans with low literacy skills keep their job. Easy Reading Keep Your Job covers important topics such as: what employers want, building good work skills and attitudes, workplace rights and responsibilities and making sure their job is a good fit. Readers are encouraged to contact their career advisor or tutor for help when using this book.

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Work and you book 1 : make some job choices

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This is the first of two Work and You Books in the Easy Reading Career Planning Series. The series is written at a grade 2 to 3 reading level. It helps adults with low literacy or English as... More ≫

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This is the first of two Work and You Books in the Easy Reading Career Planning Series. The series is written at a grade 2 to 3 reading level. It helps adults with low literacy or English as Second Language expand their knowledge of occupations and choose an occupational goal. In the Work and You Books, this occupational goal is described as the "best job". This was done to help readers clearly identify their top occupational choice (goal) from among a number of other satisfactory choices. Work and You Book 1: Make Some Job Choices - This workbook uses stories and exercises to help adults with low literacy choose an occupational (job) goal. They will do a brief self-assessment, learn about different jobs and create a list of 1 to 3 jobs to investigate. Work and You Book 2: Decide on a Job - In this workbook, adults with low literacy research and evaluate the short list of jobs they created in Work and You Book 1. In the end they will choose an occupational goal to pursue.

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Work and you : help for career advisors

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Work and You books encourage adults with low literacy skills to seek the support of a career advisor or tutor to help them with their career decision-making. Work and You Help for Career Advisors... More ≫

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Work and You books encourage adults with low literacy skills to seek the support of a career advisor or tutor to help them with their career decision-making. Work and You Help for Career Advisors is an online guide for career advisors and tutors to help and support clients. Each chapter in the guide: - outlines the objectives of each step, as well as related exercises and corresponding page numbers from the Work and You books; - provides notes for advisors and topics for discussion with clients; - provides optional activities to do with clients; - has links to readily available resources.

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Advanced techniques for work search

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This workbook is designed to help self-directed adults who have either experience in the workforce or post-secondary education and training to improve their work search strategies. Learn to sell... More ≫

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This workbook is designed to help self-directed adults who have either experience in the workforce or post-secondary education and training to improve their work search strategies. Learn to sell your skills in today's competitive job market using portfolios, proposals, cover letters, resumés and curricula vitae. Features information on networking, information interviewing, using the Internet in your work search and formatting and tailoring your resumé.

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Adult back to school planner

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This booklet is part of a planning series that includes Career Planner and Education and Training Planner. It is written at a lower literacy level. This booklet is written for adults who are... More ≫

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This booklet is part of a planning series that includes Career Planner and Education and Training Planner. It is written at a lower literacy level. This booklet is written for adults who are planning to go back to school. It will increase their personal management, learning and work exploration, and improve their ability to make life/work decisions. It will help them: Understand how returning to school may require them to make changes in other areas of their life; explore time management, problem-solving, stress management and balancing life and school; understand the importance of asking for help and ways to do it; consider the advantages and disadvantages of various training options that suit their needs; think about how personal decisions impact them and others; create a short-term action plan to prepare for their future; connect with further information and resources.

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