1. Tips on Impressions! Job Fair
Attend seminar to learn a presentation you can adapt to help seekers build a bridge to employment - at job fairs!
Thank, intro Charlotte, Dena, Cindy
WFC resources
Plan 4 D’s (CJS train the trainer message to accommodate all learners)
Describe big picture
Demonstrate Just 6 screen today, all online
“DO” Worksheet for 30 second elevator speech!
Silently (accommodate introverts)
Discussion Q & A with audience reflections on
What you heard How you might use the info
"Tips on Job Fair Impressions - Plus a presentation to recreate for your customers!" Employers come to job fairs to MEET job seekers, to get a feel for candidates, not necessarily to hire. So, the job seeker's goal should be to network or build a bridge to employment. Attend this seminar to learn how to help job seekers "make conversation" about themselves or to gain a presentation you can individualize and reuse! The power point, notes, and a worksheet from Creative Job Search workbook will be available. 
Objectives Tips for “making conversation” at a job fair
Presentation ideas to revise and use with their own job seekers
More about MN WorkForce Center resources

2. Resources “Look" smart http://bit.ly/1xpUmUJ
Body language
Job Fairs
Elevator speech
Working a Job Fair andthe-good-again-au-teena-rose-articles-a1287.html
This presentation is based on Creative Job Search (CJS) principles used in MN WorkForce Center workshops, blogs, books, workbooks, etc. “How People Find Work” MN WorkForce Centers Resumes, interviews, job fairs, etc..
Employers at job fairs, hiring events
Despite online applications, other processes
Even tho time = money, not at workplace
Paid a booth fee too
Why? Reports from 3 mines
US Steel only accepts resumes online but comes to job fairs & told us why:
Promote job openings
Meet & get to know applicants
Connect a face to a name (HR remembers names on apps surprisingly well)
Help skilled people succeed in the process (resume tips)
Market jobs to qualified job seekers
Magnetation still looking for the BIG fish
“Hardworking” on website
“Hardworking” in Sean’s head
He came to train WFC staff
ArcelorMittal
Remembers names, online apps, knows if applied more than once!
Despite the fact that mining companies historically receive 1,000+ applications per hourly opening

3. Fear
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Quote from Mahatma Gandhi:
Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.
What thoughts are in the way?
Fear of success AND Threat of failure
Sort it out 1 minute silence
Charlotte’s story “Overbearing”
Learning from Dena, an introvert
Introvert Customer in 4 year college program
Mining Industry Day 1st year, 800 people so didn’t go
2nd year, came, well dressed w resume, talked to Dena
3rd year, came, well dressed (trimmed beard), resumes,
talked to Dena & talked to 4 employers
He built bridges Employers had visited the college
Most of us have less than 4 years to learn this

4. Customer Wanted interview help
Wore one of these to meet with me
Asked my advice
Justified wrist band - $ for cancer research
Give yourself credit for preparations:
Clothes Business casual or better: button shirt, tucked in,
belt, overall clean & well groomed
Appearance No jeans with holes, hoodies, tennis shoes, hats,
no “message” clothes (sample in photo)
Preparations Websites, job listings, resumes, practice, networking

5. Thinking by Walter Wintle
If you think you are beaten, you are, If you think you dare not, you don’t. If you like to win, but you think you can’t, It is almost certain you won’t.
If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost, For out in the world we find, Success begins with a fellow’s will. It’s all in the state of mind.
Life’s battles don’t always go To the stronger or faster man. But soon or late the man who wins, Is the man who thinks he can.”
(written in late 19th or early 20th century)
So what do employers want, why is it worth it to them to go to Job Fairs?
Marketing In part
Marketing jobs more so
Hire “hardworking”
1st impressions – impact, memorable
Face to face with job seekers
“Fishing”
Streamline process
Difficulties with Online
Interviews, meet once
Assessments, references
Hiring $1 million decision
Firing is awful
Employers expectations of YOU (not ask what the business does)
Prepared
Researched
Introduction
“Make conversation”

6. Redefine Success BEST you can hope to for today? Get HIRED!
More likely? Line up an interview
Get a business card
Name recognition
Bridge the distance
Be remembered
How? Make conversation about work skills!
May take months to get hired - redefine success at JOB FAIR
Do Result Success
Preparation Feel confident Shake hands
Look at eyes Appear intelligent Make conversation
Listen Hear Give back
Think Appropriate words Dialogue continues
No job now Could change Bridge to work
Talk Describe past work Better understand skills
75-80% of jobs filled thru networking!
Employers often revisit application or resume at office
Start the conversation with words
from the job ad
cultural “FIT”

7. This is an actual job as listed in www.MinnesotaWorks.net in 2014
US Steel Critiques resumes at job fairs
Expects to hear how skills that match job
so use the words in the ad, KISS!
What words would YOU use from this job ad?
Job title Miner? Haul truck driver?
Utility Person!
Soon – today, we’ll do the following – aloud!
30 second elevator speech
Choose A company
A job
A work story

8. Words I see Bold above
Applicant could Use same words to “fit” psychologically
or match in a computer resume
to create objective, tagline, brand
the HIRE-ME “package”
US Steel Reviews resumes at job fairs
Often do not meet threshold requirement-
“1 year of manufacturing/industrial experience”
Define ONE year or more clearly
Describe duties in detail
Worked at L & M Radiator doesn’t mean duties were
MANUFACTURING/INDUSTRIAL
I wouldn’t be there, maybe the office!

9. Just DO it! Start State your message, include job title
Build Applied online
Heard word of mouth
Name drop
Tie in words from company (vision, mission, etc.)
Conversation Use KEYwords from job ads = “fit”
Describe a past work experience Created 5 minute
Specific story No one sleeps
Explain how you work Used silence
What coworkers say
Ask Something you’d like to find out
Something that shows you researched
1 minute silence STAR (or SHARE) to build out a work story
Situation Task
Action Result
Like resume, convince with Attitude Numbers Stories
This afternoon’s class!

10. The WINNER gets HIRED! Inspiring TED talk by Amy Cuddy
20 minutes on convincing yourself!
Search for Amy Cuddy on internet (listed on 1st page “resources”)
Get audience to do Pride Pose
5K runners, even blind
Animals
Not fake it til you make it
Fake it til you become it
Your body language can convince YOU

11. Page 22 above from Creative Job Search (workbook, not book)
30 second elevator speech
Choose company, job, conversation
Silently (accommodate introverts)
Objectives Tips for “making conversation” at a job fair
Presentation ideas to revise and use with their own job seekers
More about MN WorkForce Center resources
Q & A with Discussion and audience reflections on
What you heard
How you might use the info
Portable microphone? (accommodate introverts)

12. Charlotte Hanegmon, Dena Edstrom, Cindy Noponen
Learn to give a 5-minute
resume demonstration
Charlotte Hanegmon, Dena Edstrom, Cindy Noponen
Attendees will hear, see, then PERFORM their own version, one-on-one, with other attendees. Notes and a sample resume will be provided for adaptation back at work. This presentation is meant to offer professionals: 1) a solution to that frequent customer request for immediate information on resumes 2) tips on how to write a GOOD resume that appeals to employers 3) a preview of the MN WorkForce Center workshops and
This afternoon!
Charlotte will teach you her “5 Minute Resume Demonstration!” Another bridge to employment!
Objectives A 5 minute response to job seekers who want resume help right NOW
Resume tips based on what employers hire
Exposure to and WFC workshops