Jessica Evans

Location: seymour, ct

About me

I have a long history of human resources experience and have been transitioning into a job placement assistance position where I am currently employed. I welcome any tips on ways to sucessfully approach companies for placement of my graduates.

Skills

human resources, data entry, administration, office management

Website

https://www.allstatetraining.com

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Jessica Evans

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How to address physical skills testing.

My school is a hands on training school teaching a trade. Our classroom is purely informative with an open book test during one of the few classroom times. I am having difficulty marrying the idea of a different way approach learning styles when ultimately to pass the test the student will have to perform a sequence of tasks in a specific order in front of a state agency. How can you approach a physical test for a auditory learner?

Jessica Evans

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New Graduate Surveys

We have not instituted a policy for student surveys as of yet but it is something the director is interested in. I was leaning towards an email survey as opposed to a regular letter. Our focus is on hands on training with minimal class room hours. I am thinking that asking our graduates who are all laborers to mail a survey back will not yield the results we are looking to document. 1. Is this method too informal? 2. How far back should I pull grad data from? (I was thinking at least the last year is a good time… >>>

Jessica Evans

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Resume Editing - How far back should your resume go?

Some of my graduates have decades of experience at many jobs so their resumes can be lengthy. Generally as a rule I know that most human resources would prefer to see a concise resume on one page. For example in the case of someone who has a solid work history dating back to the seventies who changed jobs every five or six years what do you date back to? The last twenty years? The last five positions held? Or in the case of a younger person who has changed positions frequently.

Jessica Evans

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How to motivate students to get involved in job placement

The students are usually long term unemployed. And many of them have finally turned to the state agency because their benefits are running out. The problem we seem to be seeing is that the agency that awarded the grant is suggesting they use our job placement assistance services so the student thinks it is required. Our services in many ways duplicates the agency services.

Jessica Evans

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How to motivate students to get involved in job placement

Many of the participants in our training program are coming through state grant programs and many times it is difficult to get participation since they are already working with a state agency. What are some fresh ideas for getting better participation rate (besides repetitive voice mail messages)?

Jessica Evans

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Getting complete job placement data

When a student is placed we conduct a brief survey typically over the phone within the first few weeks of employment. My position is transitioning into job development and personally some the questions seem very sensitive to me and in the past students have been offended. How do you approach asking the student for sensitive information such as current pay rate and employment contacts?

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