How to Assess Your Job Seeker Client
A job seeker client is a person looking for employment opportunities who consults with outplacement professionals or recruiters as a result of a layoff, termination, or simply to find a rewarding career. When assessing a job seeker client, identify his career interests, personal and financial needs to help him find rewarding employment. This includes interviewing and coaching the client, as well as using assessment tools.
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Assessing a Job Seeker
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Interview the job seeker to find out about her current situation and personal goals. Understand her current emotional state, and why she's seeking your assistance. This opens lines of communications in a more personal matter, and will assist you in finding an opportunity that best fits her needs.
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Administer assessment tools to qualify skills and personality. Assessment tools will help develop a profile for where the job seeker will excel in a future career. Skill assessments can be used to qualify current skills and uncover hidden talents. These assessments can also be used to identify characteristics of the job seeker to provide coaching for a successful job interview.
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Review and edit the job seeker's resume. Working with the job seeker, make appropriate changes to the resume by using better wording, different fonts, or arranging the resume to highlight areas that will attract employers. Understand the industry he currently works in, or the industry he wishes to work in, and make appropriate changes that will attract employers in that industry.
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Provide counseling to assist in the job search. After identifying the job seeker's personal needs, skills and career goals, develop a plan to help her with the employment search. Counseling should include interviewing preparation and tips, best places to search for a career, and self-promotion.
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