Film: "Celebrate What"s Right With the World"

This film talked about the unlimited possibilities in life. Change is our ally in taking us to the next opportunity. By letting ourselves go to the edge in change and opportunity, we will find that wonderful things will happen in our lives.

Jay Rockwood:
Jay Rockwood is the San Jose Employment Specialist for the LDS Church covering the 11 Stake areas of the South Bay. He has worked for over 30 years in the Electronics/Semiconductor Industry of Silicon Valley. He has worked for start up companies and established companies such as Hewlett Packard, Seagate and General Instruments. His background discipline is management in material control and helping people with employment challenges.

His formal education came from the University of Utah.

"Where People Find Jobs"

-He gave some interesting statistics:

-Where people look for jobs:

Networking 5%
Agencies 22
Want Ads/Internet 65
Approaching Companies 3
Other 5

-Where people find jobs:

Networking 60-80%
Agencies 10-20
Want Ads/Internet 5-15
Approaching Companies 5-15

-Size of companies where jobs are found:

1 to 19 Employees 25%
20 to 99 Employees 30
100 to 499 Employees 26
500 to 999 Employees 7
1000 + Employees 12

-He made the following suggestions:

1. Build a network of people you know who can either help you directly or lead
you to someone else or to more information.
2. Develop a 30-Second Summary Statement (sometimes referred to as an
elevator speech) about yourself that you can use to introduce yourself.
3. Develop a Power Statement that summarizes your major strengths and
briefly describes:

-an achievement you have made,
-a challenge you faced,
-the actions you took to overcome the challenge, and
-the results of your actions.

"Developing and Improving Your Resume"

He covered the following areas:

1. Guidelines for resumes to be scanned.
2. Resume styles and formats

He then reviewed several sample resumes and discussed their strengths and weaknesses.

Don and Bess Huefner:
Don and Bess Huefner are full time Employment Missionaries for the LDS Church, serving as employment specialists out of the Concord, California Employment Office.
They have both previously served as full time Employment Missionaries at the Chicago Employment Office. Don has been self employed for over 30 years running his own maintenance and gardening supply company in Utah.

His formal education came from Utah State University.

"How to Do Well in an Interview and
How to Follow Up"

They covered the following areas:

1. Frequently Asked Questions:
Since most employers ask the same basic questions, smart job seekers prepare their answers long before an interview is scheduled. They discussed questions frequently asked by employers and schools, along with some ideas on how you might answer each one.

2. Behavioral Interviewing:
Behavioral questions allow an employer to see how you react or "behave" under certain situations. First, try to understand why the employer might be asking the question. Then, provide specific examples that walk the employer through your thought process as you develop your answer. They discussed a list of typical behavioral questions along with things an employer might expect to see in an answer.

3. How to open and close an interview.

4. Why applicants fail to get jobs.

5. A checklist for preparing for your interview.

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