1. Job Keeping Skills Lesson Two

2. Objectives • Five principles to help job seekers • Get recognized as leaders • Advance in their careers

3. Principle One: Be At Work • Showing up to work every day is the first step to being recognized as a hard worker • Get to work early • Be present throughout the workday • Return from all breaks early or on-time

4. Principle One: Be At Work • The fastest way to secure a promotion is to get a job and keep the job

5. Frequently Asked Question • Why did the employer schedule the customer for fewer hours at work?

6. Principle Two: Get Along With Others • A majority of individuals are terminated because they do not get along well with others • Maintain a professional attitude • Deal with difficult situations carefully and respectfully

7. Frequently Asked Question • How do we help or empower customers to manage their relationships at work successfully? • Accept that everyone has to manage challenging relationships • Facilitate learning opportunities

8. Principle Two: Get Along With Others • Teach job seekers to “RESPECT” others at work • Reverence for others • Encourage others to share ideas • Share praise • Peacekeepers • Examine behaviors • Criticism of others must be used carefully • Treat others as you want to be treated

9. Principle Three: Be the Expert • Workforce customers must become subject matter experts • Learn their jobs • Be available to help others • Network • Know names • Know faces • Know needs

10. Principle Four: Grow • There are two components associated with this principle • Take classes and develop skills • Take on projects outside of comfort zones

11. Principle Five: Do Not Quit • Like principle one, this principle requires workforce customers to remain employed • Customers should move to better jobs without disconnecting from employment altogether

12. Conclusion • During this lesson, we discussed the principles of climbing the career ladder • Be at work • Get along with others • Be the expert • Grow • Do not quit