Classes for Skill Building

Building Your Resume: Advice and tips on crafting a concise, stylish resume.  Tips for using active vocabulary; and advice on layout.  

Weekly Connection: Discuss current job openings, learn about resources in the area, discuss services and events, and work on developing and/or refining skills.

Building Your Cover Letter: Advice and tips on creating a custom cover letter.  Tips for using active vocabulary; and advice on layout.  

Living Your Colors: Identifying personal strengths, effective communication, working effectively with others, temperament work styles and interpersonal relations.

Get Ready for That Interview: Skills identification, increasing awareness of position requirements, answering interview questions, making a good impression and closing the interview.

Job Market / Your Skills: What employers want, essential skills, education factors in employment, skill-wage comparisons, fastest growing jobs and helpful career guides.

Marketing Yourself: Identifying the product, product development plan, evaluating strengths and skills, job applications, resumes, cover letters, researching companies, networking, and presenting the product.

Stress Management: Positive and negative stressors, physical and emotional impacts of stress, various processes and techniques for managing stress and creating peace.

Microsoft Word: Creating and editing documents, formatting text and paragraphs, and formatting documents.

Microsoft Excel: Building and editing worksheets, formatting worksheets and working with charts

Community Survival Workshops: Community Survival Workshops are offered six times a year on a variety of topics.  Workshop topics include:” Disaster Preparedness”, “Stretching Your Dollar”, and guest speakers from Legal Aid, Fair Housing Council of Oregon, and local law enforcement.

Please see our calendar for upcoming dates and times.

Services Tailored to Meet Individual Needs*

1. Assignment to one of CAPECO’s Workforce Development Specialists
   
2. Career Planning and Counseling
3. GED Preparation
4. On-the Job Training Opportunities
5. Educational Assistance
6. Job Seeking and Holding Skills

*Enrollment in intensive services requires eligibility determination. For more information please attend one of our regularly scheduled WIA Orientation sessions.