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Job Finding Club helps people prepare for a job and then keep it The last few weeks have been the best weeks Dennis Guillemette has had in two years. In v1 fae a EY GF: Guillemette, a Penetanguishene re- sident, became a member of "The Job Finding Club." a sup- port program designed to help people prepare for a job and find it. It is sponsored by _ the provincially funded Technical Upgrading Program administered by Georgian College in the Midland area. Guillemette has only worked 11 weeks out of the last 24 months. He has a college education but just hasn't had any luck finding work. Welfare has been his main source of income recently, but with a wife, three children and anotheron the way to support, the 29-year-old has found it impossible to make ends meet with government benefits. He wants to work. Since Guillemette became unemployed, he found job opportunities to be few and far bet- ween. But all that has changed since he joined the Job Finding Club. Within the first two weeks of signing up he came across 26 job opportunities, had five interviews and was waiting to hear from another 10 companies which had his resume. "T feel confident I'm going to find a job very shortly," he said. Four of the 12 people who signed up for the program at the same time as Guillemette had jobs within the first two weeks. While the club can't guarantee em- ployment, it does boast an 80 percent success rate in Barrie and Orillia where it has been operating since last summer. JOB READY The Job Finding Club involves a_ three-week program in_ which members attend a seminar in the mornings and do active job search in the afternoons. The program is open to anyone who is_ job ready, actively seeking employment and is able to look for a job full- time. Unemployment Insurance and Worker's Compensation __ recipi- ents can join, but they must contact their Canada Employment Centre counsellor first. If a member doesn't get a job within the first three weeks, he can sign up for the next program. Bob Davy is the club's instructor in Midland. Last year. he was unemployed himself for a few months, so he knows what job search is all about. Often, it's a difficult task. "Tt's easy when you are unemployed to become depressed and not go out to do job search," Davy said. One of the first exercises he does with club participants is try to improve their outlook by showing them that all the experience they have is valuable. Even women who have been housewives most of their lives have many positive attributes to offer the working world. "T've always thought that your work history is it, but 1 never thought that what you took in high school would make difference," Guille- mette said. Another exercise the club does at the beginning of each three- week session is to write a proper resume. This proved particularly helpful to Guillemette. "The resume I had originally was a piece of garbage compared to what I have now," he said. SCAN NEWSPAPERS The Job Finding Club has three resumes typed and photocopied for members at no charge. Paper and envelopes are also provided as is a telephone in the club's seminar room. Each day, newspapers from Toronto, Midland, Orillia and Barrie are brcught in so par- ticipants can scan the "help wanted" pages. Other job sources, such as employer lists from the Chamber of Com- merce, are also available. What this means for the members, Davy explained, is that the cost of looking for a job is cut down, Support and_ en- couragement is provided by Davy, but most comes from the members themselves. "When one gets a job, it motivates the others," Davy said. The par- ticipants offer each other suggestions as to how they might get an interview or how they might improve them- selves for the next one. They remind each other that the worse thing a prospective employer can do is say "no." "You learn from a 'no' that there is something you have to do to get a 'yes' for the next time," Guillemette said. For more information about the Job Finding Club in Midland, call 526-9914 or visit the club's centre at 303 Friday, 9 a.m. to noon Midland Ave., Suite 204. and 1 to 3 p.m. It is open Monday to Aiming for 100 per cent "One hundred per- cent," may well become the 1986 theme for the activities of Midland's Chamber of Commerce. Membership Chair- man Brian Downer has set a personal goal of 100 percent membership for the Chamber, and has already signed on 15 businesses since Feb. 3. Members' new window stickers, currently being distributed in the mail, display the words "100 percent - Chamber of Midland Com- merce," on a new black and white rectangular format, that replaces the traditional coloured maple leaf symbol. ewent <0. See: ta sticker in every win- dow," pledges Downer. "Tt shows a com- mittment to the town."' 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