Dick Gaither, the "Wizard of Work," came to town! (Below is a past flyer about this inspiring conference)...

Dick Gaither's Mistake Free Job Finding: The Key To Quicker Employment

Where: Renton Technical College Main http://www.rtc.edu/ContactUs/Map/

When: May 21, 22, 23, 2007

Time: 8:30 am to 4:30 pm each day

Pre-register Now! Onsite registration will be offered only if space is available.

The Puget Sound Career Development Association and WorkSource Seattle-King County are pleased to bring Dick Gaither, one of America's most unique job search experts, to Renton for three days of talks. Dick trains career and job professionals to work more effectively with their clients, and job seekers to conduct more effective job searches. Among Dick's many admirers is Richard Bolles, author of What Color Is Your Parachute, who said, "Dick Gaither is the most riveting trainer I've ever met!"

Career professionals know how good Dick is. At the International Career Development Conference, with a typical attendance of one thousand, he always fills the largest breakout room to standing-room-only. More than two million of Dick's books are in print and he has spoken to over 80,000 job seekers and career professionals. His training concepts and materials are in use in 1,500 educational and employment organizations.

Dick works with high schools and colleges, welfare to work populations, drug and alcohol dependent clients, at risk youth, ex-offenders, veterans, Native Americans, and rehabilitation clients (physical and ental). He is often invited by companies to speak to employees about to be laid off.

Day One — FREE! (There is no registration for Day One only...just come!)

Day Two or Day Three Only
— $100 PSCDA member, $130 non-member, $110 group rate (four or more)

Days Two and Three Combo
— $179 PSCDA member, $199 non-member, $239 group rate (four or more)

Extra Bonus: Sign up for both Day Two and Day Three and receive a FREE Oct. 2007-Jun. 2008 PSCDA membership worth $55.00

Please note: to qualify for a member discount, you must belong to PSCDA for the Oct. 2006 to Jun. 2007 program year.

Three Days, Two Days, Or One Day With Dick Gaither!

On May 21, Dick will present two job finding sessions. This is our opportunity as professionals to see how Dick works with a group, answers questions, and uses his unique PowerPoint program, Looking For Work In America. Both sessions are free to counselors and the public. Invite your clients.

On May 22, Dick will speak only to career professionals and will target the core knowledge needed by job search instructors.

On May 23, Dick will cover the methods and techniques for becoming a more skilled and persuasive instructor. Dick is truly a master trainer, so you're guaranteed to come away with many new and useful strategies.

Click Here to Register Now or go to:

https://www.eventville.com/Catalog/EventRegistration1.asp?Eventid=1002504

The Program In Detail...

Day One - May 21

Watch a Pro Motivate and Educate an Audience - Day One will be devoted to Dick working with job seekers. He will lay out an effective plan for job hunting, expose job hunting myths, and answer questions. At the end of both sessions he will spend 30 minutes with job professionals to answer their questions. Come for the full day or either of the three-hour sessions.

Day Two - May 22

Mistake-Free Job Finding - On day two Dick will target universal job finding issues and the core knowledge needed by any job search instructor, including how to effectively present to groups. You will receive dozens of handouts and can ask questions throughout Dick's presentation. Topics he will address include:

• Why people remain unemployed
  
• Avoiding 27 common job search mistakes
  
• The best/worst job search methods
  
• Factors that affect the hiring process
  
• Job hiring advice from 4,000 hiring managers
  
• Barrier identification and removal
  
• Self-assessment and skills analysis
  
• Reference checking realities
  
• Researching skills
  
• Networking
  
• Job lead development
  
• Interviewing and salary negotiating
  
• Managing the job search
  
• Research about employer hiring practices
  
• Special populations (dislocated workers, older workers, ex-offenders, etc.)
  

Day Three – May 23

Becoming a More Effective and Motivational Trainer - Dick will target the content, methods, and techniques needed to become a more skilled, dynamic, and persuasive instructor. He'll also show attendees how to design a more effective self-directed job search training model and will respond to questions about delivering job search instruction. Topics Dick will address include:

Delivery System Design Topics

• Designing a near perfect job search training system
  
• Understanding the difference in models: Job Clubs, Self-directed Job Search, Behavioral models, Social models
  
• Staffing and responsibilities within a job search program
  
• Training topics that should be included in a job search training program
  
• Delivery methodologies…How to get the information across, and have some fun too
  

Training & Development Topics:

• Becoming a great job search trainer
  
• Building self-esteem in a job seeker
  
• Core learning principles and training techniques
  
• Learner-centered vs staff-centered instruction
  
• How people learn in a job search training environment
  
• Thirty leadership principles for job search instructors
  
• Four keys to effective job search training
  
• Creative training techniques for improved motivation and performance

"I've been using Dick Gaither's Looking For Work In America PowerPoint program as the focus of my presentation on helping mature workers find jobs. For the last five years customers have given the workshop rave reviews and much of that is due to the slides with their outstanding graphics and job-related statistics. You can easily insert your own stories and examples and create a program with a personal touch." --Craig Riggs, Senior Social Worker, WorkSource Seattle-King County

Raves From Past Attendees...

"Your workshop was rated a perfect 4.0. It should be required of anyone who helps people find employment." -- Training Coordinator, Michigan Works

"The placement team has made tremendous progress since your visit. It's amazing what a little listening will do to the morale for both staff and students. The great news is that we have a 90% overall placement rate for the year. To put that into perspective, we were at 63% overall when you visited in September. So, thank you, thank you, and thank you!"
-- Cathi Kinningsworth Bost,York Technical Institute

"WOW what an awesome presentation at our WIA conference in Yankton South Dakota!"
-- Jerid A. Maskovich, South Dakota Department of Labor

"In 40 years of attending training seminars, yours was without a doubt, the best I have ever attended." -- Phil Williams, Career Central

"I feel your methods and materials are the best in the business. Maintaining a sense of humor always makes any challenge easier and learning from you was a pure delight."
-- Employment Development Services, Nashaua, NH

"The man and the program were dynamite; maybe the best program I have seen in 20 years of attending placement conferences." -- Frank McCourt, Alpena Community College

"You've fundamentally changed the way I'm going to prepare people to look for work!"
-- California Career Conference

About Dick Gaither...

Dick is a fascinating guy, in part perhaps because of his many jobs, including Harley Davidson builder, elementary school teacher, life-skills trainer for the multiply handicapped, Vietnam veteran (he spent four years there), undersea cable installer, electronics technician, bar owner, arcade developer, housing subcontractor, and director of training.

Dick devotes a lot of his energy to disadvantaged youth because of his own difficult teen years. He and his wife have worked in youth group homes, and in the late 90's he designed and operated a successful summer youth employment program. Over a six-year period more than 350 disadvantaged youth went through his program for computer training, career development, and work experience.

Dick has extensive experience working with a wide range of mental health and physically disabled clientele. For three years he operated job clubs and delivered career development instruction to patients and clients at the Midtown Mental Health Center in Indianapolis.

A Few Career Highlights:

• Indianapolis Network Employment and Training: Employment Professional Of The Year
  
• Award Winner: National Vote of School Directors (NATTS)
  
• Veterans' Service Award Winner (Ohio Department of Labor)
  
• Former Board Member, NationalAssociation Of Job Search Trainers
  
• National Association Of Job Search Trainers Award For Outstanding Service
  
• AJST Wegman Award For Contributions To The Field
  
• Workforce Investment Board Member
  
• President's Award Nominee For Innovative Program Design
  

Additional Key Information

Lunch – Each day attendees will have 75 min. for lunch. Renton Technical College has a culinary program and offers excellent food at its nearby cafeteria and restaurant at very reasonable prices. For prices and menus: http://www.rtc.edu/CommunityResources/FoodServices/ There are numerous restaurants nearby. We'll provide names and addresses of nice eateries.

Register Soon – Last year the conference filled up quickly and not everyone who wanted to, was able to attend. We do have more space available than last year. Our facility is a state of the art auditorium.

Click Here to Register Now or go to:

https://www.eventville.com/Catalog/EventRegistration1.asp?Eventid=1002504

Who endorses Dick Gaither?

• Dick Gaither gets strong endorsements from just about everyone who hears him. Dick Bolles calls him “the most riveting trainer I’ve ever met!”
  
• "Dick delivers the essential job search messages in an entertaining way and makes points that every job-seeker needs to hear, regardless of job history or socio-economic level." —Howard Figler, keynoter and author of The Complete Job Search Handbook

• Dick Gaither's workshops are worthwhile on two levels - tons of good information and the experience of watching a master at work. He's a really smart guy who tells great stories about real people with real problems and how they got good jobs. —Kate Duttro, Former PSCDA president and portfolio poobah
  
• “Dick Gaither is the most intriguing speaker I’ve ever observed. I watched him take three hundred career development professionals and in two hours turned them into true believers. He provides tools and techniques that can be put into practice immediately.” —Tom Washington, former PSCDA president and author of Interview Power

PSCDA thanks Tom Washington, Susan Lauzac, Terry Pile, and all PSCDA members involved in planning this special Conference.

Questions?

Call Jill Kobayashi at 206-860-5906, OR send an email to: dickgaitherconference@gmail.com

PLEASE NOTE!
Last Year's PSCDA's Annual Workshop - The Baby Boomer Conference
(Baby Boomers at the Crossroads - Career issues facing older workers) held on June 2, 2006 in Seattle, was sold out and a huge success!

Details about this past special workshop are below for your reference...

PSCDA Baby Boomer Conference
Baby Boomers at the Crossroads - Career issues facing older workers

PSCDA presented 5 great speakers for an all day workshop on career counseling and coaching mature workers and new retirees

When: June 2, 2006, 8:45AM to 4:15PM

Where: University Inn, 4140 Roosevelt Way, Seattle, WA

Our Speakers:

Sally Hass heads the retirement program at Weyerhaeuser and speaks to employees all over the country. Her favorite topic concerns what employers need to do to retain boomers.

Doug Shadel is the regional director of AARP who develops programs that will help those beginning to retire to conseider their options, including PT employment and consulting.

Andy Landis is Weyerhaeuser’s Life and Retirement Planning Manager. He leads seminars throughout North America to help employees and their families navigate through retirement and is the author of the book: Social Security, The Inside Story.

Craig Riggs showed how Dick Gaither's presentation slide system can overcome the blocks those over 50 often have to explain why they won't be able to find a job.

Roger Howson demonstrated how the Hudson Institute’s Cycle of Renewal concept can help our boomer clients.

Click here to view and download an excellent list of the"2006 Baby Boomer Conference Resources."