Senior Adult Program

The Robert Sosnick Family Life Center
el) in conjunction with The Caring Community present
the music of:

Myth: If you ask everyone you know to help you find a job, someone will
find one for you.
Truth: If you ask everyone you know to help you find a job, you'll lose a lot of

friends.

a Myth: It's not what you know, it's who you know.

V Truth: It's not who you know, but who knows and appreciates YOU

iv Myth: If you follow up with an employer more than three times, you are
■ being a pest. And pests don't get jobs.
Truth: Following up the right way is persistence. Following up the wrong way
is pestering. And most leads become interviews after a minimum of 7-10 fol-
low-ups.

0 Myth: If someone says "No" to you about a job, they mean "No."

Truth: If someone says "No," they very likely mean "Not now."

Myth: To win the interview, you have to sell yourself by telling them how
Q1 wonderful you are.
Truth: To win the interview, you have to ask questions, listen to the answers
and tell them what they want to hear Most people can't sell. They talk too
much about themselves and don't listen CO their customers.

Myth: I can't find a job because~of the economy. It stinks and the best jobs
are going 0 overseas.
Truth: There are always jobs for people who develop the right contacts, get involved
in the business and show employers how they can improve the bottom line. El

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Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005 • 1:30 IN*

Open to the public
Free of charge
Bring your friends for all the fun!

Partially funded by the David Arthur Stulberg Memorial Fund &
the Harry & Phyllis Keliman Memorial Fund.
Co-sponsored by The Temple Israel Treasures.

For additional information, please contact Kari K. Provizer, ACSW,
in the Robert Sosnick Family Life Center at Temple Israel at 248-661-576.

Temple Israel

5725 Walnut Lake Road • West Bloomfield, MI 48323

1007690

Walt Tarrow heads JVS' Corporate Opportunities Program.

with 40,000 job leads, is the single
greatest resource for job seekers in
Michigan.
"However, when people use that
Web site, they get the sense that they
post their resume and wait for the
leads to start coming in," Tarrow said.
"That's not true. You need to take an
active, involved role in the process.
You can't expect for any employer to
come looking for you. It's your
responsibility to maintain contact with
a possible employer."

Necessary Support

His first two stints of unemployment
were fairly short ones and happened
long before resumes were posted on
the Web, Schwartz said. To save the
extra cents it costs to have the printer
do the collating, his two kids, who are
now grown, offered to help put the
resume papers together and stuff the
envelopes.
"They understood what was going
on," he said. "Some people, their fam-
ilies are more understanding than oth-
ers."
Cohen lives alone. Her adult son
lives in Chicago, so her immediate
support system comes from a lot of
friends.
Herschelman gets support from
Mary, his wife of 10 years, and their

five grown children.
"Everyone has bad days,"
Herschelman said. "When I had my
first two-hour, one-on-one session
with Walt, I typed up some notes and
put them on the refrigerator,"
Herschelman said. "When I get a bit
down, I look at his words of wisdom,
and they perk me up a little. You have
to keep plugging away, you have to
have the discipline, and you have to
keep going for it."
Tarrow said family support is com-
mon, but there's a lot of divorce
among the unemployed, too. "It was
simply the catalyst that brought about
the event," he said.
A lot of pressure can come from the
family, especially to take a job, any
job, he said. But that comes with some
risk.
"One epidemic that very much
exists in the Jewish community is
underemployment," he said. "It's not
identified or tracked, and it goes
incredibly unnoticed. In many occa-
sions, it's an individual who has lost
employment after a significant amount
of time. Once they get that urgency
and desperation, very often they will
take what they can get. Once they
take that position, they often get
stuck."
Herschelman made a base salary of
$55,000 in his last job, and that is the

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