Employer
to applicant: "In this job we need someone who is responsible."
Applicant: "I'm the one you want. On my last job, every time anything
went wrong, they said I was responsible."
Looking for
a job is a job. And Like any job having the right tools makes the job
easier and the outcome better. To help your looking, getting and doing
a better job, gotfiredgethired.com has put together links to
interactive learning websites, links to tools to help you get the job,
and great resources that you can refer to again and again.
Education and Experience are the keys for success.
Information on the level of education and training needed for specific
occupations, can be found with the
Occupational Outlook Handbook
Studying
English helps us develop our reading, writing, speaking, and listening
skills, all of which play a part in
our everyday lives. Improving your English skills improves your understanding
and the communication of ideas which are essential to every job.Thanks
to the internet, improving your English skills is fun, interactive and
self paced. The links below are for all levels and will improve your communication
skills quickly.
Fact:
• More than 20% of adults read and write at or below a fifth grade
level- far below the level needed to earn a living wage.
The National Adult Literacy Survey found that over 40 million Americans
age 16 and older have significant literacy deficiencies.
• 43% of people with the lowest literacy skills live in poverty.
• 17% of people with the lowest literacy skills receive food stamps
• 70% of people with the lowest literacy skills have no full or
part time job.
• Workers who lack a high school diploma earn a average monthly
income of $452 compared to $1,829 for those with a college degree. SOURCE: Grass Roots
Literacy Coalition
Improve your Communication
Grade School Level Starfall-Learn very Basic Reading
and Writing Skills Writing
Guide Very Basic Alphabet practice. Beacon Learning
Center- Interactive Web Lessons in English and Math Marshall
Adult Education-Improve Basic Reading Skills (Geared Toward Beginning
Adult Readers) A4ESL-Excellant website filled with Quizzes,
tests, exercises and puzzles to help you learn English
Middel
School Levels The Reading Matrix-Database
of interactive online reading activities from around the web. Marshall
Adult Education-Improve intermediate reading skills (Lessons geared
toward intermediate adult readers) A4ESL-Excellant website filled with quizzes,
tests, exercises and puzzles to help you learn English British
Council for Learning-Great Website filled with a lot of interactive
tools (Link to grammar games) TV411-Improve Reading,
Writing, Vocabualary and Math, (Lessons geared toward intermediate adult
readers)
Math
Skills -Studies show that if you believe that you are good in math, you
will be good at math. Math is easy when you know the rules and practice
them a little.Below are resources and links for solving, learning, and
amazing people with math.
Grade School Math JCS-Add,
Subtract, Divide, Telling Time, Money AAA Math-Study Basic Math Skills
Unlimited Interactive Practice Explanations and Examples Hundreds of Pages
Middel School Math AAA Math-Study Basic Math Skills
Unlimited Interactive Practice Explanations and Examples Hundreds of Pages Cut the Knot-Interactive
Math Site for All levels
High School Math Jefferson
County Schools Math-Many guides and the best interactive resources
(Thank You JCS)
Improve
your MS Office Skills The most popular office programs are the "Microsoft Office Suite" and "Adobe
Systems "Acrobat". Basic qualifications for 70% of all
jobs in the US require familarity with the MS Suite or similar programs.
Below are links to free tutorials that will
teach you how to use the applications. Be confindent and try to learn
a little bit of all of the applications. Typing
Tutor |MS Word | MS Excel | MS Powerpoint | MS Outlook | MS Access | Adobe Acrobat| Other Office Programs
Typing
Tutorials Free
Typing Tutor Downloads-Download typing programs that can teach or
improve your typing skills.
MS Word Provides
powerful tools for creating and sharing professional word processing documents. Internet4classroom/word Word Tutorial bcschools.net/word-Word
Tutorial baycongroup.com-Word
Tutorial Atto.buffalo.edu-These
are downloadable tutorials much more indepth and you can learn a lot.
MS Excel With
Microsoft Excel, you can create detailed spreadsheets. MIstupid-Good Video
Tutorials. teacherclick.com-Very
Very good Excel tutorials MRExcel.com-This is
the link to the articles section with excellant tips,tricks and tutorials Internet4classroom/excel-Excel
Tutorial bcschools.net/excel-Excel
Tutorial Usd.edu-Very good interactive
Tutorials Excel Help Page-
MS PowerpointMicrosoft
PowerPoin provides a complete set of tools for creating powerful presentations. Awesome
Powerpoint Tutorials-Literally Awesome Powerpoint Tutorials Internet4classrom/pp-Powerpoint
Tutorial Bcschools.net/pp-Powerpoint
Tutorial PPintheclassroom- Excellant independent
PP tutorial site.
MS Outlook MS
Outlook 2003- This is a downloadable word file, but very detailed,
calendar, receiving work emails at home good. Configuring
Your email-This is a link to the proverbial "How to" for
MS Outlook. Configuring your email accout. About.com/outlook-The
20 most popular outlook how to questions. PRB
Corp-Quick and Very Helpful Tips for MS Outlook
MS AccessMicrosoft Access gives you powerful
tools for managing your databases. teacherclick.com-Excellant
Access Tutorial bcschools.net/access-Access
Tutorial
Adobe Acrobat Acrobatusers.com-A
great free tutorial site. PDF
Research-Its Old
but a great start. Acrobat
6 Tutorial-Again a little old but its a another good start Acrobat
6 Download-A
PDF file tutorial for Acrobat 6 very user freindly. Read online or save
for later.
Other
Popular Office Tutorials MS
Publisher-Microsoft Publisher helps you easily create, customize,
and publish materials such as newsletters, brochures, flyers, catalogs,
and Web sites Quickbooks-Top
used, selling and rated accounting software. Lotus
Notes -Integrated desktop client
option for accessing business e-mail, calendars and applications AutoCAD- CAD
software application for 2D and 3D design and drafting Photoshop- is
a collection of graphic design, video editing, and web development applications Dreamweaver-Webdesign
software from Macromedia/Adobe Wordpress-
WordPress is a blog publishing system written in PHP and backed by a MySQL
database
