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These articles are written to offer additional insights into the world of marketing and generating employment outcomes. They express practical ideas or opinions on various topics while offering, useful tips and strategies to enhance the employment outcomes task.

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Job Development During a Recession (Part 1 of 3)
Allen Anderson

This article focuses on understanding the changes brought by a recession and their effects on job development activities.

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Job Development - Preparing Your Employer Relationships in a Recession ( Part 2 of 3)
Allen Anderson

This article outlines the value of the employer relationship and its significance during recessionary times.

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Job Development Techniques in a Recession (Part 3 of 3)
Allen Anderson

This article focuses on some of the techniques that have proven more effective in recessionary times and how they can be used.

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Embracing the "C" Word
Teresa Mizgala

Teresa is a rural job developer in Michigan. This article outlines her experiences as she has acheived remarkable employment outcomes in high unemployment very rural Michigan.

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Getting Rid of Assumptions
Allen Anderson

Article on how our own assumptions interfer with and hinder job development efforts and success.

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The Stages of Selling
Allen Anderson

Job development selling can be divided into 4 key stages. Knowing the stages and their interrelationship significantly helps produce employment outcomes.

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Understanding Placement Ratios
Allen Anderson

Job development managers need a technique where by to measure and predict job placement activities and their impact on success, placement ratios offers this.

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Change Your Perspective
Allen Anderson

How we frame the task of job development, how we form our perspective of the task to be done, will significantly influence our perception of potential success and our willingness to undertake the task. We need the right perspective.

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Is There a Job for Me?
Allen Anderson

People with skills limitations often are left out of job placement success. How to get people who have more limitations into the labour market is addressed.

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Working Against Ourselves
Allen Anderson

The fundamental flaw in job development of overselling oursleves and employers and it consequences are examined.

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Semantics - Worthwhile or Not?
Allen Anderson

The vocational rehabilitation industry often spends a lot of time in getting the language of discourse correct. I beleive this discussion only helps us, but may not be enough to get jobs.

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The Need for Needs
Allen Anderson

Needs or problems to be solved are central to job development. How do we best use this to our advantage?

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The Problem and The Solution
Allen Anderson

Understanding the difference between the problem and the solution is central to effective and innovative job dvelopment. This concept should be instrumental in all job developers thinking.

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Marketing and Managing Job Placement
Allen Anderson

Managing job placement means understanding marketing and selling activities and skills. This article explores the management of job development from the sales perspecitve.

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Prospecting as a Needed Tool
Allen Anderson

Prospecting success is the only way into the labour market. Making it work for job development is job one. This article helps with understanding the importance and skills of prospecting in job development.

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URL EOPII Toronto Presentation Documents
Allen

This article contains the URL for Toronto EOPII participants for Nov 2, 3, 4, 2011 for the promised documents on presentations and role plays. This article will come down Nov 12, 2011. The pass word for the files was given in the class. URL is http://dtg-emp.com/hidden_files/show/750b759fb0d8d9bd609a383d3fad68b87fcda2f7

Appearance and Job Development Confidence
By Allen Anderson

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Job Placement in Rural Communities
By Allen Anderson

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We Generate Employer Resistance Not the Employer
By Allen Anderson

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Marketing Tips for Job Developers or Anyone Else Having to Do that Job Because the Job Developer is Away Sick
By Allen Anderson

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