Sean Gilligan Email & Phone Number

• Manage a caseload of 65 – 75 families who are receiving public assistance through Minnesota’s Family Investment Program, nationally know as TANF, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
• Provide employment support/coaching services to improve job placement success, address barriers, and create greater client confidence when pursuing their career
• Coordinate/connect participants with critical resources to address housing, transportation, and childcare crises
• Carefully adhere to strict state and federal program guidelines/requirements ensuring compliance and exceptional outcome performance while maintaining a participant-focused approach
• Created and executed 2-part resume workshop to establish a solid job search foundation for all participants and address an important need per constructive/collaborative conversations with other counselors
• Practice compassion and understanding to support all participant ambitions and create effective, realistic change

• Serve participants in Re-entry, Workforce Innovations for Natives, and Minnesota Family Investment Programs while maintaining thorough knowledge of each program’s requirements for enrollment and data collection
• Carefully track all client interactions and outcomes to determine practice efficiency and make necessary changes
• Work one-on-one with every participant through the entire job search leading to quality, high-wage placements
• Maintain awareness of local markets and build organization partnerships to connect clients with opportunities that best match their goals, ambitions, and family needs
• Practice compassion and understanding to meet clients where they’re at and create effective, realistic change

• Provide a variety of employment support services including resume enhancement, cover letter training, and interview preparation
• Assess client need and connect them with appropriate job placement or education team-member
• Conduct regular phone and email outreach to improve client base and encourage the use of our services
• Track monthly contact numbers and clearly case note all client interactions

Chicago

• Fostered a safe, positive learning environment for a diverse range of underserved, at-risk peoples
• Taught an intensive 4-month, 18 hour-a-week course of 5 -25 adult immigrants and refugees
• Advocated, recruited, and developed curriculum for a new citizenship class to better serve client need
• Consistently posted above-average pre- to post-test gains using the BESTPlus testing program

• Created and executed lesson plans on poetic craft and tradition to engage students in their own writing practice
• Lead a 3-hour student-driven workshop discussion about their classmates’ poems once-a-week
• Provided stimulating feedback and critique on student’s creative work as well as on assigned essays

Sheboygan, Wisconsin Area

• Assisted Associate Professor with a 101 class aimed at improving the reading skills of incoming Freshman with below-average test scores
• Administered, graded, and reviewed daily vocabulary tests with a class of 20 – 30 students
• Made myself available for extra 1-on-1 tutoring opportunities as needed by struggling students

Masters Of Fine Arts, Creative Writing

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, English Language And Literature/Letters

Outstanding Student of Writing (2014)