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• Provide job search strategies for a diverse caseload of approximately 60 clients per month.
• Develop relationships with employers throughout the Columbus area on a continuous basis to assist clients with networking and job matching.
• Conduct workshops on résumé preparation, interviewing skills and applications.
• Prepare résumés for clients; entry level, middle management and executives.
• Motivate clients during the job search process and while on the job to ensure continued employment.
• Make recommendations for assessments or community resources.

• Assisted homeless clients obtain employment while living in a shelter apartment with their family.
• Contacted potential employers to develop employment opportunities.
• Created weekly flyer of job openings and distributed it to the shelter families.
• Coordinated “Twelve Steps to Employment” pilot program which included soft skills training, motivational speakers and job matching evaluations.
• Provided intake and assessment of psychological, emotional and physical needs of homeless families.
• Assisted families with their search for permanent housing and completed paperwork for first month’s rent and deposit.

• Supported families from program approval and throughout construction until house dedication ceremonies.
• Compiled family “sweat equity” data for each family during the construction of their house.
• Represented Habitat for Humanity at neighborhood meetings.
• Planned ground breaking and house dedications.

• Managed the operation of the Family Center where homeless families spent each day.
• Assigned each family to the Interfaith Hospitality Network for night time shelter.
• Hired, trained and supervised a staff of 5-7 ensuring coverage of the Family Center seven days a week.
• Developed and maintained case files and statistics on all families served.
• Resolved all problems between families, children, churches and staff.

Bachelor Of Arts, Sociology

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