Beyond Craigslist: Getting Employed in Nashville

Jobs4TN

• government and private postings

Idealist or Center for Nonprofit Managment

• nonprofits

Employment Agencies:

Nashville Career Advancement Center

• located in Metro Center
• focus on getting people off unemployment and back to work
• must have TN ID

National Council on Aging

• for people 55+

Operation Stand Down

• for Veterans

Project Return

• for exoffenders (must be released within last two years with a felony or serious misdemeanor)

Job Training:

Goodwill Career Solutions

• free, low cost or paid trainings
• everything from computer programming and forklift certification to hospitality and construction
• weekly job fairs

ACTION VERB LIST

Action Verbs and Levels of Proficiency

common resume techniques for articulating an individual’s work history and proficiency with a discipline action verbs coupled with specificity allows employers to envision the applicant and grabs his/her attention.

exp: “presided”

Related Experience:

Holiday Inn Nashville, TN April 2010-Present

Shift Supervisor

presided over 4 employees in a project to develop creative new ways of ensuring positive experiences for guests

Management &Leadership

• achieved
• administered
• allocated
• analyzed
• appointed
• approved
• arranged
• assembled
• assigned
• attained
• authorized
• awarded
• chaired
• completed
• conceived
• conducted
• considered
• consolidated
• contracted
• controlled
• converted
• coordinated
• correlated
• decided
• delegated
• designated
• determined
• developed
• directed
• disapproved
• discharged
• eliminated
• emphasized
• encouraged
• enforced
• engineered
• enhanced
• established
• evaluated
• executed
• expanded
• generated
• governed
• handled
• headed
• hired
• hosted
• implemented
• improved
• incorporated
• increased
• initiated
• inspected
• inspired
• instituted
• launched
• led
• maintained
• managed
• merged
• motivated
• navigated
• organized
• outlined
• overhauled
• oversaw
• planned
• prepared
• presided
• prioritized
• procured
• produced
• provided
• recommended
• reevaluated
• regulated
• rejected
• reorganized
• replaced
• reported
• required
• restored
• reviewed
• scheduled
• secured
• selected
• settled
• signed
• solved
• specified
• sponsored
• stipulated
• streamlined
• strengthened
• supervised
• terminated

Communication

• addressed
• advertised
• arbitrated
• arranged
• articulated
• authored
• called
• circulated
• clarified
• coached
• collaborated
• communicated
• composed
• condensed
• conferred
• consulted
• contacted
• conveyed
• convinced
• corresponded
• counseled
• debated
• defined
• demonstrated 
• described
• developed
• directed
• discussed
• drafted
• edited
• elicited
• emphasized
• enlisted
• explained
• expressed
• facilitated
• formulated
• furnished
• incorporated
• influenced
• informed
• interacted
• interpreted
• interviewed
• involved
• joined
• judged
• lectured
• listened
• marketed
• mediated
• moderated
• motivated
• negotiated
• notified
• observed
• oriented
• outlined
• participated
• persuaded
• presented
• promoted
• proofread
• proposed
• publicized
• published
• purposed
• recommended
• reconciled
• recruited
• redirected
• referred
• reinforced
• related
• renegotiated
• reported
• represented
• researched
• resolved
• responded
• reunited 
• showed
• solicited
• specified
• spoke
• suggested
• summarized
• synthesized
• translated
•  transmitted
• tutored
• wrote

Research

• analyzed
• clarified
• coded
• collected
• compared
• conceived
• conducted
• contrasted
• critiqued
• detected
• determined
• diagnosed
• disproved
• evaluated
• examined
• experimented
• explored
• extracted
• formulated
• gathered
• identified
• inquired
• inspected
• interpreted
• interviewed
• invented
• investigated
• located
• measured
• organized
• remodeled
• repaired
• reported
• researched
• reviewed
• searched
• solved
• studied
• summarized
• surveyed
• systematized
• tested
• wrote
• Technical
• adapted
• analyzed
• applied
• assembled
• budgeted
• built
• calculated
• computed
• conserved
• constructed
• converted
• correlated
• debugged
• designed
• determined
• developed
• devised
• engineered
• fabricated
• financed
• fortified
• handled
• inspected
• installed
• maintained
• manipulated
• operated
• overhauled
• printed
• programmed
• rectified
• regulated
• remodeled
• repaired
• replaced
• resolved
• restored
• solved
• specialized
• standardized
• studied
• trained
• upgraded
• utilized

Teaching

• adapted
• advised
• assessed
• clarified
• coached
• communicated
• conducted
• coordinated
• critiqued
• defined
• demonstrated
• developed
• educated
• enabled
• encouraged
• evaluated
• explained
• facilitated
• focused
• guided
• illustrated
• individualized
• informed
• initiated
• instilled
• instructed
• lectured
• mentored
• motivated
• persuaded
• planned
• presented
• set
• goals
• simulated
• stimulated
• taught
• tested
• trade
• transmitted
• tutored
• updated

Financial

• adjusted
• administered
• allocated
• analyzed
• appraised
• assessed
• audited
• balanced
• budgeted
• calculated
• compared
• computed
• conserved
• corrected
• determined
• developed
• estimated
• forecasted
• managed
• marketed
• measured
• netted
• planned
• prepared
• programmed
• projected
• qualified
• reconciled
• reduced
• reevaluated
• researched
• retrieved
• sold

Creative

• acted
• adapted
• applied
• authored
• began
• built
• combined
• composed
• conceived
• conceptualized
• condensed
• constructed
• created
• customized
• designed
• developed
• directed
• displayed
• drew
• entertained
• established
• estimated
• fashioned
• forecasted
• formed
• formulated
• founded
• generated
• illustrated
• initiated
• integrated
• introduced
• invented
• investigated
• launched
• loaded
• modeled
• modified
• molded
• originated
• perceived
• performed
• photographed
• piloted
• planned
• presented
• produced
• proposed
• refined
• researched
• revised
• revitalized
• rewrote
• set up
• shaped
• solved
• studied
• updated

Helping

• adapted
• advised
• advocated
• aided
• answered
• arranged
• assessed
• assisted

• brought
• cared for
• clarified
• coached
• collaborated
• coordinated
• contributed
• cooperated
• counseled
• dealt
• demonstrated
• diagnosed
• directed
• educated
• encouraged
• ensured
• expedited
• facilitated
• familiarized
• furthered
• guided
• helped
• influenced
• inspired
• insured
• intervened
• led
• maintained
• mentored
• modified
• motivated
• performed
• prevented
• provided
• referred
• rehabilitated
• represented
• resolved
• served
• simplified
• supplied
• supported
• upheld
• volunteered

Clerical or Detail

• activated
• altered
• assembled
• approved
• arranged
• catalogued
• classified
• collected
• compiled
• described
• dispatched
• edited
• estimated
• executed
• gathered
• generated
• implemented
• inspected
• listed
• maintained
• monitored
• observed
• operated
• organized
• overhauled
• prepared
• processed
• proofread
• published
• purchased
• recorded
• reduced
• retrieved
• screened
• specified
• streamlined
• systematized
• tabulated
• validated

Organizational

• approved
• arranged
• assembled
• catalogued
• categorized
• charted
• classified
• coded
• collected
• compiled
• completed
• conducted
• controlled
• corrected
• correlated
• corresponded
• determined
• dispatched
• distributed
• eliminated
• engineered
• executed
• expanded
• filed
• generated
• implemented
• incorporated
• inspected
• logged
• maintained
• monitored
• obtained
• operated
• ordered
• organized
• prepared
• processed
• procured
• provided
• purchased
• recorded
• registered
• reserved
• responded
• retrieved
• reviewed
• routed
• scheduled
• screened
• set up
• solved
• sorted
• standardized
• submitted
• supplied
• systematized
• tabulated
• updated
• validated
• verified

Resume Advice: Levels of Profeciency

Levels of Proficiency

• accurate (in)
• adept (in, at)
• advanced (knowledge of)
• alert (in)
• competent
• concise
• conversant (in)
• detailed (knowledge of)
• effective (in)
• empathy
• exceptional
• exemplary
• expert (in, at)
• extraordinary fluent (in)
• functions (well)
• gifted
• good (at)
• great
• high (degree of)
• intermediate (knowledge of)
• judicious
• keen (sense of,
• understanding of)
• knowledge (of)
• master (of)
• perception (of)
• perceptive
• practical (experience in)
• proficient (in)
• relentless (in pursuit of)
• rudimentary
• sensitive (to)
• skilled (at, in)
• sophisticated (understanding of)
• strong (sense of, background in) 
• successful (in, at)
• uncommon understanding (of)
• unusual

How to Create an Email Address

Email

Temporary: Mailinator

• No prerequisites
• No privacy
• No passwords 

Long Term: Gmail

• Yahoo is not recommended as it expires and has overly elaborate security protection
• many participants are unable to access their own email

Prerequisites: 

• A working phone (on them)
• another working email address (they can access)

Make sure they have their new email address and password written down

We are unable to store a participant’s passwords (privacy)

Identification Documents

Identification Documents: order to attain IDs and what each type of ID does

State ID or Driver’s License
State IDs enables individuals to be able to:

• sign up for TennCare
• sign up for SNAP-> *allows sign up for free mobile phone
• sign up for a birth certificate
• register to vote
• board a plane
• ability to purchase alcohol, guns, coup syrup and cigarettes
• opening a bank account
• get married
• adopt a pet
• rent a hotel room
• apply for a hunting or fishing license
• buy a contract cell phone
• pick up a prescription
• donate blood

Birth Certificate
State ID + a Birth Certificate enables individuals to:
sign up for job training

• sign up for treatment
• apply for a jo
• get a paycheck from an employer

Social Security Card (basically acts as a Birth Certificate)
recommendation: Social Security Office in Metro Center

• coupled with a state ID a SS card enables all of above benefits

Passport
recommendation: Post Office
allows an individual to do all the above AND

• entry and exit out of the United States

Good Reasons for Leaving Your Job

Good Reasons for Leaving Your Job

These reasons all work well because they are all legitimate reasons an employee can decide to move on to a new position.

• Career change
• Career growth
• Change in career path
• Company cut backs
• Company downsized
• Company went out of business
• Family circumstances
• Family reasons
• Flexible schedule
• Getting married
• Hours reduced
• Job was outsourced
• Good career opportunity
• Good reputation and opportunity at the new company
• Laid off
• Landed a higher paying job
• Limited growth at company
• Long commute
• Looking for a new challenge
• Needed a full-time position
• New challenge
• Not compatible with company goals
• Not enough hours
• Not enough work or challenge
• Offered a permanent position
• Personal reasons
• Position eliminated
• Position ended
• Relocating
• Reorganization or merger
• Retiring
• Seasonal position
• Seeking a challenge
• Seeking more responsibility
• Staying home to raise a family
• Summer job
• Temporary job
• Travel
• Went back to school

English as a Second Language Resources in Nashville 2014

English as Second Language Resources 2014

Adult English Classes (free)	Location	Time of Day	Phone Number (615)	Website
Antioch Church of Christ	Haywood Ln./ Antioch Pk.	nights	834.3063
Belmont United Methodist Church	Vanderbilt/ Hillsboro Village	days	383.0832
Brooke Hollow Baptist Church	Belle Meade	Sunday morning	352.1295/ 673.1851
Catholic Charities *refugees only*	Various	-	259.3567	cctenn.org
Center for Refugees and Immigrants	Murfreesboro Road	mornings	366.6868	centerforrefugees.org
Conexion Americas	Nolensville Road	mornings/ evenings	320.5152	conexionamericas.org
First Church of the Nazarene	East Nashville	Monday nights	333.7708
First United Pentecostal Church	West Nashville	nights	681.2939
Glenwood Baptist Church	Thompson Lane	Monday nights	498.0551
Hillcrest UMC	Nolensville Pike/ Tusculum	Wednesday nights	832.0157	ask for Keri Cress
Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church	Nolensville Pike	mornings/ evenings	445.8310 ext. 221
Nashville Adult Literacy Council	Various	days/ nights	298.8060	M nashvilleliteracy.org
NICE	Nolensville Road	days/ nights	315.9681	empowernashville.org
Park Avenue Baptist Church	West Nashville	Thursday nights	297.5336
Thrift Smart	Nolensville Road	nights	833.8200

English as Second Language Resources 2014 (continued)

Adult English Classes (with cost)	Location	Time of Day	Phone Number	Website
Antioch English Classes	Antioch	days	719.9181	leanenglishnashville.com
Casa de la Cultura Latino Americana	Antioch	nights	731.1095	-
International English Institute	Murfreesboro Road	days/ nights	327.1715	Iei.edu
Nashville State Community College	West Nashville/ Antioch	days/ nights	353.3380	nscc.edu
Our Lady of Guadalupe Church	Nolensville Road	days/ nights	445.8310 ext. 223	-
Progreso	Haywood Lane/ Nolensville	days/ nights	365.9002	progresocommunitycenter.org
Tennessee Foreign Language Institute	Metro Center/ South Nashville	days/ nights	741.7579	tfli.org

Adult English Classes (for college students/ personnel)	Location	Time of Day	Phone Number	Website
Nashville State Community College	West Nashville/ Antioch	days/ nights	353.3551 (W. Nashville) 916-5851 (Antioch)	nscc.edu
Vanderbilt English Language Center	Vanderbilt	days/ nights	322.2277	vanderbilt.edu/elc/
Adult English Conversation Groups	Location	Time of Day	Phone Number	Website
American Conversation Partners	Music Square	days	654.9767	-
Vanderbilt English Language Center	Music Square	Friday afternoons	-	robvaugh1@gmail.com