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Message: <br /><br /> If you are having trouble reading this email, you may view this article online at: http://www.jweekly.com/3427/full/3427/college-grad-seeking-job-jvs-slates-strategy-sessions/ <br /><br /> <b>College grad seeking job? JVS slates strategy sessions</b> <br /> Friday, June 14, 1996 | by <p>NATALIE WEINSTEIN </p> <br /><br /><p>When Rebecca Novick moved to San Francisco last fall, she had been out of college for three years but was just beginning to look for her first "real" job.<br /><br /> Since 1992, she had lived in London, Israel and her Michigan hometown. She had worked during that period but knew it was time to settle into a serious career.<br /><br /> The University of Michigan drama graduate finally signed up for job-hunting help with the S.F.-based Jewish Vocational Service in December. She learned to focus her search and write post-interview thank-you notes. By February, she was hired as a development coordinator for the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival.<br /><br /> JVS will offer the same job-hunting information Novick received, at a workshop for college graduates from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, June 25, and another from 5 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 28.<br /><br /> Each workshop costs $20 and will take place at JVS, 77 Geary St., S.F. The workshops are open to both Jews and non-Jews. Call (415) 391-3600 to pre-register.<br /><br /> Some figures bode well for job seekers. The national unemployment rate has been hovering below 6 percent for 21 months now, according to the U.S. Labor Department.<br /><br /> "But college career counseling resources are also dropping," said JVS employment counselor Becki Wolf, who will lead the workshops.<br /><br /> She continues to meet graduates from top-notch schools who have little or no practical experience in job-hunting.<br /><br /> The Bay Area attracts a disproportionate number of twentysomethings who decide to move here first and then start looking for work, Wolf said.<br /><br /> Novick was one of them.<br /><br /> At the University of Michigan's career counseling center, Novick said, the focus was primarily on finding work in large companies.<br /><br /> "There was no information or guidance on how to find a job in the arts or social service agencies. I think that's a real gap," she said.<br /><br /> The workshops will cover all the nuts and bolts of job searching. This includes:<br /><br /> *Setting goals. Studying up on specific careers.<br /><br /> *Searching beyond the newspaper's classified ads via networking, professional associations, personnel agencies and headhunters.<br /><br /> *Writing resumes, reference lists, cover letters and thank-you notes. Interviewing and handling rejection.<br /><br /> *Dealing with limited financial resources while the job hunt progresses. Considering temp work and freelance projects.<br /><br /> Wolf contended that Jewish college graduates are no different from their non-Jewish counterparts when it comes to job hunting. The only distinction, she said, may be that the Jewish community makes specific resources available to them.</p> <p> </p>

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