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A Dublin company offers a program to help unemployed people increase your chances of getting your career back on track.
DUBLIN, Ohio—Increase your chances of getting your career back on track.
With an unemployment rate of more than 10 percent in the state of Ohio, people are looking for work wherever they can.
Some open classified ads or visit job-search Web sites such as http://www.monster.com or http://www.careerbuilder.com.
Others seek help from the professionals.
That’s where Sequent, a human-resource consulting firm out of Dublin, comes in.
For the last 14 years, it primarily has worked with local, mid-size companies, but when those companies began laying off employees in recent months, the firm began a new program to help people who have spent years in the same trade transition to a new career.
“So many people when they go through a career transition, particularly those people who have never been in a career transition, this is the worst time in decades, really don’t know what
they want to do,” said Tim Reed, vice president of employment services.
The program costs anywhere between $2,000 to $3,500 and involves much more than polishing your resume.
President Joe Cole said the firm first assesses your education, training and experience.
“Once we understand what your attributes are and what your strengths are, then we try to help you determine what kind of career track might be beneficial for you,” Cole said.
Cole said firm’s professionals then offer additional training on topics such as confidence and how to sell yourself to a potential employer.
“We can provide the kind of training that helps shore up those deficiencies and potentially make you more attractive to a potential employer,” Cole said.
And to find you a job, it offers a recruitment process.
To contact Sequent, call 614-436-5880 or visit http://www.sequent.biz/index.asp.
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Don’t pay for the services this agency provides for free.
Let’s be reasonable folks. This company is billing itself as a charity. It is a small business like many others. It takes resources and technology to do what they do as I have used similar firms before. Many times companies who are laying off will pay for outplacement services like these to help their displaced workers. If you want to be upset at someone, how about the state who keeps taxing our small to mid-sized businesses into bankruptcy!
Add to the fact, that this company is on the news, making it sound like they are doing a wonderful thing for society. Come on seriously?
You two took the words right out of my mouth. What a joke. Do they accept payments after the person finds a job????
In addition to my last comment, I just cannot belive this place wants to charge thousands of dollars to help unemployed people get a job. What is wrong with people anymore? No job equals no income, it dosent take a real smart person to realize this.
It’s a shame everyone wants to get in on taking advantage of the unemployed instead of helping. That is not an offer of support, an offer would be free. They could help the whole economy if they volunteered to help people find jobs.
If someone is unemployed, how are they going to afford to pay someone $3500 to have someone find them a job?
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