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Job Development Essentials: Partnering with Employers to Make the Right Match for DYCD Providers
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Workforce Professionals Training Institute
11 Park Place, Suite 701 New York, NY 10007Description
As a job developer, matching job seekers to the right opportunities is daunting enough, right?
Businesses are equally, if not more, overwhelmed by the task of recruitment. In this course, you’ll learn about the job development continuum, how to effectively understand employers’ needs, get new business, make the right placement matches, and begin to build loyalty among business customers. With lessons from business development pros, you’ll come away from this training with a better understanding of how businesses think, and why they need you as much as you need them.
In this course, participants will:
- Gain an essential understanding of what account management is and how to approach your role with a business-focused mindset;
- Understand the necessary basic competencies needed to be successful at connecting and retaining employer relationships;
- Gain an understanding of how to develop your personal competitive edge;
- Learn new strategies for prospecting new business accounts;
- Address and overcome business objections and concerns; and
- Develop basic business retention strategies.
This training has no registration fee, however this training registration is only open to staff from programs contracted under NYC Department of Youth & Community Development (NYC DYCD). Registrants will be asked to provide their program’s NYC DYCD contract name and number in the registration form.
Please note that NYC DYCD monitors training registration and attendance. If you are registered and unable to attend, please send a notification to Saki Mori at smori@wpti.org, so that WPTI may open the seat again.