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PASREP Newsletter: Spring 2009 Do What You Love! and High Impact Networking! Workshops Offered at AACIL Wollman explained that the Do What You Love! Workshop is based on the book “What Color is Your Parachute?” by Richard Bolles and is considered one of the best-selling career guidance books in the world. Fortune magazine calls Parachute the ‘gold standard of career guides’. Pam Spence, a recent workshop graduate says that “You can become employable in a down market with the skills you learn in this course. The class is the ‘missing link’ in finding out what best fits your world of work”. A recent study involving vocational rehabilitation (VR) customers indicated that when the customers obtained a job that was directly related to their actual skills and interests, the mean weekly wage for these participants was $529.88, almost 90% higher than for those VR customers who obtained employment that was not related to their actual skills and interests. Networking skills can be challenging for many people. Many people do not know others who can help them find a job, especially if they are not naturally outgoing; or have chronic health conditions that limit their ability to get around. Wollman developed the High Impact! Networking workshop to introduce participants to the PIE Method for Career Success, from a technique developed by Daniel Porot. The PIE (Pleasure, Informational Interview and Employment) method uses a unique technique to help job seekers build a social network. Participants research and contact people who are doing the job that he or she would like to do. After contact, the participant holds an informational interview of the contact to gain information about the job and also asks for other names of people in the field that they may be able to interview, as well. Workshop participants build a social network of people who have the power to hire them for the job of their choice. A study reported by Temple University Journal of Rehabilitation in 2005 on the benefits of social capital for people with disabilities and employment found that when persons were granted an interview because of a personal recommendation, they subsequently received job offers at a rate that was almost 10 times higher than those who interviewed for jobs without a personal recommendation. Wollman hopes to expand the Do What You Love! and High-Impact Networking! Workshops for online use by others across the State. For more information on the workshops, contact Ed Wollman at 734-971-0277 ext. 32 or edwoll@aacil.org We Need Your Assistance In order to make sure that you receive your copy of Legislator’s PASREP Update in the best format for you, we would like to know if you would prefer to receive it in electronic (email) or hard copy (postal). Please email us at cyndy.v@dakc.us or call 616-949-1100 ext. 225. Thank you for your interest in the Personal Assistance Services Reimbursement Employment Program. Regional Centers for Independent Living If you fell that the PASREP program would increase your ability to be a vital part of the Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living Disability Network/Mid-Michigan Disability Network/Oakland Macomb Education on PASREP Disability Advocates of Kent County iIs facilitating Disability /Network
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