Take your LinkedIn presence to the next level! Through our partnership with Harper College, this workshop goes beyond the basics and guides you through practical, actionable strategies to boost your job search, including: 🔹 Generating tailored headlines and summaries with AI-powered suggestions 🔹 Discovering strategies to target the right jobs and employers 🔹 Optimizing and balancing your...
Are You Ready? Strengthen your interview techniques and gain confidence in a supportive 45-minute session. Once registered, you will be asked to share your resume and a job lead prior to attending the session. Location: Education and Work Center 6704 Barrington Road Hanover Park, IL 60133 PLEASE NOTE: The American Job Center in Wheeling...
Excel Focus on Functions- Work with Text and Dates: CONCATENATE, TODAY, Flash Fill and Delimited Text Text strings and dates can cause big problems in a spreadsheet if you're not aware of how to identify and manipulate them! In this 90-minute webinar we'll talk about basic text functions like CONCATENATE and date functions like TODAY....
PowerPoint: create effective data visualization presentations Learn to use PowerPoint's graphic options like charts, tables, SmartArt, and more to create meaningful and impactful presentations that help your audience visualize and understand key data points. Creating impactful PowerPoint presentations involves leveraging its graphic options to visualize data effectively. Learn how about these key tools and how...
Excel Advanced Concepts - Dashboards: Use PivotTables, Sparklines, Charts, VLOOKUP to create Excel Dashboards Dashboards are at-a-glance summaries that use graphics to illustrate progress towards a goal. Excel has a number of features like PivotTables, PivotCharts, Sparklines, and Functions that can be combined to create surprisingly robust dashboards. We highly recommend you have some familiarity...
Canva Basics - Create content for print, presentations and social media with this free online graphic design app You don't need to be a graphic designer to produce professional looking designs! By utilizing Canva's built-in templates, photo and font options anyone can create exciting content to be shared online, posted on social media site, or...
Save the date! The goal: Get ready! Get set! Get Hired! Find out about career paths, pre-apprentices and Registered Apprenticeship Programs for multiple industries. What is a Career MiniMart? EMPLOYER LIST WILL BE EMAILED TO REGISTRANTS VIA EVENT CONFIRMATION starting April 24th. BE SURE TO CLICK ON VIEW YOUR ORDER CONFIRMATION Drop into the Career Mini-Mart Resource Center. Arrive...
The American Job Center in Wheeling is on the move! Staff will be on-site offering free employment and career services. Stop by for free job search assistance, resume reviews, interview preparation, and access to employment and training resources. Open to all job seekers and NO appointment necessary. Location and Dates: Schaumburg Township District Library Locations:...
Organize Your Job Search! A Step-by-Step Guide - Organize your Job Search – Get Results! Get Help! Get Hired! Get tips on what makes an effective job search and how to target your resume, develop a crisp “elevator speech,” practice successful interview techniques, and more. How do you start? Where do you start? What do you...
Are You Ready? Strengthen Your Resume in 45 Minutes. Get support and guidance to improve your resume or create a targeted version to specific job opportunities. Work with the American Job Center staff in our Wheeling computer lab in a 45-minute session. Location: American Job Center in Wheeling 1400 S Wolf Road, Building 200, Suite...
Microsoft Excel Basics: Excel Basics: Spreadsheet construction, basic formulas and functions, sort, filter, formatting, and printing. This two-day in-person workshop (May 6th & 7th at 9:30am) is designed to introduce key concepts crucial to building a working knowledge of Microsoft Excel. In this class we'll talk about the Excel environment, how spreadsheets work, spreadsheet construction,...
Learn to format a standard applicant tracking system, compliant resume including how to set tabs correctly, insert stored text, and track changes. Many companies use Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) to manage resumes and applications. If the ATS can’t read or understand the information on your resume, your application might not be evaluated or considered. For...
