Issue 85

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Welcome to newsletter issue number 85! This free newsletter is distributed by Robbin and Associates. Over 25,000 people read this newsletter! You can see over 500 articles, best practices and resources from back issues of the newsletter by going to https://larryrobbin.com/v2/newsletter-archive/. For more information about Robbin and Associates and the consulting and webinar services we provide for organizations like yours, please go to www.LarryRobbin.com.

DOES YOUR PROGRAM NEED MORE MONEY?

DO YOU HAVE A PLAN FOR HOW TO GET IT?

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RESPOND, RECOVER AND RECONNECT - HOW DO YOU RESPOND WHEN YOUR PROGRAM IS BEING CUT BACK OR ELIMINATED?

This helpful information from the National Association of Workforce Development Professionals www.nawdp.org will help you organize your response to cutbacks or the elimination of your workforce program. While this information was initially gathered with a focus on youth programs, the information will be helpful to all kinds of workforce programs that are dealing with cutbacks or elimination. Regardless of your position or type of program, you should check out this very helpful information now so you can be proactive and prepared with a well thought out strategy when your program is threatened with reductions in funding or being eliminated. Don’t wait until you find out your program is being downsized or eliminated. Be prepared now! Click here for the information: https://www.nawdp.org/news/706055/New-Tools-Now-Available-to-Support-Program-Transitions-in-Workforce-Development.htm

UPCOMING FREE WEBINARS FROM LARRY ROBBIN

National League of Cities Opportunity Youth Reengagement Network

Make Your Program a Magnet!

Going Beyond Social Media to Recruit Opportunity Youth!

August 19 3-4:40 EST For a description, registration and questions,

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National Youth Employment Coalition - How Do You Strengthen the Ties That Bind? Management Strategies for Improving Staff Engagement and Reducing Staff Turnover in Youth Employment Programs!

Aug 28, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm EST  

Description, registration and questions

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National Association of Workforce Development Professionals

Supervising in a Sea of Uncertainty! How to Help Your Staff Navigate Challenging Times in Workforce Development!

October 30, 2025 1pm-2:30pm CST

Description, questions and registration

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JOB SEARCH DATABASE

Lists jobs by job title from hundreds of job boards. Click here

https://www.jobsearchdb.com/

 

FREE INTERVIEW PRACTICE TOOLS

These tools will help your job seekers prepare for interviews. Click here for the tools. https://thejobhopper.substack.com/p/free-interview-practice-tools?utm_source=career-essentials.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=career-essentials&_bhlid=323a2eacb7b81a57cc5cfcbd35008b39d33612a7

 

RESOURCES FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE FACING LAYOFFS

OR WHO HAVE BEEN LAID OFF

Click here for the resource list. Dislocated workers are one of the fastest growing populations served by the workforce system. If you want to know how to help dislocated workers get jobs in less time, click here for a description of my webinar From Pink Slip to Paycheck.

NEW AND IN-DEMAND

LARRY ROBBIN WEBINAR TOPICS

HOW DO YOU PREPARE PEOPLE FOR JOBS AND CAREERS

THAT DON'T EXIST? WORLD OF WORK AWARENESS

THAT WORKFORCE STAFF NEEDS TO KNOW NOW!

For a full description email larry@larryrobbin.com.

The world of work is changing so fast that it is hard to stay on top of it. Workforce staff are often inadvertently using out of date strategies and concepts that don't fit with today's realities. For example, we still think in terms of planning for a career when the one career lifestyle is like a vocational dinosaur that is extinct in today's world of work. This eye opening webinar will help you reinvent how you work with people and upgrade your employment counseling so it can be effective even in an economy and labor market that are often unpredictable and in chaos.

 

THE LONG HARD PATH TO EMPLOYMENT!

HOW TO HELP THE HARD-TO-EMPLOY MANAGE REJECTION

AND SUSTAIN JOB SEARCH MOTIVATION TO GET THE JOB!

For a full description email larry@larryrobbin.com

It doesn’t take long for people who are hard-to-employ to give up on job search. Our traditional approaches to talking about job hunting are no match for job searches that are reaching record breaking lengths. We need to help people get new ways of thinking about job search and new job search activities that will keep their motivation in high gear. This webinar will show you how to help people overcome the negative power of rejection so they can hear a boss say, “You got the job!”

 

OUT OF THE BOX JOB SEARCH THAT WORK!

INNOVATIVE NONTRADITIONAL JOB SEARCH STRATEGIES

THAT GET PEOPLE HIRED!

For a full description email larry@larryrobbin.com

We teach people what we think are the tried and true ways to get a job. Yet every day in your community job seekers are breaking those rules and coming up with new and innovative job search ideas on their own that lead to job offers. These are not the ways we teach people to job hunt, but they are strategies we should be incorporating in how we teach job search because they work. Learn about the successful and creative out of the box strategies that people are using to land a job!

 

ARE YOU WORKING TO BURNOUT OR WORKING TO WELLNESS?

HOW TO REDUCE STRESS, ANXIETY AND BURNOUT

IN WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS

For a full description email larry@larryrobbin.com

This is the most stressful time in history to work in workforce development. Between serving people with more barriers to employment and barriers that are more severe, to worrying about funding and our own jobs, this is a very hard time to work in our field. Stress, anxiety and burnout are at all time high levels and have become their own barrier to employment because they interfere with our ability to be effective with the people we serve. While this webinar won't eliminate these challenges, it will give you ideas at the management, program design and staff direct service levels to help you move much closer to working to wellness.

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FIVE COMMON AI MISTAKES THAT WILL DERAIL A JOB SEARCH

https://www.fastcompany.com/91317926/5-common-ai-mistakes-that-are-derailing-your-job-search

 

DEVELOPING AMERICA’S JOB CENTERS IN JAILS

https://www.workforcegps.org/resources/2020/03/13/09/33/Developing-American-Job-Centers-in-Jails

For information about the webinars I provide for programs serving justice impacted individuals, please click here.

 

YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM RESOURCE LIST

Click here for the list.

 

Thanks so much for your interest in this newsletter. I hope you found it to be helpful to you in your work. Don’t forget to forward it to people and encourage them to subscribe. I wish you the best with the very important work that you do in workforce development. You are having such a positive impact on individuals, families, communities and businesses! If you have any feedback or comments about the newsletter, please email me at larry@larryrobbin.com. See you in the next issue!

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