If business downsizing or closure is unavoidable, employees will be assisted in quickly finding quality reemployment. The Outplacement Transition team pride itself on placing large numbers of dislocated workers in new jobs before they are laid off from their old ones. The Team match downsizing firms with hiring firms in local area. The US Department of Labor through its Rapid Response program funds the Outplacement Services.

Onsite Services For Business And Dislocated Workers

Find the right solution for your workforce reductions. Services include:

• Unlimited Access to Transition Team Consulting-Retention & Aversion strategies-Business Consultation
• Financial Planning and Debt Counseling
• Transition and Change Management
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Health Care Benefits Resources
• Experienced Unlimited Professional Job Club and Networking for Professional employees
• Labor Market Information on Demand, (Declining and Growth Occupations), Fastest growing occupations
• Small Business Start Up Assistance and Entrepreneurial Training
• Orientations to One-Stop Career Centers Services and "How To" Use Resources Available
• Resume Development Workshop
• Interviewing Preparation Workshop
• Job Search Workshop Tips and Tools Including Posting Resume on CalJobs Job Bank
• Surviving A Layoff Resource Material
• Abbreviated Assessments to Establish Eligibility for Retraining Programs
• Trade Adjustment Assistance Due to Import/Export Competition, including assistance with filing petitions
• Access to professional Business Services Representatives

Unlimited Access to EASTBAY Works One-Stop Business and Career Center Resources

When workers are given short notice of impending layoff, it may not be feasible to offer services at the company's site. At one of our EASTBAY Works Business and Career Centers, (San Pablo, Concord, Brentwood or Pittsburg), employees have available to them a full range of resources to assist them in obtaining employment, ranging from Internet access to the video library. Here are some of the no-fee resources available:

• Technology tools and resources (Internet access, computers software applications such as; Word, resume, career assessment, job search and more)
• Job board displaying current job opportunities
• Facsimile machine, Photocopier,· Telephone, local and regional phone books, daily newspapers
• Labor Market Information · Resource library to Videos, reference books of various employment-related topics
• Referral to job skills training (eligibility criteria may be required)
• Information and referral
• Job search, resume, interviewing workshops
• Career counseling services
• Steps-To-Success certification program
• Experienced staff
• Access to outside business
• Auxiliary aids and services available to individuals with disabilities