WorkAbility1 Student & Parent Information Guide   

WorkAbility1 Program Application 

(Aplicacion en Espanol)

WorkAbility1 Program Informational Flyer 

  Pre-Employment Checklist

Use this checklist as a guideline to prepare for employment!

    Start here for your "Reality Check" budget!

• Banking and credit information                                                                                          
• Wage and Hour Projection 
• Budget worksheet  
• Budget Blank Template - Click on "Download Now" to open.

California Career Zone Assessments:                                            

• CA Career Zone Home Page 
• O*Net  - California Resource Network 
• Full Assessment
  • California Career Zone Guide
  • California Career Zone assessment worksheet
  • California Career Zone Assessment - Interest Profiler
  • Explore Industry Sector  
• Quick Assessment
  • California Career Zone "Quick Assessment" Guide
  • California Career Zone Quick Assessment
  • Claifornia Career Zone "The Work Importance Profiler"
• Holland Occupational Themes
  • Holland Occupational Themes worksheet to be used with "CA Quick Assessment"
  • Holland's General Occupational Themes

California Cafe: 

• California Cafe  Home page
• Get Started  - Uncover who you are and what you want to be.
• Get a Pathway  - Explore 15 career pathways with good job opportunities.
• Get Experience  - Practice and build workplace skills.
• Get Advice   - Solve problems that get in your ways.
• Get Job Ready  - Build the skills you need to get hired.
• Get Hired  - Follow these steps to find a job.

Activity Index   

Career View Assessments: 

• Career Search
• Kid's Search and Kid's Search worksheet
• Who R You?
• Who R You? Guide 

Explore Career Clusters

Additional Assessments and Helpful planning worksheets:

• Career Cluster Interest Survey - Select from sixteen career clusters to find a career!
• Career Exploration Tools

• Envision Your Career (DVD Required):
  • Envision Your Career Guide
  • Envision Your Career Occupational List
  • Envision Your Career Scoring Sheet  

• What is YOUR Learning Style?
• Learning Styles   - Information and Multiple Intelligences Test

• Dreamsheet - Transition Planning Profile   
• My Profile   (11th and 12th Grades)
• Setting goals
• Strengths and Skills I Possess
• Student Work Values
• Things are about to change -Transition Video's: Education, Independent Living, Financial, Health Care, Social, Recreation  
• Test Prep Review  - Practice tests including: ASVAB, CASHEE, GED, DMV, SAT, ACT, ect.
• Tips For Success: Guide to Transition
• Transition Needs Self Survey
• Wizard  - Personal Data program

Activity Index   

Check-out other links to career options:

• Apprenticeship Program - List of training programs available in CA.
• Career Direction - List of vocational training sites.
• Center for Employment Training (CET) - Vocational career training.
• Career Information - Information on a variety of careers.
• Emergency Training Services - Careers in the Emergency Medical Services.
• Energy Sector Careers  - List of Colleges that provide emerging new energy systems careers.
• Next Move  - What do you want to do for a living?
• My Skills, My Future  - Build a bridge to your new career. 
• Occupational Outlook Handbook
• Occupational Guides - Information sheets covering individual careers.
• WyoTech Career Programs - Career training is available in: Automotive, aviation, diesel and motorcycle technologies, collision refinishing, heating, and ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC).

Armed Forces Information:

• "Today's Military"
• ASVAB  - Career Exploration Program.
• Practice the "ASVAB"

Activity Index

  Preparing for College:                                    

• Bay Area Career Guide - Career options and College choices.                                      
• California Chafee Grant Program for Foster Youth
• College Board - Post-secondary planning
• Community Colleges by State
• Disabled Students Program and Services - Contact information 
• Disability-Related Scholarships and Awards
• Education Planner - One stop career and college planning site!
• Overview - Match your career college goals!
• Santa Clara County Community Colleges: Career Training & Career Planning Services  
• Web Sites: Colleges, Financial Aid; Practice Tests; Scholarship Search Information
• 10 Tips you need to survive college 

Personal Statement and Essay Guide:

• Your Essay is Your Personal Statement
• How to write an autobiography
• The Personal Statement

Letter of Recommendation Guide:

• Letter of recommendation request
• Letter of recommendation outline
• Power verbs

Gavilan College  - Gilroy CA

Boston Reed College  at Gavilan College

• E.K.G. Technician
• Personal Fitness Trainer Certification
• Pharmacy Technician
• Veterinary Assistant Training Program

Financial Aid:

• Ed Fund Building Futures
• Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)
• Paying for College in a Down Economy

  Job Readiness:                                                                                 

• Are you Job Ready 
• "Work Importance Profiler" - Helps you find out what is most important to you in a job.
• Getting Ready to Find a Job
• Advance Time Planning
• Social Networking Precautions
• 25 Ways to Avoid Being Hired

Check-out: "Employability Skills"

Creating References:

• Your List of References
• Reference request
• High School Staff reference request form
• References Blank Template - Click on "Download Now" to open.

 Guide to Youth Labor Laws: Fact sheet for teen workers

"Young Workers": Are You a Working Teen? Protect Your Health! Know Your Rights!

Activity Index

 Employment Application:                                                                                

• Do's for applications
• Reasons for leaving
• Tips for Success: Pre-employment application
• Example of an employment application
• Job Descriptor: Type in a "Keyword" in the search box
• Employment application Blank
• Informational Application Blank  

Useful application forms:

• Online application worksheet  - Complete before starting an online application
• Application Fax Cover Sheet

  Job Search:                                                                                                

• Source of Job Leads
• How to "Network"
• Looking at yourself in a New Way!
• Job search log

  Interview Skills:                                                                                               

The First Impression is made within the first 7 seconds of meeting the employer!

MAKE IT COUNT!

• Getting Hired  - Video Interview Training
• Pre-interview checklist
• Before the interview last minute checklist
• Questions to ask the employer
• Successful Interviewing: The Do's and Don'ts
• Thank you letter - Sample

 Activity Index

  Job Offer and Retention:                                                                   

• Job Offer Questions
• Entry-level Workers - Serious problems
• Positive work habits
• Negotiating a Job Offer
• Resignation Letter - Sample

 Department of Motor Vehicles                                                                     

• California DMV - Approved: Hollister Online Driver's Education Course
• DMV California Teens: Tutorial and Sample Tests
• DMV Information
• California Identification Card Information
• Drive Rite Driving School

Public Transportation:

• County Express San Benito Transit - Maps and bus schedules.
•  VTA, Santa Clara Valley Transportation - Maps and bus schedules.

Helpful Information:

• Buying A Used Car

Activity Index   

Activity Index

Click on the  training links to discover possibilities for your career!

• Apprenticeship Programs and Apprenticeship Resource Center - List of training programs available in California.
• California Conservation Corps
• Career Direction - List of vocational training sites.
• Center for Employment Training (CET) - Vocational career training.
• Emergency Training Services - Careers in the Emergency Medical Services.
• Goodwill of Silicon Valley
• Job Star Central - Job Search Guide!
• Mission Trails Regional Occupational Program
  • Certified Nursing Assistant
• San Benito County One-Stop Career Center - To apply you must be 14-21 years of age. Youth Program. Steps to Participation, Youth Employment Service Application  and required documentation.  
• Santa Clara County Regional Occupational Program-South (SCROP)
• San Jose Job Corps - Vocational Training
• Vocational and Technical Schools with-in California.
• WyoTech Career Program - Career training is available in: Automotive, aviation, diesel and motorcycle technologies, and collision refinishing, heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC).

  Need a great resume?                                                                            

YOUR RESUME CAN GET YOU ...

* THROUGH THE DOOR!

* AN INTERVIEW AHEAD OF OTHERS!

• Resume writing guide checklist                                                                                          
• Resume guide
• Writing general objective
• Recognizing skills and abilities
• Personal and self management skills words
• Power verbs words
• What employers want! Action words
• Resume review
• Reference request form
• Your List of References
• References Blank Template - Click on "Download Now" to open.
• Sample resume
• My First Resume  - Resume
• Resume Blank Template - Click on "Download Now" to open.
• Resume Blank Template
• Writing a successful cover letter and outline
• Fax Cover Sheet

 Click on a "Job Category" below to find an application. 

Automotive: Minimum 18 years old  and have a DMV license.                              

• Auto Zone                                                                                                                        
• O'Reily Atomotive Parts  
• Rossi's Tires Auto Service

 Bank: Minimum 18 years old.

• Bank of America
• Chase
• Santa Barbara Bank and Trust
• Union Bank
• Wells Fargo

  Cell Phone and Information Technology: Minimum 18 years old. 

• ATT
• Sprint
• Verizon - Post your resume.

  CA State & Federal: Minimum 16 years old, unless otherwise indicated.

• Bureau of Land Management - Minimum 18 year old, High School graduate and have a current DMV license. Apply in January and February for the up-coming seasonal positions.
• California Conservation Corps
• CalOpps  - Your ultimate resource for public employment opportunities.
• Hollister Hills SVRA Park - Employment application for California State Parks (Form #678).
• O*Net  - California Resource Network
• State of California Jobs
• State of California Leap List
• USA Jobs - Working For America. Minimum 18 years old.

Activity Index or Job Category 

  City & County: Minimum 16 years old to apply, unless otherwise indicated.

• City of Hollister
• San Benito County One-Stop Career Center - To apply you must be 14-21 years of age. Youth Program. Steps to Participation, Youth Employment Service Application  and required documentation. 
• San Benito County Employment
• San Benito High School Student Employment Application - Minimum 14 years old.
• YMCA - Central Coast

  Delivery: Minimum 18 years old and have a DMV license.          

• Federal Express - Post your resume.
• UPS Careers

  Grocery Stores: Minimum 16 years old.                                 

• Nob Hill Foods
• Safeway Foods
• Save Mart Supermarket

  Hardware Stores: Minimum 18 years old.

• Ace Hardware - Post your resume.
• Home Depot
• Lowes
• Orchard Supply Hardware

 Job Search - Employment & Career:

• All Retail Jobs
• California Direct Connect
• Caljobs: Employment Development Department
• Career Builder
• Getting Hired  - Career & community for talented people with disabilities. Search jobs nationwide.
• Indeed
• Monterey Bay Jobs  - Local jobs for local people
• Online Jobs Applications - We help you get hired!
• Snagajob  - The dream begins with the right job
• Work2future - Connecting job seekers and businesses in Santa Clara County.

Activity Index  or Job Category   

 Manufacturing: Minimum 18 years old, unless otherwise indicated.

• PG&E
• Milgard Windows - Post your resume.
• West Marine  - Minimum 16 years old.

  Restaurants & Fast Foods: Minimum 16 years old, unless otherwise indicated.

ServSafe Food Handler Program - The premier provider of food safety training

Food Handler Training & Testing   - Earn a Professional Food Handler certification

• A and W                                                                                  
• Burger King
• Domino's Pizza
• In-N-Out Burger
• Jack-In-The-Box
• KFC
• Little Caesars Pizza
• McDonalds
• Panda Express or Panda Express Hollister application
• Papa Murphy's Pizza
• Pizza Hut
• Quiznos Sub - Minimum 18 years old.
• Round Table Pizza
• Sonic Drive-In
• Starbucks - Minimum 18 years old.
• Straw Hat Pizza
• Subway
• Taco Bell

  Retail Sales & Services: Minimum 16 years old to apply, unless otherwise indicated.

• Athleta; Banana Republic; GAP; Old Navy; Piperlime
• Barnes & Noble
• Big 5 Sporting Goods - E-mail cover letter resume. To careers@big5corp.com. Minimum 18 years old.
• Best Buy
• Blockbuster - Minimum 18 years old.
• Ghirardelli Chocolate Company - Minimum 18 years old.
• Costco - Minimum 18 years old.
• Gamestop
• Goodwill Store
• Hollister Motorsports  - Minimum 18 years old and have DMV licenses. Post your resume.
• HomeGoods
• K-mart Store
• Kohl's
• Liberty Tax Service - Tempory employment
• Marshalls
• Payless Shoes Source - Minimum 18 years old.
• Radio Shack - Minimum 18 years old.
• Sears
• Staples - Minimum 18 years old.
• Target Store
• T-J-Maxx
• Toys"R"US

 Activity Index  or Job Category   

 Temporary Agencies: Minimum 18 years old.

• Infinity Staffing
• Kelly Services
• Manpower
• Select Staffing

 Theme Parks:                                                                              

• Gilroy Gardens   - Minimum 16 years of age.
• Swank Farms                                     

  Volunteer Opportunities:                                         

• Serve Gov - Find a volunteer opportunity nationwide.
• All For Good - Local volunteering.