To participate in the Job Juggler eCommunity, you first need to master the following four skills:

1. Register on LWPS, Lifework Planning Services, a community learning space.
2. Enter your Personal Profile.
3. Join the Job Juggler Community.
4. Make me your friend and make friends with other students.

REGISTER ON LWPS

1. View the LWPS Home Page.

2. Click on "register for an account."

2. Read the two policies (Lifework planning services terms and conditions and private policy)

3. Enter into the horizontal templates on this page your name (first and last) and your email address.

5. Click "Register". You can be found through a search engine when you register on a website, therefore enter only information about yourself that you are willing to share with the public.

6. In a couple minutes, you will receive an email invitation to join LifeWork Planning Services (LWPS).

7. In the mean time, view Sally's Personal Profile. You can also view the Personal Profile of those who have joined the Job Juggler community by clicking on their names under "Members" in the menu on the right side of the page under the gold box.

8. Check your email. If you have received your username and password, then enter it on lifeworkps.com when you log in.

ENTER YOUR PERSONAL PROFILE

1. If you click on the question mark in the gold box, this will bring you to your personal profile page.

2. Click on "Edit this profile." Scroll down to "Who am I?" Write a short introduction to yourself. Write a couple sentences about yourself (your "elevator speech").
This will be public, so write something appropriate.

3. Scroll down to the very bottom of the page and click on "Save your profile." You can change your profile at your convenience by going back into "Edit This Profile."

4. To upload a photo of you or some other picture that you would like to represent yourself, first make sure you have the photo or picture in your computer files. Click on "Change site picture," and then click on "Choose File." The click will take you to your computer files, where you can locate the photo or picture, then click on it. The file that you clicked on will appear next to "Choose File."

4. Click on "Refresh".

JOIN THE JOB JUGGLER COMMUNITY

1. Click in the gold box on "click here to join this community." You are now an official member of the Job Juggler Community.

3. Click on "refresh".

MAKE ME YOUR FRIEND AND MAKE FRIENDS WITH YOU CLASSMATES

1. Make us your friends by clicking in our gold box "make this user my friend".

2. You can make your classmates your friends by returning to the Job Juggler community and scrolling down to "Friends" and clicking on each person's name and making him or her your friend by clicking on the link in his or her gold box that says "make this user my friend."

FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY STUDENTS

View: LWPS Help and proceed through the lessons.

By surfing career information sites, job seekers never really know if they have grasped the concepts that they need to find satisfying work. Many workers in job transition do not have the time or resources to fully update themselves on job search strategies from F2F meetings with a career coach or counselor.

An online job search course is quick and easy to understand and implement in the job search campaign. The Web-based program covers the basics in job search strategies. An advantage of the e-course is that it is regularly updated, Students access the most current career and labor market information, career technology skills, and job search techniques.

Learning activities build upon the concept that job seekers find satisfying work more effectively by applying concepts learnd in the lessons and by developing support systems. Through discussion questions, students give and receive free support from other workers in transition.

As we make our way through an uncharted virtual world and uncertain global economy, we have many job search balls to juggle. Online learning can help pave the way in a comprehensive, efficient, and in-depth manner that saves travel cost and time.

Career practitioners can enhance their value to job seekers by offering a Web-based job search strategies and lifelong employability course and by earning a Job Search Practitioner (JSP) certificate.

Students can transfer their skills from school to work - now and for the rest of their lives.

Job seekers know that employability is Job #!. Through The Job Juggler, they can find a job better and faster.

Associations can use The Job Juggler to recruit and retain members.

Employers can use The Job Juggler for recruitment, retention, and outplacement.

The Job Juggler e-course digests the deluge of career information that is available through print and online media and shares the most valuable job search strategies in an orderly, sequential way. Students access the program from their own computer, at their own pace, and in the comfort of their own home or environment of choice. By receiving the information through an online course, students gain a sense of accomplishment in mastering a body of knowledge. By answering progress, discussion, and review questions, they receive immediate feedback on how they have grasped the concepts.

The e-course contains a discussion question for each lesson. To expand our knowledge on each topic lesson, I've created a Job Juggler community. Through this online community, we can connect, network, collaborate, add resources, and reflect on each topic listed below.

One of the primary benefits of The Job Juggler is to help you organize your job search on the Internet. Click here for suggestions of how to store your information.

Whether taken as part of a career advising service or as a stand-alone learning tool, this delivery system quickly and efficiently digests information into useful knowledge for the job search. Students who complete this e-course know that they are job ready.

Inspiration for creating an employability skills course came from the following mentors:

Bolles, R. "What Color Is Your Parachute?" Ten Speed Press.

Elsdon, R. "Affiliation in the Workplace: Value Creation in the New Organization." Praeger

J. Harris-Bowlsbey; B.H. Suddarth and D.M. Reile, authors of "Facilitating Career Development Student Textbook." National Career Development Association;

Floyd, R. Contributor to original Career Development Facilitator curriculum and editor of this course;

Hoppin, J. and Splete, H. Editors of "Curriculum for Career Development Facilitators," Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan.

Gelardin, S. (2005). National Career Development Association Becoming Involved in Career-Related Public Policy Planning. Search: Sally Gelardin.

Gelardin, S. (2003-5) The Job Juggler Web-based, self-paced job search and employability program.

Walz, G. & Knowdell, R., Editors. “The Transformation of Work Strategies for a New Economy: Selected Articles from the 2004 International Career Development Conference” (2004). Counseling Outfitters. Tucson, AZ.

We want to hear from you. In the "comments" box below, post your career related questions, reflections, suggestions, information, and activities. Click on "Add Comment" below the box when you have completed entering your comment.

Saved Comments

10/24/06
I am wading through the first lesson, on The Job Search. I am a little frustrated for the following reason: when I am within a lesson, leave, and return later (like to do the activities), I can't seem to go to where I left off without going through each screen and answering the question again. There must be a way to go directly to the page where I want to be, but I'm not seeing the links.