BY KAREN BOSSICK

Want to get a job? Keep a job? Build a career for a better future?

The Advocates’ Skills for Success Employment Program begins Tuesday, April 14. And there are still some spots available for both men and women.

The seven-week program meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5 to 7 p.m. And childcare is available.

Classes cover such things as:

The power of commitment

Your personal skills and strengths, and how to speak powerfully about yourself

How to succeed on the job

The magic of goal setting

How to successfully search for a job

Interviewing knowledge and practice

Creating your resume

Communication in the workplace

Conflict resolution

Dress for Success – making a fabulous first impression

Graduates will leave the program with a completed resume, interview skills and a professional outfit for re-entering the workforce. Graduates also receive a $200 stipend to help kick off their job searches.

Skills for Success was founded 15 years ago. About 92 percent of its graduates have either gained employment or improved their work situation.

“Skills for Success starts with how commitment can alter the course of our lives,” said Susan Fierman, the Skills for Success program director. “Our commitment allows us new access to our intelligence, our hearts, and our intention.”

Fierman said the program is long enough to allow participants to investigate new concepts of success and experience a new success of themselves.

“In order for people to produce different results than they are already producing in their lives, they need to first know something different about themselves. And I say, ‘Know on purpose,’ ” said Fierman. “They can’t think it. They need to experience it and to be able to take action from this new place.”

To register call Susan at 208 788-4191.