Fees for counseling and testing and assessment are on a sliding scale. For JVS locations and contact information, click here. Job Finders is an intensive program which teaches the unemployed professional the fine art of job campaigning. It features a special emphasis on telemarketing and networking as approaches to developing job leads and offers videotaped mock interviews with constructive feedback. Job Finders meets for a total of twenty-four hours over a three day period, in Skokie.
Programs alternate between various locations.
The program includes career counseling and assessment, individual job placement, monthly seminars and mentoring services. JEN is a cooperative partnership between JVS, more than 60 affiliated congregations, the Chicago Board of Rabbis and the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago. It serves middle and upper level managers and professionals whose jobs have been impacted by corporate restructuring as well as career changers, young professionals and college and post graduate students. JEN offers a wide array of services to congregation members and their adult children, enabling them to wage a successful job campaign in today's rapidly changing marketplace. Unemployed senior executives are linked with mentors in the Jewish community.