It works like a private outplacement agency. PSG chapters run seminars on networking, interviewing, using the telephone as a tool, salary negotiations, resumes and cover letters, word processing and the Internet and interviewing skills. Computers, faxes, copiers and telephones are available to members. She believes that members find jobs four to six weeks earlier than other professional unemployment recipients. This approach pays off for the state.
Members have to attend orientation seminars and volunteer a certain amount of time.
They teach seminars and develop programs for getting their members' names in front of employers. I'm looking at a basket of mail that's filled to the brim and another that needs sorting. Rafael De La Pena, who held various management jobs in his native Puerto Rico before moving to Princeton, N.J., for family reasons, says that PSG has helped him to refocus his job search. I received training in how to prepare myself for the market, which of my skills are most marketable and how to cope with the fact that I'm less marketable than I was before. Jessie has also given me references to potential employers.