“Your Office Away from Home”
Internet Access & Business Website Listings
Telephone Book and Telephone
Fax Machine, Typewriter, Copy Machine
Employment Resource Library
Job Bank (Job Listing) & Job Hotline Number
Business Profiles
Company Brochures and Business Cards
Resume Builder Program
Computer Training and Job Skills Training
Individual Job Ready Training Sessions
Job Fair Information
Career Weekly and Employment Guide
The Employment Readiness Resource Center is located inside the Army Community Service
Center. No appointment is necessary to use the ERP Resource Center. If you want to complete an individual training session, then you must call (803) 751- 5256 to schedule an appointment.
(Self-pace tutorials-receive training certificate)
Must have an appointment.
• Basic Computer Skills
• Internet
• MS Word
• Excel, Access, PowerPoint
Typing software that will help boost efficiency and enhance productivity
with excellent keyboarding skills. You can also take a typing test to
assess your
typing speed.
(Contact ACS @ 803 751-5256 for a listing of class dates and times)
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• Employment Readiness Orientation
• Resume Writing for Beginners
(Private sector/resumes for Job Fairs)
• Steps to Federal Employment
(Federal hiring process and Army Resumix)
• Successful Interviewing and Salary Negotiations
• Careers-on-the-Go!! Portable Careers
• Starting and Running a Small Business
• Career Exploration
(Career Assessment and Goal Setting)
• Dialing for Jobs, Quick Jobs Seminar
• The 30-Minute Cover Letter
• Skills!Skills!Skills!
• Spouse Overseas Employment
(Individual session) |
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• Resumes and Cover Letters
• Dress for Success
• Salary Negotiations
• Preparing for an Interview
• Job Searching Skills
• Volunteer Activities Count
• Your’re Hired-Employers Give Tips for Successful Interviewing
• Career Track-Great Careers in Two Years or Less
• Skills Identification-Discovering Your Skills
• You Do Have Experience! How to Identify,
Prove, and Improve Your Job Skills
• How to Find a Job on the Internet
• Log on for Success Using Internet Job Sites
• Jist Cards-Your Quick and Easy Job Search Tool
• Why Should I Hire You |
Contact the ERP Office to schedule an appointment.
 • Learn about military spouse scholarships
• Free on-line career assessment
• Meet with career counselor to discuss
employment/education goals
Midlands Technical College offers short certification and diploma
programs. Earn a credential that can follow-up you where ever you go!!
Two door prizes ($100 vouchers used towards Quick Jobs
Program class) will be given out to military spouse participants.
(Workkeys Credential)
- Nationwide standard for measuring and communicating basic workplace skills
- Designed to match prospective employees to careers
- Credential reflecting your job skills level gives applicant the “upper edge"
 “ A Career that Follows You”
Income Tax Courses are offered at convenient times and locations nationwide. So whether you’re at home with children, employed
full-time, a student, or retired, there’s sure to be a course time that
fits your schedule. Classes run mid Sept through mid Nov.
“A Mobile Career for a Mobile Spouse”
www.spousestoteachers.com
Spouses to Teachers is a Department of Defense
pilot project designed to assist spouses of active
duty and reserve military members to become
public school teachers.
Create a professional resume and cover letter with the Win Way Deluxe Program
Tutorial for beginners, AutoWriter Phrase Inserter
Resume Design Themes, built-in spell checker
Contains 13,000 resumes and cover letter formats
(CD-Rom Training)
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Building a Store On eBay
You’ll learn quickly the critical steps to setting up and
operating your own successful eBay store.
Making Money on eBay
Learn how to bid successfully, choose the best category to
list your items for sale, get the selling price you want and protect yourself
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Contact ACS at 751-6325/5256 for dates and times of classes.
Don’t let your job searching stress you out!! Learn fun ways on
how to cope while you are looking for employment. ACS offers
a wide range of workshops:
• Managing Your Emotions
• Stepping For Stress Management (On-post walking groups)
• Waiting to Exhale (Creative methods such as painting, ceramics)
Contact ACS at 751-5256 for class dates or to schedule an appointment with an
ACS financial counselor.
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Do you know how much money you need to make to contribute to
the family income to cover your family expenses? Are you aware
that some employers check your credit history as part of their hiring process? ACS financial counselors are available for individual appointments to help you with a spending plan and explain how
to read your credit report. Here are some of the classes ACS offers: |
• Budget Development and
Record Keeping
• Check Book Maintenance
• Savings and Investing |
• Using Credit Wisely
• Credit and Credit Reports
• Car and Home Buying |
• Appearance on the Job - Pride and self-confidence through good grooming
• Workplace Attitudes and Behaviors - Good attitudes and behaviors are keys to keep jobs
• Literacy Skills on the Job - Covers office equipment, memos, and letters
• Employer Expectations - Includes being on time, dependable, and cooperation
• Workplace Phone Skills - Discusses projected images and proper technique
• Money Management - Calculate gross and net pay, figure deductions, and set budgets
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The Staffcentrix
Portable Career & Virtual Assistant
Training Program™
A Program for Military Spouses Based
Upon the
Rapidly Growing
“Virtual Assistant” Industry |
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“Our mission is to prepare military spouses to complete successfully in the global job
marketplace
as self-employed virtual business owners.” Victoria Parham, Military Spouse,
VSSCyberOffice.com President
Virtual Assistants (VAs) are self-employed individuals who provide off-site business - support
services to their clients. These services vary from one VA to the next, based on their experience and expertise, and can include day-to-day administrative tasks, competitive research, Website design,
resume writing, accounting, bookkeeping services, marketing support, translation, and graphic
design. Work assignments are communicated through e-mail, phone, fax, mail, diskette transfer,
and real-time online messaging. The virtual nature of these relationships lends itself easily to the
transient or “nomadic” lifestyle that is so much a part of military family life.
Victoria Parham (retired military spouse and veteran) is the president and chief technology
officer for VSSCyberOffice.com, a forerunner in the virtual support services industry, an advocate of
portable careers for trailing spouses and family members. Its web-based Virtual Business Owners
Training Program(tm), the first Virtual Careers program for Department of Defense ID Cardholders,
is available and accessible at military bases around the world.
To learn more about the Virtual Business Owners Training Program go to:
www.vsscyberoffice.com/vbo
 Fort Jackson ERP has partnered with the University of South Carolina
Small Business Development Center conduct quarterly seminars
(Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct) on “Starting and Running A Small Business.”
Fort Jackson ERP has partnered with Service Corps Of Retired Executives (SCORE) Counselors to America’s Small Business to conduct
semi-annual seminars on “Starting and Running a Small Business.
Contact the ERP Office for dates and times up small business seminars.
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