ADKINS LIFE SKILLS

The ten units in the Adkins Life Skills Program: Career Development Series are directed at helping people understand themselves, learn how to explore career and job alternatives, use resources, make career-related choices and plans, acquire the skills they need to apply and interview for jobs and develop work adjustment coping strategies to keep their job and advance on a career ladder... Learners initiate the self-assessment process by examining their interests, abilities, personal characteristics in relation to job and career alternatives. They begin to believe they can make choices and gain confidence in their ability to carry them out; leads to a formal videotaped " Who I Am" presentation... Highly successful, research-proven Group Employability Program--helps agencies help people with the choices, barriers, motivation, attitudinal, and behavioral changes required for successful longterm employment.