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phone prior to physical interaction; understanding how to navigate and maximize the first encounter; instructing clients on proper dress, attitude as clients are exposed to current corporate images. Benefits: Workshop enables the client to have preparation skills explained and integrated into job search strategy. Workshop teaches client importance of accuracy, attention to detail, and the utilization of follow-up technique. Role-playing and practice exercises build self-esteem, encourages clients to accent their strengths and motivates clients to become eager for successful job search. Making the Sale--Closing the Deal Purpose: Educate the client on the entire interview process; psychology of questions asked. Clients instructed in "active" interviewing and the pitfalls of passive encounters. Benefits: Workshop enables the client to gain confidence, and become self-assured in answering questions. Educate the client in the necessary but often unseen follow-up to employer encounters. The client will take a "real" role in the interviewing questions, not only in selling to the employer but also in the client's own sense of self-worth. Clients will be better prepared to meet the "peaks and valleys" of job search activities. Planting Seeds Workshop Purpose: Require clients to physically do job search activities while in "Job Search" at the Center. Encourages clients, under direct professional supervision, to motivate one another. Establishes a "team" environment. Creates a coordinated enthusiasm to succeed. Benefits: Workshop enables clients to see "sprouts" occur while still in-group classes. Produces win/win feeling for group members as they see one another succeed. Client success is realized because of pro-activity. Encourages, as if by contagion, other clients to also become active in job search.