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readiness and career transition environment. Her individual qualifications and the qualification of her staff are as follows: Phyllis Talarico: Phyllis Talarico developed the Placement Department for Larson Training Centers, Inc., training provider for the City of Anaheim as well as seventeen other southern California SDAs. In the last year as Placement Director, Mrs. Talarico has serviced the employment needs of nearly one thousand clients, placing a remarkable 97% of all eligible clients in full-time positions, all well above entry level earning. It is, then, easy to see why the City of Anaheim, the City of Santa Ana, the Pr/vate Industry Aerospace Network, and the City of CarsordLomita/Torrance have all named Larson Training Centers "Service Provider of the Year." Mrs. Talarico wrote and implemented department policy, created and taught employability readiness curriculum, conducted seminars and professional development workshops specifically aimed at resume preparation, job search skills and strategy, career goal assessment and formulation, interview and negotiation technique, and career transition methodology. In her decade of experience, Mrs. Talarico has remained current on relevant and topical labor codes, created job descriptions, interfaced with an extraordinary array of employers, and utilized her reputation in the industry to better understand the direction of hiring trends across the southern California labor market. Her advice bas helped realize the often unattainable for a preponderance of her Title IIA, Title Ili, and injured worker client population. Mrs. Talarico is well regarded in the placement industry and her assistance has been actively sought by a variety of organizations and local agencies. Mrs. Talarico has volunteered her services for community job fair activities, employability workshops, and policy development bodies. She has presented her workshops on resume preparation, application strategy, interview techniques, and career goals development for the City of Carson/Lomita/Torrance PIC at their "Inspire to Hire Job Fair." Her work at this event received such positive community response from attendees that participants were literally hired on the spot from employers sitting in on the workshop presentations. Mrs. Talarico's work extends into other agencies too. She has been a volunteer to Job Developers in the City of Long Beach Career Transition Center, the Long Beach Shipyard, the Orange County PIC ("Balance"), the Santa Ana Work Center, and the City of Anaheim One-Stop Center. It is only fitting that Epic respond to the City of Santa Ana's current RFP as Epic is keenly aware of the City's WtW mission. She has served on the City of Anaheim's Job Development Steering