Linda Perkins
Theodore,AL
Summary
Client-focused Employment Specialist with 17 years of experience working with clients from diverse career backgrounds to support comprehensive career and job searches. Tenacious advocate, supporting job seekers through rigorous job search processes. Detailed resume and job application specialist, helping clients generate targeted documents with strategic composition.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Employment Specialist
Goodwill Gulf Coast
Mobile, Alabama
07.2006 - 01.2022
- Matched clients to open positions based on skills and work requirements.
- Recognized client employment barriers and devised strategies to resolve.
- Maintained records of consumer employment activity such as potential and current employers.
- Conducted assessments, interviews and job trials with clients to develop person-centered plans for employment and support.
- Conducted pre-screening interviews and prepared preliminary evaluations to refer best-qualified applicants to departments for selection.
- Marketed individual skills, abilities and interests to develop potential employment opportunities and secure community employment.
- Developed relationships with diverse businesses to develop competitive and permanent job opportunities for consumers.
- Prepared and analyzed reports pertaining to employee turnover, recruitment, compensation, employee relations and unemployment.
Education
Associate of Applied Science -
S. D. Bishop State Community College
Mobile, ALBachelor of Science - Business Administration
University of Mobile
Mobile, ALSkills
- Vocational Rehabilitation
- Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)
- Organizational Standards
- Employment Recordkeeping
- Policy Interpretation
- Applicant Qualification
- Work Complaint Handling
- Obtaining Referrals
- Networking and Partnership Development
- Organizational Systems
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
- Database Maintenance
Timeline
Employment Specialist
Goodwill Gulf Coast
07.2006 - 01.2022
Associate of Applied Science -
S. D. Bishop State Community College
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration
University of Mobile
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