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Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
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If it's going to be, it's up to me!
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TANYA RABEC

TANYA RABEC

Career Coach
Appleton,WI

Summary

Collaborative Career Coach with solid experience supporting individuals with diverse backgrounds and abilities to navigate job market and pursue employment opportunities. Skilled at creating customized employment plans, identifying job and up-skilling opportunities, and writing effective resumes. Reliable and dedicated to fostering long term sustainable careers for job seekers and students.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Career Services Specialist

Forward Services
Green Bay, WI
08.2022 - Current
  • Support and encourage caseload up to 60 clients with weekly and monthly one-on-one virtual meetings to motivate and inspire, identify leads, set & update progress and goals, IEP's, and identify and overcome challenges.
  • Create, monitor, and update Individual Education and Employment Plans (IEP) which includes forecasting barriers and steps to prevent/overcome these barriers for optimal success.
  • Identify community and online skills training programs to enhance client skillset and achieve employment goals.
  • Worked with students and clients to offer guidance on interview techniques, workplace expectations and resume best practices. Fostered relationships with potential employers to assisted employment and internship placement.
  • Track outreach by engagements and enrollment, and participants progress through gained credentials and measurable skills, training, and job placements along with titles and wage information.
  • Maintained knowledge of market and diverse career opportunities.
  • Develop relationships with industry leaders and educational institutions to increase program visibility, access to, and enrollment of WIOA clients. Represent WIOA at Job Fairs and other community outreach events.

Business Development Manager

Pine Hill Pet & Horse Cemetery
Bowie, TX
03.2018 - 10.2019
  • Created Business Plan for $1.2 million dollar company.
  • Enhanced online presence to generated new business by strategic marketing campaign's. Enhanced website platform to accept online payments, inquiries and allow for upselling.
  • Created position descriptions, actively recruited and hired employee and performed job coaching and terminations.
  • Charged with Unemployment Insurance and Department of Labor Issues along with updating Employee Handbook to reflect business practices.
  • Monitored market trends and competitor activities to identify areas of potential opportunity.
  • Boosted marketing, reviewed pricing strategies and expanded distribution channels to increase sales revenue from $1.02M to $1.20M in sales in 1 year

Director

NeighborCARE Regional Community Organizer, Goodwill NCW
Menasha, WI
01.2016 - 08.2018
  • Directed regional nonprofit collaborative consisting of three consortiums and three community foundations to increase ability to age in place by reducing elderly isolation.
  • Oversaw operations and worked closely with organizational leadership and board of directors to guide operational strategy.
  • Identify, develop, and capture grant opportunities while working towards community led sustainability.
  • Responsible for all aspects of employee management including hiring, training & company onboarding; vacation/time off approval, job performance reviews & coaching’s; and terminations.
  • Created program training and outreach materials including program impact video, brochures and speeches.
  • Prepared cash flow projections, cost analysis and monthly, quarterly and annual reports.
  • Checked payroll, vendor payments, and other accounting disbursements for accuracy and compliance and reduce potential overages.
  • Leveraged professional networks and industry knowledge to strengthen program relationships.
  • Created and monitored measures of success, work plans, program, and job descriptions.
  • Drafted and distributed reports to assist board members with critical business decisions.
  • Established departmental performance goals and provided feedback for underperforming areas.

Board Supervisor-Elected Position

Outagamie County Board of Supervisors
Appleton, WI
10.2007 - 04.2016
  • Develop and lobby on positions and policies for Outagamie County.
  • Alerted constituents of government actions and programs with newsletters, personal appearances, individual meetings and social media.
  • Interact with department heads, elected officials, dignitaries and constituents creating solutions regarding County concerns.
  • Participate in annual budget process of over $232 million.
  • Chaired Airport Name Committee to investigate name impact on ridership and regional economy. Presented committees’ findings to Board and media and successfully lobbied for name change to Appleton International Airport.
  • Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
  • Determined campaign strategies, positions on issues and public appearances for four election cycles. Successfully won elections by securing volunteers, fundraising and creating brochures and signs; participating in public debates.

Unemployment Representative

State Of Wisconsin-Department Of Workforce Development
Appleton, WI
10.2010 - 03.2014
  • Monitor employment trends and skill shortages within local labor market area
  • Meet with claimants to review job searches and assess barriers to reemployment; developed effective job plans aligned with goals and skillsets.
  • Presented unemployment requirements to 60+ claimant's in person weekly.
  • Worked with Workforce Development staff to match local employers to skill sets of our employment pool.
  • Network with internal and external agencies assisting claimants with community resources.
  • Review resumes and develop re-employment strategies; hold follow up appointments to ensure compliance of re-employment strategy; deny benefits until compliance was gained.
  • Interview employer & employee to determine benefit eligibility based on State & Federal law & interpretations.
  • Testify in court

Community Involvement

Volunteer Work
Appleton, WI
  • Outagamie County Revolving Fund Committee
  • Establish criteria for loan applicants
  • Interview, approve and monitor all business grant-based loans through Outagamie County, Services-Board of Directors
  • Provide and vote on guidance for a 5-county consortium aimed at poverty reduction
  • Vote on small business loan applications based on risk and sustainable job creation
  • Fox Valley Veterans Council
  • Increased County funding 328% for 2014BYE
  • Created social media site increasing communications and communities awareness of Council
  • Meet with state leaders advocating area veteran concerns
  • UW Fox Valley- Board of Trustees
  • Liaison between UW Fox and the County Board
  • Lobby and voted on building of the Communication Art Center and Engineering Dept
  • Building
  • The Neighborhood Voice- Founder and Chair
  • Created partnerships between neighborhood and local & state leaders promoting neighborhood concerns
  • Grew base of 200+ neighborhood volunteers
  • Established and maintained blog, monthly emails, and Facebook site
  • Planned and hosted monthly meetings for audiences of 300+
  • Spokesperson/Media contact representing The Voice
  • Keep all Aces Xavier Schools Open- Steering Committee
  • Responsible for media coordination of TV, Radio, Newspaper, and internet activity
  • Efforts resulted in $475,000 in fundraising in 5 wks to keep school open

Education

UWGB - Nonprofit Management, General Studies

UW Fox Valley
06.2014 - 05.2017

Associate of Arts - General Education

UW Fox Valley
Menasha
08.2004 - 05.2006

Police Science

Fox Valley Technical College
Appleton, WI
01.1994 - 06.1997

Skills

Skills Development

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Software

Spreadsheets- Excel, Google Sheets

Word Processors-Word and Doc

Presentation- PowerPoint

Virtual Meeting- Teams, Meets, Skype

CSM-Salesforce

Social Media & Data Analytics- Google Analytics for Facebook, Instagram

Project Management- Gantt PRO

Interests- Discord, Reddit, Sims

If it's going to be, it's up to me!

I believe we all posses the power to positively change our lives and the lives of those around us. But it takes action. When we empower ourselves to think and see the world around us through a positive lense, we create small changes in how we respond which creates bigger changes for the future.

Timeline

Career Services Specialist

Forward Services
08.2022 - Current

Business Development Manager

Pine Hill Pet & Horse Cemetery
03.2018 - 10.2019

Director

NeighborCARE Regional Community Organizer, Goodwill NCW
01.2016 - 08.2018

UWGB - Nonprofit Management, General Studies

UW Fox Valley
06.2014 - 05.2017

Unemployment Representative

State Of Wisconsin-Department Of Workforce Development
10.2010 - 03.2014

Board Supervisor-Elected Position

Outagamie County Board of Supervisors
10.2007 - 04.2016

Associate of Arts - General Education

UW Fox Valley
08.2004 - 05.2006

Police Science

Fox Valley Technical College
01.1994 - 06.1997

Community Involvement

Volunteer Work

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