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**Hureco Maverick’s Candidate Fitness™ Boot-Camp**

Hureco Maverick, Inc. offers maximum value, flexibility and convenience when it comes to your personal or organization’s training needs. We are uniquely suited to partner with individuals and workforce development organizations across the country to provide on-site and webinar on-your-schedule training that is customized to specifically target each participant group.

Our proven content, flexibility, and expansive, professional staff can offer the training and education that will allow each participant the opportunity to acquire jobseeker skills and develop their careers. Our Candidate Fitness™ Boot-Camp is specifically designed to assist participants who are either new to the workforce, have been unemployed or laid-off, underemployed, transitioning into new career arenas, facing biases and/or discrimination or are seeking promotion by seeking a new employer. Each workshop session provides participants with valuable insight on today’s job market. Our program offers fundamental and advanced skills required of all job applicants and can be selected à la carte for the participant’s or organization’s needs.

The courses can be customized to fit the particular candidate demographic to assist in overcoming the obstacles that they face in finding suitable employment that is a match for their skills, expertise and experiences.

Boot-Camp Courses:

Fundamentals of Resume Writing

A two-day course that teaches fundamental tips and techniques for writing a well-designed and effective resume:

Understanding what a resume is/the goal
Types of resumes
The best information to include/what not to include
How to present what the employer needs to know
Formatting essentials for a resume to be read
Preparing your resume – what main categories to cover
Writing your resume – write, revise and re-write
Proofreading – an often overlooked fundamental

Advanced Resume Writing

A two-day advanced course that teaches the psychology and technology for writing a well-designed and effective resume:

The questions every resume must answer
Review of job descriptions
The psychology of quantity and measurements of your success
Writing a Search Engine Optimized resume
Using Word Cloud technology to optimize relevant matches
Assessing a completed resume – the 30-45 second glance, what do you see?
The Scoop and the Rules: Look at the pretty colors, chronological or most relevant first, how many pages, etc.

Job Search Essentials

A two-day course chock full of job search information and strategy, techniques for managing your time and energy and practical, demonstrative advice on where to and how to search:

Action! – organizing and planning a job search
Networking and relationship building
Purposeful targeting of employers
Cover letters only matter when…
Faithful follow-up and record keeping
The benefits of working with recruiters
The Internet and you – where to search?
Using social media & networking sites to conduct a search

Fundamental Interviewing Skills

A one-day course that provides a foundation in strategy, communication skills, professional etiquette and how to learn about your prospective employer:

Preparing for the interview
Anticipating interview questions and developing great responses
Developing pertinent questions
Understanding the steps of the interview process
Reading body language and tone of voice
Selling your knowledge, skill and can-do attitude
Ending on a positive note
One-on-one role-plays between participants to practice skills using an interviewing guide
Follow-up and follow-through

Advanced Interviewing Skills

A one-day advanced course that provides recruiter and hiring manager insights into the nuances of candidate evaluation and selection:

Learning how to respond to situational interview questions, including the “stress” and “behavioral” interview techniques
Linking behavior responses to competency and past performance
How to effectively use the STAR technique
How to prepare to overcome objections and answer difficult questions (addressing gaps in resume, lay-offs, fired from last position, career change, age & cultural discrimination, gender biases, positioning your areas of opportunity, etc.)
Identify motivators of the interviewer
High performance, clarity and confidence techniques
Asking for the job

Dress for Success

A one-day course that provides all the tools necessary to present a professional image at a first meeting and maintain a professional presence over time:

Demonstrate understanding of the key elements of professionalism in appearance, dress and behavior
Apply the principles of effective nonverbal communication
Conduct yourself with social savvy and good business etiquette
Show professionalism in grooming, clothing, footwear and accessories
Understand the principles and importance of “small talk”
The psychology of color – wardrobe planning

Mock Interviews

This session focuses on practicing interviewing skills, learning by doing and building confidence. Several recruiters/trainers conduct mock interviews. Participants are asked to come prepared to interview as if it were the “real thing”:

Participants practice completing applications for employment
30 to 45 minute interviews are conducted with each participant
Individual feedback is given to each participant using a form that they keep for their records
Facilitated open discussion of individual situations and interviewing experiences to discover obstacles and how to overcome them
Group brainstorming to find alternative approaches
Participant leaves with a better understanding of what went well and what areas require improvement
Individual interviews may be recorded and shared with the participants for performance improvement

It’s time to get fit, call us today for our schedule of courses and to learn more!

“I had a great experience working with Hureco Maverick. I own two small businesses that have been running like ‘mom and pop’ shops. They helped me create a solid foundation of employee policies, procedures and manuals making my small business operate like a large corporation. I would recommend Hureco Maverick for any small business that is trying to take their business to the next level. They are smart, professional and a pleasure to work with.”

Alexis Ufland
“Hureco Maverick’s consultants are experts, very sincere in their approach to organizational development and recruitment. I found the principals and the consultants to be a true pleasure to work with.”

Mark Silver
“Hureco Maverick helped shape our organizational culture to enhance communication between divisions which built morale amongst long-term employees. They were instrumental in the creation of our performance management process and recruiting plan. We now have a very well defined HR structure in areas where we needed improvement and are operating with newly implemented systems for employee relations.

Janine Pierre
“It was impressive the level and depth of knowledge of your nonprofit HR consultants. They helped our office to identify what areas we needed additional help with. The design of the training program was excellent and the delivery superb, all within our budget. Thanks for working with us to make it happen!”

Claire Wright
“Thank you for the employee engagement workshop you provided for the CUNY COPE Program staff rally. Your workshop was very entertaining and informative, and based on their level of participation as well as their evaluations, was well-received by the audience of staff of varying levels including administrative support, employment specialists, case managers, counselors and directors representing 9 campuses and our central office.”

Deborah Douglass
“Your presentation was very well organized and very targeted to the audience. You, I know, heard some of the audience comments at the end of the presentation. I hope we can call on Hureco Maverick again for this or another topic in our next cycle of programs. On behalf of our committee, thanks so much for delivering your Candidate Fitness Boot Camp™ program for us.”

Constance W. Klages