Path To A Job: New Tools For Those Offering Job Search Assistance

Job Search Assistance for the Public Workforce System

Higher Wages and Jobs That Last, With the Staff You Already Have

We introduce structure and innovation into the sessions you already hold, bringing the key learning of the job search workshop back one-on-one.

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Job Instability, Measured

Job center clients per 100, Program Year 2024

Working at six monthsWorking at six and twelve monthsSame industry at six and twelve
Homeless35 → 18 → 9
WIOA, no training45 → 27 → 17
UI claimants (RESEA)35 → 18 → 10
White collar, AI layoffs42 → 27 → 19

The federal measure counts the first number. Nobody counts the rest.

Low job stability is not inevitable.

The Problem

Job Instability: The Hidden Villain

It passes the federal measures, so no one sees it, and it shows up in every program and every state. Each population below has its moment now.

Homelessness

35 → 18 → 9

in 100: working at six months, at six and twelve, and in the same industry

Few homeless people ever reach a job center, and most who find work lose it.

The moment: HUD now scores Continuums of Care on employment income.

Addressing Homelessness Through Steady Employment

WIOA, No Training

45 → 27 → 17

in 100: working at six months, at six and twelve, and in the same industry

Most Adult and Dislocated Worker clients never receive training. Their only service is career services.

The moment: A training mandate with flat funding, while over $1.3 billion goes unspent each year.

WIOA Adult's Forgotten Client

RESEA, UI Claimants

35 → 18 → 10

in 100: working at six months, at six and twelve, and in the same industry

More than a quarter of the unemployed have been looking six months or longer.

The moment: Every UI claimant is now RESEA eligible, and states are urged to serve more.

Low Job Service Outcomes Are Not Inevitable

White Collar, AI Layoffs

42 → 27 → 19

in 100: working at six months, at six and twelve, and in the same industry

Top earners in their field get back about half their old wage.

The moment: AI layoffs reach professional work, and profiling looks at industry, not occupation.

Addressing Large-Scale White-Collar Displacement

Program Year 2024 (July 2024 to June 2025) job center exiters, WIOA public-use file.

The Cause and the Answer

This Isn't Mismanagement. It's the Staff:Client Model.

The same drop-off shows up in every program and every state. The half-day job search workshop, where people made informed career choices and learned to target their search for stability, is gone and isn't coming back. Its lessons matter more today than ever.

What the workshop did

Informed Career Decisions

Clients weighed their options with real information about pay, openings and fit, then chose a target they could win and keep. Today, a cursory target selection traps the most vulnerable clients in their prior occupation, often one that was never their best choice.

What the workshop did

Persuasive Interviewing

Clients learned to present their skills, productivity and character as the answer to the employer's needs, and practiced until it came naturally.

What the workshop did

A Targeted Job Search

Clients learned to aim at the employers and industries where their experience counts, and to make their case. That is how searches end in jobs that last.

Coherent one-on-one staff and client sessions bring together informed career decisions, persuasive interviewing and a targeted job search, within the sessions you already hold. Each session gives staff a structure, and clients make their own decisions and run their own search, modeled on what worked for more than a million prior clients like them.

23 million+

client outcomes in the National Workforce Outcomes File (NWOF)

1 million+

prior clients like them, low income or white collar

No new staff

within the sessions you already hold

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