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Fresh Start: An On-The-Job Survival Guide

Purpose of This Guidebook

This guidebook will assist you in managing your employment experience and learning about your work environment. Its tools, tips, and strategies will help you adapt, manage your work performance, and begin to think about job and career advancement. Fresh Start will help you recognize the importance of being accountable for your performance and for the results you achieve. Accountability requires understanding what is expected and then developing the necessary skills and behaviors to do what is expected. This guidebook will help you understand that you are accountable for the quality and quantity of your work and the way you do your work. Remember, poor results are hard to hide.


Investing in Success

A supervisor's Guidebook for Supporting and Retaining New Workforce Entrants in Today's Multicultural Workforce

This book outlines methods for integrating entry-level workers into the workplace through a strong assimilation process. The assimilation process is designed to help them adjust to the organization's culture, understand job expectations, and build their skills. It also provides guidance in helping new employees develop successful work relationships and build basic business literacy, while providing continuous performance support.


Building Cultural Competence

This manual aims to assist workforce development professionals in the assessment and management of cultural competence within their programs. It also aims to aid them assessing prospective employers to ensure effective job-placement relationships and comfortable environments where employees can best succeed.

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Did You Know?

In 2005, black women, with an incarceration rate of 156 per 100,000 persons, were more than twice as likely as Latina women and three times as likely as white women to be in prison. About 70 percent of the women in prison—many of whom were imprisoned for drug violations—have children under the age of eighteen. Learn more