Soft Skills Training: A Workbook to Develop Skills for Employment

I was hired by a major university to teach recently released offenders how to become employed. I walked into my first class intending to follow the lead of all the other job training programs in the city which was teaching the students to properly fill out applications write resumes facilitate mock interviews and locate employment opportunities. After the first couple of classes most of the students were either not paying attention or sleeping. I quickly realized my presentation needed to be interesting challenging beneficial and actually guide the participants on how to remain employed. However I was unable to find any published material for teaching new hires the soft skills necessary to keep a job. This workbook is a compilation of the soft skills class material I have developed over an eighteen year period. I have used this material with great success and have taught soft skills in schools inner-city church programs nonprofits and government funded job training programs. It is a un