FCWS-Jeopardy

American Job Centers (AJC)

100

True of False: Everyone who gets laid off receives Unemployment Insurance (UI).

False

200

Who funds AJC’s?

What is the US Department of Labor (ETA)

300

What are 3 basic workshops that are on the calendar this month (excluding Resume Review and Navigating to Success)?

Interview to Success

Expungement Workshop

Federal Job Workshop

Career Decision Making

Resea/ROW

400

If a customer feels like they are being discriminated against what can they do and who can they contact?

Bob Gunter and/or EEO Representative

500

What are 5 services AJC’s provide? 

Training services, career counseling, practice interview, labor market assistance, recruitment events, referrals to community services, resource room, employment workshops, and UI info.

Individualized Services

100

What does ATS stand for?

Applicant Tracking System

200

When does follow-up start?

When active case management has ended/ closure begins.

300

What is the most successful way to get a job?

Networking

400

Name 4 supportive services.

Childcare

Transportation

Labs/ Exams/ Exam fees

Mental Health

Clothing/ Work Attire

Books and materials

Housing assistance

500

List 5 Best Practices for case management?

• Build rapport to create engagement
• Use high touch with frequent interactions during the initial stage of case management.
• Help the customer assess his/her own situation. Is he/she in a job/career he/she can excel? Is he/she utilizing his/her skills and talents to be successful?
•  Identify in the assessment process the motivator that shall make the participant strive for change. This is individualistic and is based on what the participant has said or done.

  Focus on strengths and accomplishments. Then identify the barriers.

 Use SAR method & Career Thought Leaders Worksheet:

 Situation Action Results

•  Prove IT – Skills and behavioral assessments
•  CAPS, COPS, COPES
•  Self-Directed Search (SDS)
•  “Crucial Conversations” When Necessary:
•  S:  Share facts T:  Tell the story A: Ask for open dialogue T: Talk tentatively (not accusatory) E: Encourage testing
• Speak in a way that maximizes candor while minimizing defensiveness.
• Strike a balance between confidence and humility.

WIOA

100

What supersedes the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act?

Workforce Innovation Act (WIA) 1998

200

What quarters are performance measured after exit?

2nd and 4th quarters

300

What are the main criteria to be eligible for individualized services?

18 years of age or older;

U.S. citizen or non-citizen authorized to work in the U.S.; and

Meet Military Selective Service registration, if applicable.

400

What are the main criteria to be eligible for individualized services?

First Priority-Vets and eligible spouses who are low income.

2nd-Individuals who meet target population criteria (including vets).

3rd- Eligible spouses who did not meet 1st priority.

4th-Everyone

500

What are 2 key differences between WIA and WIOA?

Increases the focus on serving the most vulnerable workers.

Expands education and training.

Helps disadvantaged and unemployed adults and youth earn while they learn.

Aligns planning and accountability policies across core problems.

Workforce Investment Boards (WIBS): The number of required members has been reduced.

State and Local Plans: Each state must have a single, unified state plan covering all programs under the bill and local plans must be aligned with the State Plan.

Performance Metrics: There is now a single set of common measures to be used across all core programs.

One-Stop Job Centers: State boards are required to establish criteria for local boards to assess the effectiveness and accessibility of Job Centers every three years.

Sequence of Services: Policy guidance from the US DOL eliminating “sequence of service” is officially codified. Individuals are not required to receive career services prior to receiving training services.

State-Wide Set Aside: Restores the state-wide set-aside to 15 percent.

Funding Levels: Funding levels for each fiscal year (FY 2015-2020) are set and increase incrementally so they are eventually on-par with funding levels established before the sequester.

Data and performance systems: All programs are accountable for the same core metrics.

Eligibility

100

An individual’s family income needs to be below what percentage to be supported by training funds?

200%

200

You need to be between what ages to be eligible for youth services?

16-24 depending on having more than one barriers and being an in-school or out-of-school youth

300

What are 3 documents to verify citizenship?

Birth certificate and/or Baptismal Certificate (with place of birth)

Voter Registration card with current address

Current US Passport

Alien Registration Card (USCIS Forms I-551, I-94, I-94A, I-197, I-179, I-766)

400

Men born after what date are required to register for selective services?

Men born on or after January 1, 1960 are required to register with Selective Service within 30 days of their 18th birthday (i.e. 30 days before or 30 days after their birthday.)

500

What are the conditions to be considered a Dislocated Worker (WD)?

Conditions A

Has been terminated or laid off, or has received a notice of termination or layoff, from employment; and

Is eligible for or has exhausted entitlement to unemployment compensation; or

Has been employed for a duration sufficient to demonstrate an attachment to the workforce (two pay periods or one month, whichever is less), but is not eligible for unemployment compensation due to insufficient earnings or having performed services for an employer that were not covered under a State unemployment compensation law; and

Is unlikely to return to a previous industry or occupation;

Conditions B

Has been terminated or laid off, or has received a notice of termination or layoff, from employment as a result of any permanent closure of, or any substantial layoff at, a plant, facility, or enterprise;

• Is employed at a facility at which the employer has made a general announcement that such facility will close within 180 days; or
• For purposes of eligibility to receive services other than training services described in section 134(c)(3), career services described in section 134(c)(2)(A)(xii), or supportive services, is employed at a facility at which the employer has made a general announcement that such facility will close;
• Condition C
• Was self-employed (including employment as a farmer, a rancher, or a fisherman) but is unemployed as a result of general economic conditions in the community in which the individual resides or because of natural disasters; or
• Condition D
  Is a displaced homemaker; or
  
  
• Condition E
• Is the spouse of a member of the Armed Forces on active duty (as defined in section 101(d)(1) of title 10, United States Code), and who has experienced a loss of employment as a direct result of relocation to accommodate a permanent change in duty station of such member; or
• Is the spouse of a member of the Armed Forces on active duty and who is unemployed or underemployed and is experiencing difficulty in obtaining or upgrading employment?

Training

100

This is considered a hire-first program.

On the Job Training (OJT)

200

Training funds may be available if what 2 criteria are met?

• Under WIOA regulations (WIOA sec. 134(c)(3)(A), training services may be made available to employed and unemployed adults and dislocated workers who, among other criteria, are:
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• Unlikely or unable to obtain or retain employment that leads to economic self-sufficiency or wages comparable to or higher than wages from previous employment through career services, and
• Are in need of training services to obtain or retain employment leading to economic self-sufficiency or wages comparable to or higher than wages from previous employment.

300

What are 2 targeted populations for training based on our local plan?

Incumbent workers

Veterans

Ex-offenders

400

What are 2 criteria items that a customer needs to be considered for an OJT opportunity?

OJT contracts may be provided for eligible employed workers when:

2.3.1   The employee is not earning a self-sufficient wage,

2.3.2   All other requirements of the program are met, and

2.3.3   The OJT relates to the introduction of new technologies, introduction to new production or service procedures, upgrading to new jobs that require additional skills, workplace literacy, or other appropriate purposes identified.

2.3.4   OJT candidate must be lacking some skill/skills necessary to perform the job to a level of satisfaction that the employer needs.

2.3.5   OJT candidate would otherwise not be considered for the job without an OJT program.

2.3.6   A job opening must exist.

2.3.7   OJT candidate interviews for the position as every other applicant would.

2.3.8   OJT candidate is hired as a regular employee.

500

What are the main criteria to be considered a transitional work experience?

• Have been unemployed for 13 weeks or longer;
• Unemployed at least 26 of the of the past 52 weeks; or
• Have held three or more jobs in the past 52 weeks and are currently unemployed.
• Is currently employed in part-time or short term positions outside of their career pathway as a way to meet basic sustainability (and meets local self-sufficiency criteria accessing training funds)