MSESP Grantee WebinarFebruary 5, 2013

Agenda

Record WebinarWelcomeAdministrative UpdatesGreen Job Search: BlueGreen Alliance FoundationJob Placement/Retention Follow-upsParticipant/Outcome Projection UpdatesRAD UpdateGrantee UpdatesNext Meeting

Administrative Updates• Re-allocation of MSESP funds• Any funds that will not be spent???

• Let us know by February 15 – will be monitoring spending very closely

• Supplement to Final MSESP Quarterly Narrative Report – Reminder

• Regional meetings and statewide capstone event

• Project Summaries (http://www.mnrem.com/projects2.php )

• Video project (see next slide)

Video Project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8EnhnPE9vk&list=UU-Tn9soDxGbNGErD_4N86Og&index=2

Green Job Search

Jerome BalsimoBlueGreen Alliance Foundation

Green Job Search Strategies Workshop

FACT: An Average of 250 Resumes Are Submitted For Every Job Opening!The BlueGreen Alliance Foundation’s Green Job Search Strategies Workshop teaches job

seekers how they can use their ‘green skills training’ to stand out from other job applicants, allowing them to get themselves out of the resume pile and into their perfect job.

This one-day, six-hour workshop covers:• Green Jobs- What Are They?• Best Green Job Prospects and Career Alternatives• What Do Solid Waste, Energy Use and Water Reductions Mean to Employers?• The Importance of Branding• How to answer the question, “Tell me about yourself?”• Job Search Strategies• Interview Techniques

For more information, or to schedule a class, contact:Jerome Balsimo at 612-466-4515 or jeromeb@bgafoundation.org.

NOTE: Trainer will travel, please call to coordinate and schedule a class.

Job Placement/Retention Follow-ups

• WDI will be working with us to help contact participants

• Have started with initial requests• Still developing process• Send details of those you would like

help with

Participant UpdatePlan Total Actual 1/28/13

Participants Enrolled 1495 1943

Participants Completed 1196 1460

# Receiving Credentials 1076 1302

Participants Placed/Incumbent Workers Retained Jobs

897 700/612

# Retaining Employment 2 qtrs

718 480

Grantee Expenditures $4,792,524 (awarded)

$3,722,139 (January expenditures)

January 28, 2013

RAD Updates

o DOL Report due next weeko ALL RAD Updates for last quarter

completed by February 8 (Friday)

Grantee Updates

Let us know what is happening with your MSESP project

Next Grantee WebinarTuesday, March 5, 2013

10:00 AM

Presenter: SW MN PIC

(Get Into Energy Career Coaching)