Salary Negotiation
2025-08-29 10:30 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
If you hear the word “negotiation” and start to sweat, you’re not alone. Most employers expect candidates to negotiate… but, according to a survey by GlassDoor, only 46% of people actually do it. By choosing NOT to negotiate, you’re leaving money on the table, which can affect your financial position both now AND in the future.
We want to help you negotiate confidently so you can boost your earning potential, enhance your job satisfaction, and get exactly what you need from your employer. Come join the 46%.
During this webinar, we’ll cover…
Strategies you can use to prepare for your negotiation (even before you apply for the job!)
When, during the hiring process, you’re likely to get asked about salary and how to respond when you do
Scripts, outlines, and examples you can use during your negotiation conversations

Don’t Let Fear Steer the Interview
2025-08-29 11:00 - 12:00
Insightful and interactive webinar on the art of interviewing. We will cover tips of building self-confidence and asking the right questions, and how to seal the deal.

Networking for Job Seekers
2025-08-29 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-09-05 12:00 - 13:00
Join fellow job seekers each Friday to connect, network and learn how to adjust to the new employment landscape and current job market.
During this weekly session you connect with peers and will discuss with your peers how to identify, develop, and implement networking strategies and opportunities.
Attendees share and explore ways to: – meet and engage with potential employers – expand your network and create networking opportunities and – expand job and job search opportunities.
Join the group once or every Friday to learn from and with fellow job seekers, sharing experiences and learning new skills as we navigate the employment landscape – together.
Connect | Share | Learn

Caffeinate Your Career - How Veterans Can Transition Into the Private Sector
2025-09-02 11:00 - 12:00
Attention on deck!
Transitioning from the military into the private sector can be tricky, but there are some tactics you can employ to win your job search.
Join Career Coach Jason Hopper & guest host Veteran Career Specialist Sean Sweeden, CDR when they discuss how veterans can successfully transition into the private workforce sector.
You'll learn how to translate military speak into civilian terms, what training opportunities are available, and what industries are looking to hire vets.
It’s easy to join us live! Go to the JFS Dallas on LinkedIn and click the follow button. Click the tab for events, and find Caffeinate Your Career, and click the “attend” button. You’re done! You’ll be notified at 10:00 CST when we go live and you can chat any questions to us! Or just hang out in the chat and network with others!

Virtual Interview Practice Program
2025-09-02 14:00 - 15:00
Virtual Interview Practice Program (VIP²)
The Virtual Interview Practice Program offers you a realistic practice interview to help you prepare for real job interviews.
In each virtual session, you’ll have an opportunity to answer interview questions that are crafted specifically for your field of interest, and receive feedback on your responses and overall performance.
Appointments are available Tuesdays at 1:00PM CST.
How it works: Our practice interview program is run by a group of hiring professionals who volunteer their time to help increase your interview skills.
You will be assigned an interviewer. You will log on, and will be put with the interviewer into a breakout room.
Your interview will be 30 minutes with 15 minutes of feedback.
The interviewer will send a feedback form, will be emailed to the participant by the end of the week.
You must schedule an appointment with Jason Hopper at jhopper@jfsdallas.org and put VIP2 in the subject line. We'll need a copy of your resume and a job title you want to interview for.

Pressing the Reset Button: Transitioning to the Private Sector Session 1 of 3
2025-09-03 13:00 - 15:00
Pressing the Reset Button: Transitioning to the Private Sector is a three-part workshop series designed to help federal employees successfully navigate the shift to private-sector careers. Whether you’re exploring new opportunities, updating your professional materials, or learning how to network effectively, this series provides the tools, strategies, and confidence needed for a smooth transition.
September 3rd Session 1: Rebrand and Rebuild: Skills, Your Unique Value, and Financial Reset
September 10th: Session 2: Translating Experience: Résumé and LinkedIn Profile Reboot
September 17th: Session 3: Next Step Strategies: Smart Networking and Interviewing
Workshop Length: 2 hours. Please plan to log into Zoom 5 minutes early.
**You wouldn’t be late for an interview, so please, don’t be late for the workshop! To keep the session running smoothly, entry won’t be allowed 15 minutes after the start time. Thanks for your understanding!**

Master Your Job Search
2025-09-04 10:00 - 11:00
Gain actionable insights into effective job search strategies. This workshop covers resume writing, interview preparation, networking, and utilizing online job boards. Learn how to stand out from the competition and achieve your career goals.

Strengthen Your Story Telling in Interviews
2025-09-04 10:00 - 11:30
Having a top-notch resume is not the only requirement you'll need to land THAT interview you’re dying to get.
In today’s evolving marketplace, how you present your career qualifications and brand narrative during an interview is crucial. This session will equip you with the best practices to excel in interviews and position yourself for success.
In this presentation, you'll learn:
– The role of behavioral interviewing: Discover how hiring managers and recruiters use behavioral interviewing, which is based on the concept that past behavior is the best predictor of future performance.
– Identifying key soft skills: Learn how to pinpoint the soft skills and experiences essential for the role you’re applying for and how to incorporate them into your responses.
We’ll also cover:
The STAR Technique: Master this four-step method for effectively answering questions about past work experiences.
Crafting better answers: Explore better ways to respond to the most common interview questions.
Asking Questions with Impact: Learn how to make the most of your opportunity to ask questions, with a new, impactful twist.
Remember – Facts Tell but Stories Sell
There will be 20 minutes of open networking with fellow job seekers after the presentation.

Focusing On Your Path: Identifying Your Personality & Career Types
2025-09-04 13:00 - 14:00
This workshop is intended to help participants identify their personality type and their career type. Careers are determined by an interaction between our personality and the environment – we want jobs with people like us! The goal is to create greater self-understanding, facilitate better career choices, and identify individual career development needs.
Please take the Interest Profiler assessment here: https://www.mynextmove.org/explore/ip. Record your results.
This assessment needs to be completed before the workshop, as individual assessment results will be discussed during our time together.

From Rejections to Offers: Transform Your Job Search Success
2025-09-04 13:00 - 14:15
Join our free live career coaching workshop to master the job application process. Discover why applications get rejected, why you may not be moving forward towards the interview process, and leave feeling empowered in your career journey.
Outcomes:
• Uncover why applications get screened out
• Get insider tips to ace interviews
• Refresh your application strategy
• Learn tools for future interview success
Materials Needed: A good attitude & readiness to learn!

Your New Career
2025-09-04 13:00 - 14:30
Do you feel lost in your career? Maybe you know that you want (or need) to make a change, but you’re unsure what to do next. Maybe you’ve tried to move into a new career, only to discover that it wasn’t the right fit. During this webinar, we’ll walk you through four concrete steps you can take to kickstart your career transition.
Clarifying your values, interests, and skills.
Brainstorming potential new career paths.
Researching and evaluating your options.
Choosing a path to pursue.

ReStart: Ready, Set, Reinvent *This workshop is for Survivors of Domestic Abuse
2025-09-04 14:00 - 15:00
This workshop is for survivors of domestic violence ready to reclaim their identities and empower themselves. Through interactive activities, you will discover your authentic self, envision your future, and set actionable goals. The session also includes helping navigate career paths, leverage transferable skills, and explore options like advancing in your career, starting fresh, or developing a slash career. Facilitators will offer insight into how to capitalize on strengths, overcome challenges, and maximize opportunities in today's evolving job market.

Job Search Strategy
2025-09-08 10:00 - 11:00
Join us for a 1- hour workshop where we will explore strategies to conduct a successful job search that will help you secure employment more effectively. This workshop will cover key information regarding organizing an action plan to move your job search forward. Topics will include how to handle the emotional roller coaster, job choice and self-assessments, identifying potential employers, creating a personal branding statement, networking strategies and more.
All times are Eastern Time Zone!

Expand Your Reach Through Networking
2025-09-08 11:00 - 12:30
Whether you connect in person, online, in groups, at events or through your own personal relationships, doing it professionally and effectively is essential to your job search success.

Microsoft Word Classes - 3-day online course
2025-09-08 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-09-09 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-09-10 11:00 - 13:00
This is a 3-day online course, join via Microsoft Teams to learn more about Microsoft Word from September 8-10, 2025 – 11:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Day 1: Introducing Microsoft Word
Day 2: Layout and Polish
Day 3: From Draft to Document
Join Jewish Family Service of Greater Dallas; register now. When you register you will be registering for all three (3) sessions and will receive a link to join each one the day prior or the morning of the actual event.

Exit Strategy: Navigating Layoffs with Confidence
2025-09-08 13:00 - 14:00
Facing a layoff or feeling insecure about your job? Join JVS Careers for our free webinar, Exit Strategy: Navigating Layoffs with Confidence. Learn how to be prepared and plan your next steps with a practical exit strategy checklist, including benefits, finances, unemployment, and data protection.

Excel Intermediate to Advanced – (Sept 8–10) - Part 1
2025-09-08 14:00 - 16:00
Join Jewish Family Service of Greater Dallas for this Excel Intermediate to Advanced course.
The classes will run for three weeks; however, each grouping will have it's own registration. This one is for September 8-10, 2025 – Part 1.
3-day online course, join via Microsoft Teams. Just 2 hours a day!
Day 1 (Sept 8) – Excel Essentials Refresher & Productivity Tools
Day 2 (Sept 9) – Data Handling & Accuracy
Day 3 (Sept 10) – Intermediate Formulas & Efficiency Tricks
This webinar is Part 1 of a 3-week Advanced Microsoft Excel series. If you’d like to register for Parts 2 and 3, you can view the details on the calendar and register there for the others. Attendance at all three parts is not required, but it is recommended

Leveraging LinkedIn for Job Seekers
2025-09-09 10:00 - 11:00
Designed for infrequent or casual users of LinkedIn, this presentation offers best practices and strategies for getting noticed by recruiters and hiring managers. It will also include basic instructions for optimizing your LinkedIn profile to advance your search for employment.

Caffeinate Your Career - How Labor Market Information Affects Your Job Search
2025-09-09 11:00 - 12:00
When it comes to your job search, you need to know the facts.
Labor market data can help you prepare your job search process.
Join Career Coach Jason Hopper and guest host Veteran Career Specialist Sean Sweeden, CDR when they discuss how labor market information can affect your job search.
You will learn how to determine salary expectations, how data shows job market competition, and how to use the data to determine a long term career.
It’s easy to join us live! Go to the JFS Dallas home page on LinkedIn, and click the follow button. Click the tab for events, and find Caffeinate Your Career, and click the “attend” button. You’re done! You’ll be notified at 10:00 CST, when we go live and you can chat any questions to us! Or just hang out in the chat and network with others!

Resume and Cover Letter Workshop
2025-09-09 11:00 - 12:30
Learn how to effectively create or revise two of the fundamental tools for conducting a job search in the current market.

Job Search Piece by Piece
2025-09-09 13:00 - 14:00
At times the job search may make you feel like you're being pulled in all different directions. There are many tasks demanding your attention. Which one should be your priority. And how do all the pieces fit together?

Virtual Interview Practice Program
2025-09-09 14:00 - 15:00
Virtual Interview Practice Program (VIP²)
The Virtual Interview Practice Program offers you a realistic practice interview to help you prepare for real job interviews.
In each virtual session, you’ll have an opportunity to answer interview questions that are crafted specifically for your field of interest, and receive feedback on your responses and overall performance.
Appointments are available Tuesdays at 2:00PM EDT.
How it works: Our practice interview program is run by a group of hiring professionals who volunteer their time to help increase your interview skills.
You will be assigned an interviewer. You will log on, and will be put with the interviewer into a breakout room.
Your interview will be 30 minutes with 15 minutes of feedback.
The interviewer will send a feedback form, will be emailed to the participant by the end of the week.
You must schedule an appointment with Jason Hopper at jhopper@jfsdallas.org and put VIP2 in the subject line. We’ll need a copy of your resume and a job title you want to interview for.

Excel Intermediate to Advanced – (Sept 8–10) - Part 2
2025-09-09 14:00 - 16:00

Career Transitions and the Mature Worker
2025-09-09 17:00 - 18:30
Career Transitions and the Mature Worker
September 9 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
A JFCS Career Services Event:
Learn to Navigate the landscape of today’s ever changing workforce. Regardless if you are returning to work, changing careers, or pursuing a passion there are many ways you can position yourself to be just what the employer needs. Highlight your strengths and attributes to maximize your efforts towards a successful career.
Presented by Lisa Lenhart – llenhart@jfcspgh.org
Registration closes at 5:00 PM the BUSINESS DAY PRIOR to this workshop. Registrations after the deadline will not be accepted.
To cancel a registration, please contact Gretchen Young at gyoung@jfcspgh.org, 24 hours in advance.
YOU WILL BE EMAILED A ZOOM LINK UPON REGISTRATION – PLEASE REMEMBER TO SAVE IT IN YOUR CALENDAR.

I Just Got Laid Off, Why Does It Feel Like I Was Fired?
2025-09-09 18:30 - 19:30
Losing a job can feel overwhelming, personal, and deeply emotional. Even when layoffs are beyond your control, the impact can feel the same as being fired. This workshop is designed to help you process those emotions and rebuild your confidence as you take the next steps in your career.
In this session, you’ll learn how to:
Understand the initial shock and why it feels so personal
Find healthy ways to cope with the loss
Recognize the opportunities that can come from job loss
Navigate today’s job market with clarity and confidence
Prepare (physically, emotionally, and mentally) for interviews
Virtual Option: Can’t make it in person? You can also join this workshop via Microsoft Teams!
About the presenter:
Sandi Knight is an Executive and Career Coach with over 35 years of experience in Human Resources at the executive level. She is a certified coach, having earned her ACC credential from the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD).
Driven by a deep passion to inspire and make a difference, Sandi lives by the motto H.elping O.ne P.erson E.veryday (HOPE).
She is a dedicated supporter of Jewish Family Service (JFS), where she volunteers in both the food bank and the Career Center. Additionally, Sandi serves as an usher at the AT&T Performing Arts Center, combining her love for the arts with community involvement. She is also a Pickle Ball player like millions of other people
Above all, her greatest joy comes from being a grandmother to her two beloved grandchildren, ages 5 and 1.

Job Search with a Disability
2025-09-10 11:00 - 12:00
A job search for job seekers with disabilities can present different challenges and questions that may not come up for others. Learn how to have a productive job search, answer questions, how and when to disclose a disability, and what are reasonable accommodations. This presentation is for individuals with a disability, parents/caregivers, and professionals helping those with disabilities.

Silver Fox Networking Workshop for Job Seekers 50+
2025-09-10 11:00 - 12:00
Silver Fox is a networking workshop designed to support older adults in finding meaningful employment navigating today's job market and learning how to combat ageism. Please click the “Register” button to join us.
