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Mature
Workers Workshop
Work at Home Scams
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Illinois Skills Match Registration
Career One Stop
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Helpful Web Addresses
Employer Fridays
Where the Jobs are
Older Workers
MATURE
WORKER WORKSHOP
'BABY BOOMERS BOUNCE BACK'
This
message is for all veterans 50 or over who are seeking employment.
The
Springfield IDES Vet staff will conduct a workshop for mature
individuals(50 and over) in our conference room on Thursday,
July 26th, from 9:00 AM thru 11:00 AM. The workshop will cover
information on how to overcome age discrimination, how to sell
your skills to a company, interview techniques, questions to
ask, job search plans, the importance of computer skills, businesses
that are looking for mature employees and more.
We
will also have guest speakers from: The East Springfield Learning
Center, Area Agency on Aging and Express Personnel, who will
talk about training programs, services and positions available.
If
you are 50 or over please plan to attend this workshop, and
bring a friend.
WORK
AT HOME SCAMS |
|
"Last
month I made $8,000 working at home right from my own computer."
How often have you heard that claim on TV? Work at home schemes
and scams are on the TV and the internet every day. If they
were real, everyone would be rich and everyone would work from
home. Well, the only ones who get rich are the people who run
the scams. Everyone else is a victim who loses money.
Here
is a list of the most common scams the ëwork at home' companies
use.
1. Assembly Work at Home - You purchase the materials, assemble
the products and then attempt to sell them back to the company,
but they never meet their standards, and you are left holding
the goods.
2. Chain Letters - All you need to do is send us $$$ and
we will sent you a mailing list and show you how the $$$ will
flow in to you. You're out your money and receive nothing in
return.
3. Envelop Stuffing - You answer the ad and in return receive
promotional material asking for money for advertizing, postage,
envelops and printing.
4. Multi level Marketing (The Pyramid Scheme) You pay a
high price for a product/service, then recruit others to work
for you selling the same product/service, or buy the same product
from you. Eventually the people at the bottom are stuck because
the market is saturated and/or they cannot sell the product
or recruit others.
5. Process Medical Claims - You must pay up front expenses
for computer software & training programs, then you find
out there is a delay in starting your job, the central computer
is down, there are mistakes in your work and you must take the
training again, then the job never materializes.
RESULTS - BYE BYE MONEY, NO INCOME! |
