Outplacement & Career Counseling Overview
Winning at Job Hunting Manual - 1998
Public Workshop Winning at Job Hunting Flyer - call for latest dates.
Articles by and about Mel's approach
"Brush up schmoozing’ skills to get job", News-Star/ A Lerner Newspaper, April 16-17, 1991
"The Do’s and Don’t’s of Career Switching", Careers, The Jewish Professional, April/May 1991.
"The ideal job is possible", by Carol Kleiman, Career Editor, Chicago Tribune, April 3, 1991
"Job Hunters Learn Aggressiveness Pays in Tight Employment Market: Workshop Motivates People Out of a Passive Posture During job Search", JOBS, vol. 1, No. 28, March 27, 1991
"Controlling the Interview Situation by Asking the Right Questions" JOBS, Vol. 1, No. 18, January 16, 1991
"Selling Yourself to an Interviewer", by Mel Schnapper, JOBS, January 9, 1991
"Use trade show contacts to widen your job hunt", by Joyce Lain Kennedy, Chicago Sun Times, January 2, 1991.
" Networking Your Way to a Better Job" by M. Schnapper, Careers, April, 1991
"Hunting for a Significant Other" - An analogy between job and mate hunting.1990.
"Looking for a Job? Sell Yourself at Trade Shows", Crains Chicago Business, April 13, 1987
"How to avoid bad job choice? Check, check, check" by Carole Carmichael, Careers Editor, Chicago Tribune, May 10, 1982
Reference Check Questions - How will you previous employers answer them?
How to Get Published - I’ve never had an article rejected.
Leadership roles - The best ones as a job-hunter.
Contractual and Hourly Relationships for My Services:
Corporate Outplacement Contract
Individual Job Hunting Contract
Contrast Between Hourly and Contractual
Previous Workshops and Sponsors:
"Game plan for a new job", River North News, Vol. 5, Issue 18, Jan. 15, 1991.
Getting that overseas job - Sponsored by Learning Annex, Discovery Center, 1990-93
Career development skills for international managers, Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry, World Trade Division, 1995
"Winning at Job Hunting" Society for Human Resources Professionals, May, 89(Hard copy only)
Winning at Job Hunting video tape reviews:
"Job hunting It's a Schnap!, how to guru" Premier, June, 1991.
Sales and Marketing Management, April, 1992
Video Insider, 12/2/91
Video Librarian, November, 1991
Success Magazine, September, 1991.
Library Journal, September 1,1991
Booklist, July, 1991
Training Today, CCASTD, 6/91
Mel's Resumes
