Tips and Ideas: Company Web Site Job Listing and Financial Help 211 Telephone United Way System
Hello everyone, this week’s blog will cover two topics that I like to describe. The two ideas are:
- The Company Web site job listing
- Financial Help 211 Telephone United Way System
The Company Web site job listing
You will find job listings on the Internet in many places. Here are some advantages of finding job positions on a company website.
More Detailed Job Description
First, you may sometimes have a job position in several locations on the Internet. Occasionally, you may find more details about a job position from the company’s website than other locations where the job is located.
Find other similar job opportunities.
Second, check out the company’s website for other job positions. You may have discovered a job position that interests you from a job board (like Indeed, LinkedIn, and so on). You then apply for the job. Examine the company of the job position you just applied for. You then can go to that company’s web page to look for their job listings. You may find more job positions in the field you are looking for by looking at the company’s website. For example, you may find a trainer’s job position interesting on Indeed.com. You then apply for the job position. You will notice the company in that job position. Go to the company’s webpage listed on the job position. You may find other trainer job positions found on that company’s website.
United Way 211 Telephone System
(For those in the United States and Canada)
Sometimes when you are job searching, you may experience difficulties. You may need resources to help you with financial, career help, and other needs while job searching. A social service system that may help you is the United Way 211 telephone system. You can access the 211 telephone system simply by typing “2-1-1” on your telephone. You can talk to a person who can assist you in matching your needs with your local community’s local social service resources.
Internet resources that give more details are:
- 211 telephone United Way system (“Get Connected, Get Help”)
https://www.211.org/
- https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/dial-211-essential-community-services
FCC (Federal Communications Commission) gives information on the 211-telephone United Way service. The material on the FCC webpage is Federal United States Government information. The information is in the public domain and therefore is not copyrighted. (Details found on https://www.usa.gov/government-works).
As a service to our readers (or listeners who are listening to this information), I would like to duplicate two paragraphs of information.
From the Federal Communications Commission web page (it is in italic):
Dial 211 for Essential Community Services
In many states, dialing “211” provides individuals and families in need with a shortcut through what can be a bewildering maze of health and human service agency phone numbers. By simply dialing 211, those in need of assistance can be referred, and sometimes connected, to appropriate agencies and community organizations.
Dialing 211 helps direct callers to services for, among others, the elderly, the disabled, those who do not speak English, those with a personal crisis, those with limited reading skills, and those who are new to their communities.
211 is available to approximately 309 million people, which is 94.6 percent of the total U.S. population. 211 covers all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. To find out whether 211 services are offered in your area and to obtain more information, visit 211.org.
How 211 Works
211 works a bit like 911. Calls to 211 are routed by the local telephone company to a local or regional calling center. The 211 center’s referral specialists receive requests from callers, access databases of resources available from private and public health and human service agencies, match the callers’ needs to available resources, and link or refer them directly to an agency or organization that can help.
Types of Referrals Offered by 211
- Basic Human Needs Resources – including food and clothing banks, shelters, rent assistance, and utility assistance.
- Physical and Mental Health Resources– including health insurance programs, Medicaid and Medicare, maternal health resources, health insurance programs for children, medical information lines, crisis intervention services, support groups, counseling, and drug and alcohol intervention and rehabilitation.
- Work Support – including financial assistance, job training, transportation assistance and education programs.
- Access to Services in Non-English Languages– including language translation and interpretation services to help non-English-speaking people find public resources (Foreign language services vary by location.)
- Support for Older Americans and Persons with Disabilities – including adult daycare, community meals, respite care, home health care, transportation and homemaker services.
- Children, Youth, and Family Support– including child care, after-school programs, educational programs for low-income families, family resource centers, summer camps and recreation programs, mentoring, tutoring, and protective services.
- Suicide Prevention – referral to suicide prevention help organizations. Callers can also dial the following National Suicide Prevention Hotline numbers which are operated by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:
- 1-800-273-TALK (1-800-273-8255)
- 1-800-SUICIDE (1-800-784-2433)
- 1-888-SUICIDE (1-888-784-2433)
- 1-877-SUICIDE (1-877-784-2432) (Spanish)
Those who wish to donate time or money to community help organizations can also do so by dialing 211.”
(From https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/dial-211-essential-community-services)
You may benefit from looking at the company job listings for those companies you are interested in obtaining employment from. Benefits could include having a more detailed job description and finding other similar job positions in your career field. And if you are having financial difficulties, consider the 211 United Way telephone system that may connect you with local community resources to help you with your financial and career journey needs.