Would you be surprised to learn that Latina women earn an average of only 60 percent of men’s wages? Use this quiz in an orientation or information session to prompt awareness about the need for women to have access to jobs in traditionally higher paid, male-dominated blue-collar careers
Use this tool to create a blueprint and timeline for your program’s outreach, recruitment, and assessment strategy. The template provides a single resource to document and track multiple program goals and objectives, responsible staff, activities, measurable outcomes, and time spent on each activity.
This tool is part of The Pink to Green Toolkit: Adding a Gender Lens to Green Jobs Training Programs, created by Wider Opportunities for Women for the GreenWays initiative. All tools are available online at: http://greenways.jff.org/pinktogreen
Use this tool to identify questions and evaluation criteria that assess a candidate’s fit for your training program and case management needs. These sample questions apply a gender lens to assessment in order to get beyond stereotypes, identify transferable skills, and determine how to best serve incoming participants.
The two checklists in this tool provide an overview of the critical topics in preparing program participants in green jobs training programs to be “work ready” when they graduate.
Use this tool for envisioning and developing your organization’s approach to integrating work readiness into your occupational training design.
Being a competitive candidate for the limited number of openings for a construction trade apprenticeship program may require more than meeting requirements, submitting a timely application, and scoring well on an aptitude test.
The Pink to Green Toolkit 3.4: Attributes Self Assessment Worksheet
This tool provides a list of different types of attributes interviewers consider during an interview. Students can use as reference in conjunction with Tool 3.4 to better prepare for interviews.
A number of civil rights and employment laws and regulations at the federal, state, and local levels govern employment relations during the interview process. This tool outlines what those types of questions are, suggests sample responses, and enables students to brainstorm their own responses.
