Registration Procedures and Policies for all Workshops
Customers may take workshops at all three ETR career centers, but are limited to a total of six (6) workshops per month (including stand-by waiting lists).
There is a limit of three (3) computer workshops per month, and these count toward the six (6) total workshop limit.
Computer workshops include:
- Computer Practice Lab
- Electronic Resume
- Internet Job Search
- Introduction to MS Outlook
- Introduction to Personal Computers
- Introduction to Windows
- MS Access
- MS Excel
- MS PowerPoint
- MS Word
- Prove-It! Testing
- What's New in Office 2007
When calling to sign up for workshops, please be prepared with:
- your job seeker ID number (8 digit number beginning with 1)
- Don't have a job seeker ID? Register and get one at Massachusetts JobQuest
- up to six workshop requests
SIGN-UP PROCEDURE
- Registration for next month's workshops will be taken over the telephone or in person, beginning at 9:30 am on the third Friday of the current month. Registration is first-come first-served. If ETR offices are closed on the third Friday of the month, due to weather or other reasons, then workshop registration will move to the fourth Friday of the month.
- If any workshop is full when you attempt to register, you may request to be placed on the ‘Stand-by’ waiting list.
- If you are registering for a workshop that has a prerequisite, you will need to meet all the prerequisite requirements (See Workshop Description link below).
- Level II computer workshops require passing a placement test prior to registration (click here for the placement testing information and Level II workshop registration procedures).
POLICIES
- Customers may sign up for a maximum of six (6) workshops per month. This limit includes stand-by waiting lists.
- Customers may sign up for a maximum of three (3) computer-related workshops per month.
- Customers may not repeat the same workshop within a three month period. However, if there is an open seat on the day of the workshop, after all available stand-by customers have been seated, walk-in customers may attend on a first-come first-served basis, even if they have attended during the previous three months.
- All workshops start on time. A customer who is more than 15 minutes late will not be allowed to participate and will be recorded as a no-show.
- If a customer on the workshop list has not shown up or is more than 15 minutes late, the available opening will be filled either by a customer on the stand-by list or a walk-in (stand-by list has priority over walk-ins).
- If you must cancel a workshop, we ask that you call the career center where the workshop is to be held at least one (1) day prior to the beginning of the workshop so that someone else can attend.
- If you cannot attend a workshop and fail to cancel prior to the beginning of the workshop, you will be recorded as a no-show.
- Customers who miss two or more scheduled workshops without calling prior to the start of the workshop, in any two consecutive month period, will lose the privilege of signing up for future workshops.
- If you cannot complete a workshop due to extenuating circumstances, your name will be deleted from the workshop list and not recorded as a no-show.
- If customers can not keep up with a Level II computer workshop, the instructor will talk to them during the break and give them one of several choices -- e.g., to leave the class and reschedule for a future session, to stay in the class and just observe the workshop, etc.
CLASS MATERIALS
- Customers attending most workshops will get free handouts covering the materials taught in class.
- Customers attending Microsoft Office 2007 computer workshops will not receive printed materials. Instead they will have the option to purchase a CD containing all the class materials. The CD will include a PDF file of the Student Manual and all practice files used in the workshop. There will be a $3 fee (cash only) to obtain the CD. For Level II workshops, only customers who have attended both days of the two-day workshops will be offered the opportunity to purchase the CD.
- Students are not permitted to print the Student Manuals on Career Center printers.
