Theoretical background
Azrin’s Job Club represents more than professional counselling; it is theory merged with
practical job search. Rigorously structured, Azrin’s method brings the beneficiaries
together in an organized manner to look for a job, focusing on the aim set.
Unlike other Job Clubs, less structured or guided, Azrin’s model introduces a selection
criterion for the participants. Thus, only clients who have a clear view of their own
professional options (what kind of job they wish for) will be included in the programme.
According to Azrin’s theory, the chances of success for a Job Club are increased when
the participants:
- have a clear aim: looking for a particular type of work (that they are able to
describe); - know their own potential, resources (aptitudes, abilities, interests) well; the
author holds that members of a Job Club should be able to enumerate at least
five aptitudes / abilities or competences of their own that could help them
identify, obtain and keep the desired job; - have clear information on what companies they should contact;
- start from a certain model (work plan) in their attempt to get a job.
Once the aim has been set, participants can learn to use a series of efficient instruments
and techniques to find a job: compiling a professional file, attending an interview
(simulation), job analysis, analysis of the companies carrying out activities in the field of
interest, self-assessment of knowledge, interests and aptitudes, etc.
The purpose of the method is not only to guide and support participants in their search for
employment, but also to help them find and keep a job where they can express and make
use of their entire potential by achieving the satisfaction and performance expected.
Otherwise they will soon be unemployed again.
Method presentation
Job Club is a practical, active and participative model where the participants discover and
develop under the direct guidance and supervision of the Job Club’s leader, their
aptitudes, competences and abilities required by the position they wish to fill.