Compass
What Is Your Purpose? What Is Your Plan?
Compass is a human-centered Purpose & Plan Framework designed to help people understand where they are, determine where they want to go, build a realistic path toward employment and opportunity, and keep moving forward.
Know where you are. Understand your purpose. Develop a plan. Choose a path. Measure your progress.
Technology organizes the journey. People guide it.
Ready to Take the First Step?
Tell us where you are, what you’re trying to accomplish, and where you want to go next.
Start With CompassDirection
Start With Where You Are
Finding a job is important. But before we begin searching, we need to understand the person doing the searching.
Where are you today? What skills and experience do you bring? What are you trying to accomplish? What does your next step need to look like?
Purpose — Why?
What is employment supposed to accomplish in your life right now?
For one person, the priority may be financial stability. For another, it may be returning to the workforce, advancing a career, changing direction, developing new skills, supporting a family, or creating a path toward entrepreneurship.
Plan — What?
What is the next realistic objective?
Compass helps turn purpose into a practical employment or career destination.
Path — How?
What combination of employers, opportunities, relationships, training, resources, preparation, and support can help you get there?
Progress — Are We Moving?
We track actions, results, obstacles, opportunities, interviews, employment, and next steps.
And when circumstances change, we recalibrate the plan and keep moving.
Community
You Shouldn’t Have to Navigate Alone
Employment has become increasingly technology-driven and increasingly disconnected.
Compass is designed to put people and relationships back into the process.
The Compass Community provides opportunities for:
- Coaching and guidance
- Accountability and encouragement
- Peer support
- Employer connections
- Networking and referrals
- Interview preparation
- Job-search assistance
- Training and resource connections
- Ongoing follow-up
The Community is not simply a class or a weekly meeting. It surrounds the employment journey.
Members can connect, work their plans, receive help when they get stuck, share progress, meet employers and other resources, and remain connected as they move forward.
And employment does not necessarily end that relationship.
Member → Employed Member → Alumni → Mentor → Connector → Employer Partner
People who have successfully navigated their own journey can eventually help someone else navigate theirs.
Opportunity
Finding Opportunities That Fit the Plan
Compass is not designed to simply produce more job listings.
Compass is being developed to identify and organize opportunities that make sense based on an individual’s skills, experience, needs, direction, and plan.
Those opportunities can include:
- Job openings
- Target employers
- Career pathways
- Training opportunities
- Certifications
- Apprenticeships
- Employer relationships
- Referrals and introductions
- Emerging workforce needs
Technology helps us search, organize, compare, track, and surface possibilities.
But a computer should not decide someone’s future.
The system identifies possibilities. People decide which paths make sense.
Compass is designed to work in both directions.
What opportunities fit this individual’s skills, needs, purpose, and plan?
Which members may be a strong fit for an employer’s opportunity?
The Compass Journey
Compass provides structure throughout the employment journey.
Technology Should Support People — Not Replace Them
Applications disappear into automated systems. Candidates often receive little or no feedback. Employers struggle to identify the right people.
Job seekers can spend hours submitting applications without knowing whether they are making meaningful progress.
Compass uses technology differently.
Technology can help organize information, identify opportunities, track progress, schedule follow-up, recognize inactivity, and make the employment process more efficient.
But when someone gets stuck, the answer should usually be another person — not another automated message.
Technology organizes the journey. People guide it.
For Employers
Better Connections Between People and Opportunity
Employers are an important part of the Compass Community.
Compass is being developed to help employers connect with individuals whose skills, preparation, interests, and employment plans may align with real workforce needs.
Potential employer partnerships may include:
- Candidate connections
- Employment opportunities
- Career information
- Workplace visits
- Interview opportunities
- Talent pipelines
- Early employment support
Joel M. Winston & Company can also work directly with employers facing broader workforce challenges involving recruiting, hiring processes, onboarding, retention, workforce planning, and operating systems.
Multiple Paths. One Direction.
No single organization, program, job board, employer, or training provider has every answer.
Compass can draw upon employers, workforce organizations, churches, community groups, training providers, staffing and recruiting organizations, mentors, coaches, regional intelligence, and personal relationships.
The member remains at the center.
We don’t move people through programs. We use programs, relationships, resources, and opportunities to help people move toward their destination.
What’s Your Purpose? What’s Your Plan?
You don’t need to have your entire future figured out.
You need to understand where you are, decide where you want to go next, develop a workable plan, and begin moving.
Compass can help you take that first step — and keep moving forward.