JOB CORPS Student Rubar Kareemi demonstrates how PIVOT Job Corps Center can move careers forward.
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PIVOT Job Corps Center Uses Innovation to Increase Graduate Placement
Every year Springdale/PIVOT's contractor, MTC, offers an Innovation and Impact Award to its centers. This award encourages centers to look at areas they want to improve performance in and come up with creative and effective ways to do that. This year, PIVOT's Site...
PIVOT JCC Partners With Local Org for Resume Writing Event
PIVOT Employment Specialist Jessica Corpuel is focused on making sure students are as prepared as they possibly can be for the job market. Between matching them to work-based learning internships that frequently lead to job placements, working with them on their...
PIVOT JCC Hosts High School Counselors at Open House
PIVOT Job Corps Center welcomed local high school counselors and counselors from youth transition programs around the Portland metro area on Wednesday, October 5th. In addition to the counselors and case workers, attendees included DESI Admission Counselors who were...
Work-Based Learning Takes a Comic Turn
Sometimes comic book conventions can provide more than just entertainment.
PIVOT Job Corps Center Opens its Doors to Men
For the first time in its history, PIVOT Job Corps Center in northwest Portland, Oregon, has opened its doors to male applicants. Traditionally PIVOT has been an all-female center, focusing on providing training to young women in the Portland metro area. Site Director...
PIVOT Office Administration trade visits Mercy Corps Action Center
Students in the Office Administration trade at the PIVOT center visited the Mercy Corps Action Center in downtown Portland on Friday. The public center is one of two in the nation that provides insight to the organizations fight against hunger; the other center is...
PIVOT Job Corps Participates in Library Reading Initiative
PIVOT Job Corps Participates in Library Reading Initiative Portland, OR Every year the Multnomah County Library in beautiful Northwest Oregon conducts a campaign known as Everybody Reads. The library system chooses one book that they give away free (no return...