JOB CORPS It’s hard to find workers now, but Whitney M. Young Human Resources is pounding the pavement to make sure our students have the best people available. Michelle Hendrickson, Human Resources Manager for Whitney M. Young, attended a job fair this week at Louisville’s Nia...
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93.5% of Alaska Job Corps Graduates Placed in Careers
It’s a never-ending success story at the Alaska Job Corps. In the last few months six graduates found employment in the health care industry. A few are now employed at other senior facilities as certified nursing assistants. Several are at Providence and Primrose...
Alaska Job Corps Students Welcome Senators’ Donated Books from Library of Congress
Thanks to Senator Murkowski, Alaska Job Corps is now enjoying a lot more reading material. There is no well stocked library at the Alaska Job Corps Center. But there are little collections of books in classrooms, dorm atriums, and in offices. Books are a precious...
Careers and Mountains are Lifetime Climbs.
The Alaska Job Corps program is more than a daily eight hour training program, five days a week. Both after class and on weekends, students continue to participate in leisure time activities with a purpose. Last weekend several students joined AKJCC Career Prep...
Careers Begin Here: Alaska Job Corps Center teaches Students to See Future Opportunities
Sometimes it is just ‘a way of looking at things’, which will actually expand and change one’s perspective. At the Alaska Job Corps, students are taught to look beyond the immediate horizon. They’re encouraged to investigate various options and side pathways....
Alaska Job Corps Serves at Regional Economic Development Forum
The Alaska Job Corps Culinary Arts Class and Chef Williams prepared and served the luncheon at the June 27th Economic Development Workshop, hosted by Mat Su Borough Manager John Moosey. In addition to the State Economist, there were movers and shakers from all cities,...
Job Corps Certified Nursing Assistants help Seniors at Regional Medical Center
Every month Alaska Job Corps Certified Nursing Assistants travel to the Mat Su Regional Medical Center to work with the elders at the monthly Senior Circle presentations. Students take blood pressures and work with the elders as requested. The elders are interested in...
Alaska Job Corps Center is one of Largest Contributors to Major Recycling Facility
The Alaska Job Corps Center is one of the largest contributors to the Regional recycling facility in the Mat Su Borough. All classrooms, dormitory halls, residential rooms, administration and activity centers have their own building recycle stations with separation...
Job Corps Graduates already Employed and More to Come
The gym was full and there were no more chairs. Or bleachers. Or standing room. The place was jam packed on Friday, Feb 26 when 57 students graduated at the Alaska Job Corps in Palmer. Community leaders, friends, family, alumni, colleagues, employers and staff watched...
Alaska Job Corps combines Training with important Public Service Projects
The Pump Track Kiosk is done, in the ground, and being used at Wilson Park in the City of Palmer. The Alaska Job Corps Carpentry students can check that particular project off their list. But their list is long. In the last year, these students in employment training...
Shiftgig Helps Joliet Job Corps Center Students Find Jobs
Shiftgig, the online employment agency for the hospitality and retail industries, visited the Joliet Job Corps Center on Wednesday. Rob Weber, the company’s director of service delivery, and Anna Shamshura, the centralized souring manager, explained how the students...
Profile of Success: Winston Facey
Shown here is Winston Facey, graduate of Building Construction Technology. While at Westover he was elected as Student Government President by his peers. He conducted field learning at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in Springfield and continued working...
Pittsburgh Completers Find Career Path Success
Here are success stories from seven completers at the Pittsburgh Job Corps Center: Kuljit K. completed the off center training program in Phlebotomy and was accepted into the college nursing program at the Community College of Allegheny County. London W. completed her...
Employment Opportunities Common Goal for New Haven Job Corps Center and Senator Blumenthal
The New Haven Job Corps Centers Outreach and Admissions Counselors, Lawrence Jackson and Basil Mitchell attended a job fair hosted by Senator Blumenthal at the Courtyard Marriott in Waterbury, CT on April 11, 2012. Mr. Jackson praised Senator Blumenthal for his...
Job Corps Training Leads to Job Corps Job for FM Grad
The New Haven Job Corps trained Tyshawn Beckford so well in the Facilities Maintenance trade that two years later he landed a job on the Center maintenance team. “I love being here on campus again,” said 27-year-old Tyshawn, Class of 2009. “I wouldn’t trade this job...
Turner Job Corps Graduate Chases A Career Instead of Hoop Dreams
WARNER ROBINS — Keith Graves understands that when the final buzzer sounds on his sophomore season as the starting point guard for Middle Georgia Tech, his basketball career will be over. But it’s also when the rest of his life will begin. “I’ve had two offers to...
Pittsburgh Grad at Work
Fernando Q. is a graduate from the OCT program(off center training program at the community college). While here, he was studying Criminal Justice. Now Fernando is working at Gateway Rehab in Braddock where he works in corrections as a Staff Monitor for Inmate...
Pittsburgh Completer Finds Work at UPMC
Talika J. completed the NAHHA (Nursing Assistant/Home Health Aide) program May 2011. She then went on to pass her state certification test to become a C.N.A. within the next 30 days. She returned to Maryland after her separation and showed her commitment to using her...
Pittsburgh Student Success Story
I felt this success story was appropriate because it demonstrates the need to remain in contact with your CTS Career Advisor. Student Benyamin J. is a Facilities Maintenance completer that lost contact with me and would not respond to my calls nor mail. One day out...
Job Corps Success Story Lands $20.95/Hour Job
“Push yourself to prove yourself.” Those words have guided Northlands student Tearron Dinkins to great heights as he completes his training in Urban Forestry…