The Westside One-Stop Career Center became fully operational in November 1996. Staffed by a team of employment counselors, a job developer, a job readiness trainer, and two clerical workers, the Career Center provides various employment-related services to public assistance recipients as they make the difficult transition from welfare to work. The Career Center also offers the same services to non-public assistance clients.

Services

• Skills and interests assessments
• Development of individualized job search plan
• Employment counseling and assisted job search
• Job search support groups
• Job readiness training modules
• Interviewing Skills
• Resume Preparation
• Applications and References
• Cover Letters, Thank You Letters and Telephone Techniques
• Registration in the State Job Service data base
• Job referrals from the Department of Labor Job Bank and other sources
• Job/applicant matching
• Job development
• Labor market analysis
• On-site employment recruitment
• Self-paced tying tutorials and typing tests
• Touch-screen federal job locator
• Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) information
• Phone bank for calling employers. One phone line has voice mail for the use of clients without phones
• Free access to computers, copiers and fax machines