This is Barbara the Queen and Sheriff of WorkSource Lakewood
This is Raymond and Jim
This week everyone is back to work thank you. I was given a list of maybe 60 to 75 long term unemployed veterans and tasked to call them and find out what type of work they were looking for, if they were looking for retraining, and invited them to the first part of a 4 part employment program. For the first group we have to find 10 veterans that are looking for work in IT, Warehouse, and Production. I thought that this would be an easy task but it wasn't. Most of the veterans were at an age close to retirement, and had health issues. These same people now want to get retrained so that they can do so less intense work other than production or warehouse, and a lot of them are not computer illiterate so the IT where not easy to fill either. After calling all of my veterans and leaving many messages I got three veterans who fit the profile employment in these three fields. Next we had to have them either email or fax their resume to us, so that we could verify that they qualified. If they did not have a resume we set and appointment to attend a resume writing class or to sit with a Veteran Representative. The first event is Veteran employment Boot Camp and it is on 03/21/2011 and we will be working with this group of ten veterans and this will grow each month as we connect with more employers in other fields for April the will be on CDL drivers, customer service, and flaggers. This week I included pics of co workers.
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