Stuck in a rut?…try Career Counseling!

Workforce³ One offers many reasons for seeking out career counseling and exploring new and exciting options for work and learning. Career counseling may help to identify:

New employment options in growing or vital industries that relate to your current skills, education and training, or potential education and training that you are considering obtaining.
Education and career coach training options to help people remain competent in a current job.
Education and career coach training options to help people get a better job.

What is career counseling?

Career counseling information includes information about occupations, educational institutions, career coach training programs, employment opportunities in growing or vital industries, employers, organizations, family and leisure as well as career guidance in the process of making career choices. Workforce³ One includes career counseling contributions compiled by career counselors, educators, employers, Workforce Investment System Professionals, career coaches and career planning specialists. Choose the type of information that helps you to learn best!

Take advantage of all the career planning tools and career counseling information that is available for you! Click here now to register for Workforce³ One’s website and to access webinars, to download tools and products, search the document library and archive, submit documents and links for posting consideration, and more!

Workforce³ One offers:

Live learning events
Toolkits to help employers understand available resources
Community building for sharing best practices and learning
Information about the model worksites

Workforce³ One also offers information about One Stop Career Centers, where those seeking career counseling information can go to work with a career coach, find short-term career coach training and education courses, as well as volunteer work, part-time work, full time work, internships, and co-op.

Professional career counseling has helped many people find new careers or re-establish existing ones. Click here to visit Workforce³ One’s integrated webspace today and learn about career counseling organizations and career planning tools.

What career counseling can do:

Career counseling from qualified career coaches and career counselors can help find which occupations fit a job seeker’s values, interests, skills, family situation, and available time for training and education. Information garnered from career counseling sessions may also help to see possibilities that were not previously considered. This information, along with the career guidance and career advice that knowledgeable career counselors can offer, may help job seekers to see positive and realistic possibilities for a better job.

Employer’s Corner

The Workforce Investment Act reformed Federal job training programs and created a new comprehensive workforce investment system. The reformed system is customer focused to help Americans access the tools they need to manage their careers through information and high quality services, and to help U.S. companies find skilled workers. Workforce³ One is proud to stand at the forefront of this endeavor.

Seven key principles guide the initiatives of the Workforce Investment Act:

Streamlining services through better integration at the street level in the One-Stop delivery system. Programs and providers will co-locate, coordinate and integrate activities and information, so that the system as a whole is coherent and accessible for individuals and businesses alike.
Empowering individuals in several ways.

First, eligible adults are given financial power to use Individual Training Accounts (ITA's) at qualified institutions. These ITA's supplement financial aid already available through other sources, or, if no other financial aid is available, they may pay for all the costs of training.
Second, individuals are empowered with greater levels of information and guidance, through a system of consumer reports providing key information on the performance outcomes of training and education providers.
Third, individuals are empowered through the advice, guidance, and support available through the One-Stop system, and the activities of One-Stop partners.

Universal access. Any individual will have access to the One-Stop system and to core employment-related services. Information about job vacancies, career options, student financial aid, relevant employment trends, and instruction on how to conduct a job search, write a resume, or interview with an employer is available to any job seeker in the U.S., or anyone who wants to advance his or her career.
Increased accountability. The goal of the Act is to increase employment, retention, and earnings of participants, and in doing so, improve the quality of the workforce to sustain economic growth, enhance productivity and competitiveness, and reduce welfare dependency.

Consistent with this goal, the Act identifies core indicators of performance that State and local entities managing the workforce investment system must meet--or suffer sanctions. However, State and local entities exceeding the performance levels can receive incentive funds.
Training providers and their programs also have to demonstrate successful performance to remain eligible to receive funds under the Act.
Participants, with their ITA's, have the opportunity to make training choices based on program outcomes. To survive in the market, training providers must make accountability for performance and customer satisfaction a top priority.

Strong role for local workforce investment boards and the private sector, with local, business-led boards acting as "boards of directors,'' focusing on strategic planning, policy development and oversight of the local workforce investment system. Business and labor have an immediate and direct stake in the quality of the workforce investment system. Their active involvement is critical to the provision of essential data on what skills are in demand, what jobs are available, what career fields are expanding, and the identification and development of programs that best meet local employer needs. Highly successful private industry councils under JTPA exhibit these characteristics now. Under WIA, this will become the norm.
State and local flexibility. States and localities have increased flexibility, with significant authority reserved for the Governor and chief elected officials, to build on existing reforms in order to implement innovative and comprehensive workforce investment systems tailored to meet the particular needs of local and regional labor markets.
Improved youth programs linked more closely to local labor market needs and community youth programs and services, and with strong connections between academic and occupational learning. Youth programs include activities that promote youth development and citizenship, such as leadership development through voluntary community service opportunities; adult mentoring and followup; and targeted opportunities for youth living in high poverty areas.

No matter what your particular situation is, there are career planning tools that are available for you! Click here now to register for Workforce³ One’s website and to access webinars, to download tools and products, search the document library and archive, submit documents and links for posting consideration, and more.

The key to the success of the workforce investment system is a constant stream of service delivery, which unifies numerous career coach training, education and employment programs into a single, customer-friendly system in each community. Workforce 3 One is a gateway to these programs, enabling a customer to have access to a seamless system of workforce investment services and career counseling options.

The variety of programs generally offered use common intake, case management and job development systems in order to take full advantage of the tools, resources and information available through Workforce³ One. A wide range of services from a variety of career coach training and employment programs are available to meet the needs of employers and job seekers.

This Workforce Investment Act legislation provided unprecedented opportunity for major reforms that resulted in a reinvigorated, integrated workforce investment system. Workforce³ One helps State and local communities work together with business, labor, community-based organizations, educational institutions, and other partners, to develop customer-focused, comprehensive delivery systems.

Become Aware…Become Involved!

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