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The Office of Workforce Development offers support and opportunity for residents to obtain employment and achieve their career goals. Offers a range of employment and training services such as:

Hennepin Pathways: A collaboration between regional employers, educators, and community partners offering education of multiple career paths to choose from. Graduates from a particular program are employed countywide in office administration, human services, and building operations. The program meets county hiring needs while also connecting job seekers with meaningful work, livable wages, benefits, and career growth.

Job Development: Serves a diverse group of job seekers, including veterans, youth, and individuals with criminal background who have a wide range of skills, abilities, and experiences. Provides employment services to job seekers such as job training, employment, career assistance programs, and help unemployed and underemployed people find jobs. Visit website for more information about job fairs, hiring events, job resources, education and training, and community CareerForce centers.

Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) Employment Services: Supports participants on MFIP as they transition from poverty to economic self-sufficiency to reduce the likelihood of returning to the program.

Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Dislocated Worker, Adult, and Youth Programs: A federally funded program to increase jobseeker's access to employment, education, training, and support services to succeed in the labor market while matching employers with skilled workers to meet the demand of occupations and industries. Improve workforce quality, reduce public benefits dependency, and meet employer skill requirements.

Each organization will have their own application process. Job seekers will typically go through a process such as:

- Application, eligibility determination, and program enrollment

- Formal and informal assessments (education level, interests, workforce skills, work history, etc.)

- Development of an Individual Employment Plan: Determining service needs based on assessments (career and resume counseling, job search assistance, training/education services, etc.)

- Retention Services: Ensuring individuals have the resources to maintain unsubsidized employment after exiting the program

Provides client-centered services to individuals and collaborates with area partners to make opportunities for job creation and retention. Helps individuals develop skills to prepare for the workforce in high-demand career pathways. Services include: - Career interest and skills assessment - Employment services - Career case management assistance - Job readiness, search, and placement - Short-term job-related training - Supportive services and referrals - Work experience and on-the-job training - Youth summer program to provide job skills, education, work experience, and summer youth employment. Activities depend on the participant's age.

Individualized job-seeker services, including: - Academic skill testing - Career counseling - College research - Creating resumes and cover letters - GED preparation - Hands-on computer classes - Job search skills development - Life skills training - Preparing for interviews

Provides assistance to individuals who are dislocated or unemployed, struggling to navigate the job market.

This includes:

- Personal one-to-one career counseling

- Access to computers for your job search

- Occupational and job search skills training

- Help finding work

- Tuition assistance

Provides assistance to individuals who are dislocated or unemployed, struggling to navigate the job market.

This includes:

- Personal one-to-one career counseling

- Access to computers for your job search

- Occupational and job search skills training

- Help finding work

- Tuition assistance

Services include, but are not limited to:

​- Assistance with resumes, job applications, and interview preparations

​- Budgeting assistance

​- Career counseling and exploration

​- Employment and job search workshops

​​- Goal setting

​- Introduction to listings of regional job openings

​- Job placement assistance

​​- On-the-job training opportunities

​- Paid work experience programs with local employers

​- Post-high school education assistance

- Referrals to other service agencies that may be of assistance

​- Skill training in reading, math, job, and life skills

​- Supportive services such as transportation, childcare, housing, etc. may be available if eligible for one of the programs.

​- Tests and assessments to find interest levels and skills

Hired supports individuals, families and youth through comprehensive employment services to learn new skills and achieve their academic and career goals. Programs are available throughout the Twin Cities, but not all programs are offered at every site. - Adult Employment/WIOA Program: The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) serves individuals who are looking to improve their skills and advance their careers - Career Training Program: Provides counseling, training, workshops, and job search assistance. Participants build skills and gain professional qualifications to find employment that is a right fit for them - Family Stability/MFIP - Minnesota Family Investment Program: Assistance for parents who receive MFIP to help them build family-sustaining careers - Youth Services: Provides coaching, support, and training to help youth and young adults complete a diploma or GED, explore careers, and gain employment in a field they are interested

Medtronic: Recruits for 2nd and 3rd shift jobs and offers an interactive course at Medtronic. The course helps participants build resumes, develop interview skills and offers personalized job coaching and training. EMERGE Career and Technology Center (ECTC), 1834 Emerson Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55411 Career Essentials Workshops: Learn how to professionally write a resume or conduct a successful job search through a 2-part MFIP/DWP workshop that provides the tools to develop career skills. Learn more about:

• Basic resume writing, formatting tricks, basic resume etiquette
• Insight to job searching tools and practices
• How to write a targeted cover letter
• Importance of professional emails
• Workshop schedule and expectations
• Computer lab for youth and adults

EMERGE Career and Technology Center, 1834 Emerson Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55411 North @ Work: North @ Work is a collaborative meant to facilitate career training and employment services for African-American males, age 25 or older, living in north Minneapolis and looking for a career. This workshop is free and can connect participants to resources, training and a career with an employer.

• Choose a career path
• Attend training while working
• Be guided by step-by-step partnerships to help reach goals
• Launch a career with employers that are hiring now

Twin Cities R!se, 1301 Bryant Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55411 Hire Ground: Helps participants learn the power of self-advocacy, soft and hard professional skills and habits. Participants also have the opportunity to discover their values, personality type, learning style, and learn how to talk about their skills and value they can bring to a professional audience and workplace.

• Develop effective strategies for job searching
• Learn the power of self-advocacy and habit
• Practice interviewing skills
• Resume and cover letter building
• Modern day job market insight and know-how

EMERGE Career and Technology Center (ECTC), 1834 Emerson Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55411 Cedar-Riverside Opportunity Center (CROC), 505 15th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55454 Global Career Development Facilitator Training An intense high impact course designed to equip career services employees with the needed industry tools to guide participants in their career planning and guidance. This GCDF® / CCSP Training course is intended for anyone providing career services in employment and workforce development, one stops, career centers, secondary and post-secondary education, veteran career development, career coaching, career advisors, human resources, government or other professionals that desire nationally recognized career training.

A comprehensive employment and training programs for youth providing assessment, job search/career exploration, employment counseling, job development, job placements, remedial education referrals and support (GED), MFIP services, and case management services.

Youth Career Services: Workshops offering how to prepare for college, career decision making and exploration, career readiness training, paid internships, post-secondary support, and improving technology understanding. Summer and school-year programs available. North 4: Provides pathways to success for gang/clique involved adolescents and young adult men residing in four north Minneapolis neighborhoods. Services include leadership, life skills, and work-readiness training, one-on-one job coaching and on-going individual support. Participants are encouraged to participate, plan, and lead community engagement activities/events and retreat-style activities.

- Adult day services

- Assessment: Measures a person's strengths, interests, and work skills - Atmosphere that promotes social relationships, self-sufficiency, and opportunity for growth

- Center-based employment provides supervised employment opportunities in light industrial packaging and manual assembly, shrink wrap, skin wrap, and blister packaging

- Community-based group employment under supervision of trained staff; services include case management, training, and advocacy

​- Day Training and Habilitation Program - DT&H

- Follow-up Services: Professional job retention support

- Job Coaching: One-to-one training on employment skills - Job Development: Develops employment options for community placement, assists with resume preparation, interviewing skills, provides employer services, and matches participants' desires to employers

- Life skills classes and social activities - Supported employment provides training and independent placement of individuals desiring jobs in community settings ​​- Traumatic Brain Injury Program- Vast majority of participants are transported to and from their homes on ProAct vehicles, which include specialized equipment, wheelchair lift buses, commuter vans, and cars- Vocational skill development

- Work Adjustment Training: Develops job skills to assist individuals in career planning specific to individual goals​

Individualized job-seeker services, including: - Academic skill testing - Career counseling - College research - Creating resumes and cover letters - GED preparation - Hands-on computer classes - Job search skills development - Life skills training - Preparing for interviews

Provides assistance to individuals who are dislocated or unemployed, struggling to navigate the job market.

This includes:

- Personal one-to-one career counseling

- Access to computers for your job search

- Occupational and job search skills training

- Help finding work

- Tuition assistance

- Adult day services

- Assessment: Measures a person's strengths, interests, and work skills - Atmosphere that promotes social relationships, self-sufficiency, and opportunity for growth

- Center-based employment provides supervised employment opportunities in light industrial packaging and manual assembly, shrink wrap, skin wrap, and blister packaging

- Community-based group employment under supervision of trained staff; services include case management, training, and advocacy

​- Day Training and Habilitation Program - DT&H

- Follow-up Services: Professional job retention support

- Job Coaching: One-to-one training on employment skills - Job Development: Develops employment options for community placement, assists with resume preparation, interviewing skills, provides employer services, and matches participants' desires to employers

- Life skills classes and social activities - Supported employment provides training and independent placement of individuals desiring jobs in community settings ​​- Traumatic Brain Injury Program- Vast majority of participants are transported to and from their homes on ProAct vehicles, which include specialized equipment, wheelchair lift buses, commuter vans, and cars- Vocational skill development

- Work Adjustment Training: Develops job skills to assist individuals in career planning specific to individual goals​

Provides assistance to individuals who are dislocated or unemployed, struggling to navigate the job market.

This includes:

- Personal one-to-one career counseling

- Access to computers for your job search

- Occupational and job search skills training

- Help finding work

- Tuition assistance

Hired supports individuals, families and youth through comprehensive employment services to learn new skills and achieve their academic and career goals. Programs are available throughout the Twin Cities, but not all programs are offered at every site. - Adult Employment/WIOA Program: The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) serves individuals who are looking to improve their skills and advance their careers - Career Training Program: Provides counseling, training, workshops, and job search assistance. Participants build skills and gain professional qualifications to find employment that is a right fit for them - Family Stability/MFIP - Minnesota Family Investment Program: Assistance for parents who receive MFIP to help them build family-sustaining careers - Youth Services: Provides coaching, support, and training to help youth and young adults complete a diploma or GED, explore careers, and gain employment in a field they are interested

Individualized job-seeker services, including: - Academic skill testing - Career counseling - College research - Creating resumes and cover letters - GED preparation - Hands-on computer classes - Job search skills development - Life skills training - Preparing for interviews

Official career exploration and job search resource for the state. Search statewide job postings, learn about training opportunities, participate in job search workshops, get individualized job counseling, and more. Some services are available online and in person. Services vary by location but may include:

- Career exploration and planning services

- Connections to education and training resources

- Job search assistance, including resume revisions and interview preparation

- Online job search tools, including employment readiness assessment, interest assessment, and skills matcher

- One-on-one appointment with a career specialist

Visit the website to find a CareerForce location and corresponding contact information: https://careerforce.mn.gov/locations

Services for persons who are unemployed, welfare recipients, dislocated workers, older workers, and youth are located in neighborhood centers. Services include: - Interview training, job search techniques, resume preparation assistance

- Job development

- Job information, including job banks, job fairs, and job lines

- Layoff preparation

- MFIP employment services for eligible recipients

- Other support services

- Prevocational training

- School to career programs

- Skills training through apprenticeships, classroom training, internships, and on-the-job training

- Vocational assessment and counseling, career change counseling, career awareness

- WIA program

Provides assistance to individuals who are dislocated or unemployed, struggling to navigate the job market.

This includes:

- Personal one-to-one career counseling

- Access to computers for your job search

- Occupational and job search skills training

- Help finding work

- Tuition assistance

Individualized job-seeker services, including: - Academic skill testing - Career counseling - College research - Creating resumes and cover letters - GED preparation - Hands-on computer classes - Job search skills development - Life skills training - Preparing for interviews

Medtronic: Recruits for 2nd and 3rd shift jobs and offers an interactive course at Medtronic. The course helps participants build resumes, develop interview skills and offers personalized job coaching and training. EMERGE Career and Technology Center (ECTC), 1834 Emerson Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55411 Career Essentials Workshops: Learn how to professionally write a resume or conduct a successful job search through a 2-part MFIP/DWP workshop that provides the tools to develop career skills. Learn more about:

• Basic resume writing, formatting tricks, basic resume etiquette
• Insight to job searching tools and practices
• How to write a targeted cover letter
• Importance of professional emails
• Workshop schedule and expectations
• Computer lab for youth and adults

EMERGE Career and Technology Center, 1834 Emerson Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55411 North @ Work: North @ Work is a collaborative meant to facilitate career training and employment services for African-American males, age 25 or older, living in north Minneapolis and looking for a career. This workshop is free and can connect participants to resources, training and a career with an employer.

• Choose a career path
• Attend training while working
• Be guided by step-by-step partnerships to help reach goals
• Launch a career with employers that are hiring now

Twin Cities R!se, 1301 Bryant Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55411 Hire Ground: Helps participants learn the power of self-advocacy, soft and hard professional skills and habits. Participants also have the opportunity to discover their values, personality type, learning style, and learn how to talk about their skills and value they can bring to a professional audience and workplace.

• Develop effective strategies for job searching
• Learn the power of self-advocacy and habit
• Practice interviewing skills
• Resume and cover letter building
• Modern day job market insight and know-how

EMERGE Career and Technology Center (ECTC), 1834 Emerson Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55411 Cedar-Riverside Opportunity Center (CROC), 505 15th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55454 Global Career Development Facilitator Training An intense high impact course designed to equip career services employees with the needed industry tools to guide participants in their career planning and guidance. This GCDF® / CCSP Training course is intended for anyone providing career services in employment and workforce development, one stops, career centers, secondary and post-secondary education, veteran career development, career coaching, career advisors, human resources, government or other professionals that desire nationally recognized career training.

A comprehensive employment and training programs for youth providing assessment, job search/career exploration, employment counseling, job development, job placements, remedial education referrals and support (GED), MFIP services, and case management services.

Youth Career Services: Workshops offering how to prepare for college, career decision making and exploration, career readiness training, paid internships, post-secondary support, and improving technology understanding. Summer and school-year programs available. North 4: Provides pathways to success for gang/clique involved adolescents and young adult men residing in four north Minneapolis neighborhoods. Services include leadership, life skills, and work-readiness training, one-on-one job coaching and on-going individual support. Participants are encouraged to participate, plan, and lead community engagement activities/events and retreat-style activities.

Individualized job-seeker services, including: - Academic skill testing - Career counseling - College research - Creating resumes and cover letters - GED preparation - Hands-on computer classes - Job search skills development - Life skills training - Preparing for interviews

Provides the following: - Comprehensive job assistance including employment counseling, job referrals, job placements, and job development - Citizenship education

Academic advising and support services:

- American Indian Learning Resource Center

- Career Center

- Disability Resources

- Diversity and Inclusion

- International Student Services

- Tutoring Center

Campus resources:

- Campus daycare

- Counseling

- Medical services: Professional medical staff at UMD Health Services provides quality, primary health care

- Student health services: A comprehensive health and wellness facility provides health care needs to college students

- Technology resources

Student Life:

- Kirby Student Center

- Multicultural Center

- Recreational Sports Outdoor Program (RSOP) and Facilities

- Sports clubs

- Student Government Association

- Student organizations

UMD One Stop Student Services: Provides expert advice regarding registration, financial aid, billing, payment, student records, and veterans benefits