i went to a career center

filled with foreigners making too much pay

who then suggest you use county computers (as if your too poor to get one - though we really know they have a computer room to spend tax money)

your then (up to 2015) i think - threatened and told you will not receive aid unless you ACCEPT a job they offer you - and they steer you toward jobs paying minimum wage that are (though they dont say) - run by local politcal rich families

the job listings they let you look at "VEC" vaws fx co jobs VA jobs? i've never had one get back to me once (nor by indeet, brassring, et al) for applying to a listing (many listings are filled but legally must be posted - yet another fairfax scam).

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Take a tour of our SkillSource Center services (PowerPoint presentation).

Job seekers and employers in Northern Virginia have access to a comprehensive system of employment and training services and resources — offered at no cost through a network of employment resource centers, called SkillSource centers located throughout the Northern Virginia area.

Services are designed to align job seekers with jobs that match their short- and long-term career goals and employers with the workforce talent they need.

Looking for a job?

If you, or someone you know needs help finding a job — or finding a better job — check out the employment and training services of the Northern Virginia Workforce Investment Board.

Services include:

Job preparation workshops
Career assessments
Job search and placement assistance
Ongoing customer support
Centers with phones, fax machines, copiers, computers and helpful professional staff.

For more information, call any of the SkillSource Employment Resource Centers listed below:

Annandale area: 703-533-5400; TTY:711
South County area: 703-704-6286; TTY:703-704-6685
North County area: 703-787-4974; TTY:711

For more information ...

Services provided through the Northern Virginia Workforce Investment Board
Find job listings through the Virginia Employment Commission

If you are between the ages of 17 – 21, check out the WIA Youth Program.


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Frequently Asked Questions about Employment Resource Center Services

Q: Who is eligible for services through the Employment Resource Centers?

Everyone is a potential customer of our centers:

Individuals seeking new opportunities or training to upgrade their skills
Students and new workforce entrants
Employers hiring new employees or training their current labor force.

Q: What services are available for JOB SEEKERS through the Employment Resource Centers?
For job seekers, our programs offer:

Job preparation workshops, including resume-writing assistance
Individualized employment/career counseling
Information about job-related training and education
Ongoing customer support.

Q: How do your services benefit EMPLOYERS?

Services offered to help EMPLOYERS find qualified workers include:

Opportunities to conduct on-site interviewing and recruiting of potential employees
Individualized screening and assessment of job applicants
Ongoing follow-up to guarantee employers’ satisfaction
Support services to job seekers and employers to mediate issues that may interfere with job stability and retention
Information about skills or occupational/education and training programs available in the community.

Q: What are your hours and where are you located?

There are three Employment Resource Centers located in the Fairfax County area, including the cities of Fairfax and Falls Church. Office hours vary by location. Please check below to see each center's hours.

Call, stop in, or fax your questions to an Employment Resource Center listed below

Heritage Center, West Wing
7611 Little River Turnpike
Annandale, VA 22003
703-533-5400; TTY: 703-533-5316; fax 703-241-8413
Monday - Thursday, 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Friday: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

8350 Richmond Highway
Suite 327
Alexandria, VA 22309
703-704-6286; TTY: 703-799-3435; Fax 703-704-6296
Monday – Thursday, 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Friday: 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

11484 Washington Plaza West
Suite 110; Reston, VA 20190
703-787-4974; TTY:703-787-3166; fax 703-787-9232
Monday v Thursday, 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Friday: 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

In Loudoun County, call: 703-777-0150

Q: Is there a fee for your services?

No. Services through the Employment Resource Centers are provided free of charge.

Q: What kind of job search tools are offered at your Employment Resource Centers?

Each Employment Resource Center provides job listings; telephones; fax machines; copiers; computers with Internet access and Microsoft Office; typing tutorials; and experienced and helpful staff ready to prepare job applicants for the workplace.

Q: What kinds of jobs are available?

Many of the tools available in the center, such as Internet access, open the doors to a wide range of jobs in Northern Virginia, the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, and the nation. Job seekers who have used our services have found jobs in such fields as:

Technical/Professional
Administrative Support/Clerical
Customer Service/Retail
Food Service/Hospitality
Skilled Trades
Janitorial/Grounds Maintenance
Drivers/Transportation

Q: How soon will I locate a job?

The time it takes to find a job varies from person to person. It depends not only on your skills, knowledge and experience, but on the type of work you are looking for and on your motivation and dedication to finding employment.

Q: How are you able to work with people who do not speak English?

Some of our staff are bilingual. We also use interpreters from community organizations specializing in multicultural services. In addition, some of our written materials are printed in other languages.
Related Resources — Employment and Training

www.myskillsource.org
Northern Virginia Workforce Investment Board

www.usworkforce.org
Information on the Workforce Investment Act from the U.S. Department of Labor — Employment & Training Administration

www.vec.state.va.us
Virginia Employment Commission (has job listings)





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their job, these foreigners working for democrat.gov, is making paper work showing you need to accept a min. wage job since

"they are higher, you are lower"

i'm having an issue they want me to give them BANKING INFORMATION over the internet (this is VA democrats running in some office - maybe not even in the state)

i want to apply for jobs but cannot see why i should be giving banking information to "just anyone on the internet claiming affiliation with government". every obama looser and foreign agent is in this democrat run government

infact - i imagine most id theft today is exactly due to democrats taking information that republicans left behind and mis-using it - transfering it outside the USA

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> their job, these foreigners working for
> democrat.gov, is making paper work showing you
> need to accept a min. wage job since
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> "they are higher, you are lower"
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my point is - they are snooty and DO NOT HELP one find employment in any manner

they only give you lip service - useless advice you heard in High School. they do not in any manner have ANY job leads or even career planning advice

(ie, many illegals have been "fast tracked" by free firehouse training or what to do certified work after training for the county. but the fx co gov jobs center seems to know nothing about this. many big jobs went on and are going on (ie, building of metro) - but VEC never seems to know anything about it. only recently does any of the jobs appear in the listings - but like always since the 90's - emailing in applications are never responded to)

my point is - they are snooty and DO NOT HELP one find employment in any manner - simply steer one to a PC lab which is continually maintained at taxper expense

these six hiring trends.

It's 2016 – and a week into the New Year, you're likely scrambling to stay on top of your resolutions. We feel you. But whether those resolutions include taking a fashion cue from Prince George, becoming more verbose on Twitter, getting over your Netflix true-crime obsessions – or, ahem, coming to terms with them, or making "healthy-ish" a part of your vocabulary, here's one more resolution you'd be smart to add to your list: Finding out what's ahead in the world of hiring.

We've made it really easy for you by taking all the great info from CareerBuilder's 2016 U. S. Job Forecast and condensing it down to six key takeaways you need to know about in the coming months. So put down those barbells, TV remotes, quilted coats and kale-cinnamon smoothies and listen up.

Here are six highlights of what's ahead for hiring:

1.Full-time, permanent hiring is holding steady, and customer service is hot.
Thirty-six percent of employers plan to add full-time, permanent employees in 2016, the same as 2015.

"On average, the U.S. has added 200,000 jobs each month over the last two years, and we expect 2016 to produce similar results, if not better," says CareerBuilder CEO Matt Ferguson.

Of the employers who plan to increase the number of full-time employees this year, the top areas they'll be recruiting for are customer service (32 percent), followed by information technology (29 percent) and sales (27 percent). The fields of production, administrative jobs and marketing came in next, at 24 percent, 20 percent and 18 percent, respectively.
Don't wait: Jump on this trend now by checking out our weekly and monthly reports of companies hiring – right now -- in these fields and more



2. The skills gap is opening new doors for low-skill workers.
More than half (63 percent) of employers say they are concerned with a growing skills gap, and 48 percent report extended vacancies within their organizations. Thirty-three percent of employers plan to hire low-skill workers and invest in training them for high-skill jobs in 2016.

3. STEM hiring seeds are being planted sooner. To encourage the next generation of workers to pursue STEM-related fields (science, technology, engineering and math), employers are building relationships with students at an early age. One quarter of employers (25 percent) plan to hire high school students as interns over the next 12 months.

Interested in moving into a STEM field? Here are the coolest STEM jobs that should be on your radar.

4. Wages are rising to keep up with increasing competition for talent.

In an effort to retain and attract top performers, 83 percent of employers plan to increase compensation for existing employees – on par with 82 percent last year, while 66 percent will offer higher starting salaries for new employees – up from 64 percent last year.

5. There is a push for diversity in leadership: Companies are expanding demographics in their company leadership. Fifty-five percent of employers plan to hire or promote more women for management roles, and 53 percent plan to do the same for diverse workers. Forty-seven percent of employers plan to promote workers under the age of 30 into management roles.

Looking to break through that proverbial glass ceiling? These three tips can point you in the right direction.

6. U.S. employers will look globally to fill labor gaps. Employers will continue to look at talent pools outside the U.S. to help fill labor deficits. Nearly 1 in 5 (19 percent) say they will hire workers with H-1B visas in 2016, which enables them to temporarily employ foreign-born workers for specialized occupations.

^^ listen to that city trash saying your future is to work in retail with NY,NY profiting

meanwhile colleges are hiring (anyone who can bilk more money out of potential students)

their careers centers (unlike the older ones i had visited) now all just parrot the same thing:

"dog care, dental care, nurses, network IT admins, elderly care" are the career people should place bets on for money and for job growth

that's also what forbes and other news sources

none of them say a damn word about: engineering, factory work, building specialists (ie, roofer). its' as if they beleive roofs always exist by mexicans installing them due to back door deals.

no - no use studying anything bug dog care. btw your college is pushing certifications in dog care (but can't seem to get their act together to offer roofing apprenticeships and insurance certifications, or many of anything else - they are core core core classes. hope you like a nation that is 1/2 nurses 1/2 IT and dogs that fallse apart without imports and outsourced labor)

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having been in IT i know they jobs get handed out politically not by experience and thousands or really hundreds of thousands of workers are so un-employed they do IT work for free (GPL / Open Source) because they know all too well no one is paying.

nursing i'm unsure of but i have an idea. i can only guess ALLOT of women try to do it that aren't getting paid (meaning the many who are - are actually quite competitive women in a field very much structure for woemen to accel in). i can only imagine allot of money, years later and with total dedication - could one consider "nursing" a sure way of earning money

fire dept ambulance etc - often peple in are shoed in from past members or gov workers or rich families (they dont go by long waited, age, best resume - infact niggas have made testing illegal in electrician field during obama!! dont mind if yor house burns down long as it aint mine - that's a bet i'll take. right?)

yet - the "good stuff" - which is what %90 of fairfax and feds are doing - are not nursing dental. and i know many of them certainly were involved in scams to get their jobs

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career planning has gone way downhill

the plannign center at NVCC and GMU used to have long tables of jobs predictions present numbers - that spanned a huge number of fields

simply put: they are all now just parrotting careers the college itself is offering - which to save cost - is limited in scope

(UVA mining/endergy schools excluded)

It is rather difficult placing people that are unemployed due to mental illness.

Even if you really want to be an astronaut or a neurosurgeon many potential employers are put off by the foil hat, bedroom slippers and conspiracy voices you hear in your head and converse with out loud.

Minimum wages where you are not allowed to handle sharp edges or pointed objects could be all that is in your future.

Have you tried Melwood?