Pikes Peak Worforce Center hosts job fair
The Pikes Peak Workforce Center is hosting a spring job fair tomorrow, April 18. The job fair is set up to help “adults who are looking for a job or for a better job,” according to the center. Some of the featured employers include Engineering Systems Inc., Advantage Sales & Marketing, The Mining Exchange Wyndham [...]
The Pikes Peak Workforce Center is calling for employers to participate in youth summer employment fair. The center’s Youth Zone is hosting a job fair at The DoubleTree Hotel Thursday, March 7 and urges any El Paso or Teller County employers who pay at least the minimum wage of $7.78 per hour to participate. There [...]
Continue reading …Thanks to a state effort, the Pikes Peak Workforce Center added more than $2 million to the local economy and helped 837 people find job training. The Colorado Enhanced Approved Training Program allows people in the state who are receing unemployment benefits to receive 50 percent more a week if they are attending a traning [...]
Continue reading …The Springs’ only five-star hotel and its newest bowling lane are among the employers looking for summer workers at the Governor’s Summer Job Hunt tomorrow at Stargazer’s Theater. The Broadmoor hotel and the Brunswick Zones are only two local employers seeking help from teenagers 16 to 21. Other companies include Bison Media, Keller Homes, the [...]
Continue reading …The Pikes Peak Workforce Center is looking for employers interested in hiring youths ages 16-21 for summer jobs. Companies are invited to attend and set up a booth at the Governor’s Annual Summer Youth Job Hunt Fair from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.Thursday, March 8 at Stargazers Theater, 10 S. Parkside Drive. There is no [...]
Continue reading …The Pikes Peak Workforce Center will open a satellite office in Fountain on June 15. The office will operate out of the Lorraine Center, run by the Fountain Fort Carson School District, which also houses a satellite office of the El Paso County Department of Human Services and is located at 301 E. Iowa in [...]
Continue reading …The Pikes Peak Workforce Center received a $75,000 grant from the Colorado Department of Labor to find out how the system can address workforce needs of the aerospace industry. The grant is part of a statewide initiative and will be used to identify the role the workforce system can play to help aerospace remain a [...]
Continue reading …As bad as the job market is for unemployed professionals in El Paso County, the situation is even worse for military veterans looking to enter the workforce. El Paso County is home to nearly 80,000 veterans, and last year 15,277 of them, or 19 percent, registered with the Pikes Peak Workforce Center for help finding [...]
Continue reading …Employers in El Paso and Teller counties facing possible layoffs can now take advantage of a new grant program offered through the Pikes Peak Workforce Center. The Incumbent Workers program provides grants for training so that companies can help their employees learn new skills or upgrade existing skills to ensure business competitiveness. Grant funds are [...]
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