by Chris Rippee, Career Counselor, JFCS Career Development Center Finding a job is rarely easy, but when you are foreign-born, the process can be even more challenging. Many immigrants and refugees struggle to find meaningful work as they adapt to American workforce culture. For more than 5 years, the Refugee…Read More
Category: Career & Outplacement Services
WorkLaunch 2019 is coming!
WorkLaunch is an annual series of work readiness events held each spring by JFCS Career Development Center in partnership with Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Each year WorkLaunch evolves its event offerings to meet the needs of the changing regional workforce. This year events will take place from March 21st through…Read More
Re-energize your job search with JFCS Career Development Center!
Now is not the time to get the winter blues! JFCS Career Development Center has workshops, career fairs and presentations abound, all focused on sharpening job seeking skills. You can charge up your job search now! In January the 4-part series “A New Year! A New Career!” drew CDC clients…Read More
JFCS South Hills Career Fair
About 40 eager job seekers attended the JFCS Career Development Center’s South Hills Career Fair on January 24th. Once again we partnered with Dress for Success beforehand so that job applicants could attend looking professional and ready to work. Employers' personnel recruiters who attend these career fairs often comment on…Read More