{"id":40652,"date":"2018-09-06T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=40652"},"modified":"2018-09-06T11:52:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T15:52:18","slug":"career-link-extends-office-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=40652","title":{"rendered":"Career Link extends office hours"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>EXTON \u2014 Beginning on September 12th<\/sup>, the PA CareerLink\u00ae – Chester County office will offer expanded hours for customers on the second and fourth Wednesday of the month.\u00a0 On these days, the center will remain open until 7:00 p.m. for access to services including the Welcome Center, workshops like CPR\/AED certification and soft skills training, and events like job fairs, employer panels, seasonal hiring fairs and the United Way Financial Stability Center budgeting workshop.<\/p>\n

In addition to job seeker information, workshops and events, PA CareerLink\u00ae – Chester County is a \u201cone stop shop\u201d where job seekers and employers can share access to a wide array of job training, education and employment services.\u00a0\u00a0 The organization\u2019s Welcome Center provides an orientation service for customers to create a tailor-made assessment for basic career, individualized career and employment support services; and it helps to determine program eligibility and career pathway plans for County residents.<\/p>\n

Walter Urban, Jr., Site Administrator for PA CareerLink\u00ae – Chester County, said: \u201cLast year, we had more than 18,600 visitors come through the doors of the center, with 2,300 people attending workshops and 2,100 people participating in the Welcome Center orientation service.\u00a0 By extending our hours on the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month we can offer valuable services to even more Chester County residents who have previously been unable to participate because of daytime commitments.\u201d<\/p>\n

Workshops and events tentatively scheduled during the extended hours in the coming months include:<\/p>\n

September 12th\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/sup>CPR\/AED Certification Training and Office of Vocational Rehabilitation \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Community Orientation<\/p>\n

September 26th<\/sup> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Employer Panel for Job Seekers<\/p>\n

October 10th<\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Customer Service Job Fair<\/p>\n

October 24th<\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Seasonal Hiring Fair<\/p>\n

November 14th<\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Soft Skills Training Workshop<\/p>\n

November 28th<\/sup> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 United Way Financial Stability Center Budgeting Workshop<\/p>\n

PA CareerLink\u00ae – Chester County is located at 479 Thomas Jones Way, Suite 500 in Exton. For more information about the center\u2019s programs and services go to www.pacareerlinkchesco.org<\/a> \u00a0or call 610-280-1010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EXTON \u2014 Beginning on September 12th, the PA CareerLink\u00ae – Chester County office will offer expanded hours for customers on the second and fourth Wednesday of the month.\u00a0 On these days, the center will remain open until 7:00 p.m. for access to services including the Welcome Center, workshops like CPR\/AED certification and soft skills training, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11532,29],"class_list":["post-40652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-career-link","tag-chester-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40653,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40652\/revisions\/40653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}