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Career Services Specialists

Every Adult Education program has a Career Services Specialist to serve as a support and resource to all students. Career Services Specialists provide career advice, guidance, and college transition support services to help students achieve their goals. Career Services Specialists also:

RECRUIT Students:

  • Community events; job fairs; career fairs, and career related collegiate events
  • Establish relationships and develop employer engagement for students
  • Conduct learning needs assessments
  • Provide goals discussion and career interest testing

RETAIN Students:

  • Consistent updated student contact information for better services
  • Connect students to community services to help with personal difficulties
  • Employer guest speakers in adult education classes for employment opportunities
  • Strong communication with Instructors for program graduation

RESULTS for Students:

  • Goal setting for High School Equivalency and job attainment
  • Apprenticeship opportunities
  • Instructor engagement for program understanding
  • Resume’ creation and interviewing skills readiness

REFER Students:

  • To college and/or careers
  • Financial Aid options
  • Labor Market Information and “next steps” guidance
  • Social Services, Corrections, DECAL, WIOA, Medicaid and SNAP E&T partnerships

Online Career Services Links

View Online Career Services Links

Core Partner Resources

  • Childcare and Parent Services (CAPS): The CAPS program supports early education goals by assisting low-income families with the cost of child care while they work, go to school or training, or participate in other work-related activities. https://caps.decal.ga.gov/en/

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  • Department of Early Care and Learning (DECAL): is responsible for meeting the child care and early education needs of Georgia’s children and their families. It administers the nationally recognized Georgia’s Pre-K Program, licenses child care centers and home-based child care, administers Georgia’s Childcare and Parent Services (CAPS) program, federal nutrition programs, and manages Quality Rated, Georgia’s community powered child care rating system. http://www.decal.ga.gov/

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  • Find Help Georgia: Find Help Georgia is provided by the State of Georgia and its partners. Help Seekers can use it to find services by zip code and providers can create an account to add their services to the website and keep them updated. https://findhelpga.org/

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  • Georgia Department of Labor (GDOL): GDOL matches qualified job seekers with employers and collects data to help businesses, economic developers, planners, and the workforce make quality work-related decisions. From offering the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, which provides substantial tax benefit to employers who hire eligible workers, to administering the Unemployment Insurance system that supports the financial security of those temporarily out of work, DOL works to grow the economy and workers’ positions within it. https://dol.georgia.gov/

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  • Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency: The Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) Program helps eligible individuals with physical and/or mental disabilities obtain and/or maintain employment in a competitive integrated work site. https://gvs.georgia.gov/

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  • Unite Us: Unite Us helps healthcare and social care organizations collaborate to help people get the support they need to live healthier. https://uniteus.com/ 

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  • WorkSource Georgia: This site is a resource for local workforce development boards, training providers, and grant opportunities. https://www.tcsg.edu/worksource/

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  • WorkSource Georgia Portal: The portal is a website where job seekers can search for jobs by key words or location and employers can post a job opening, learn about labor market information, and access recruitment services.  https://www.worksourcegaportal.com/vosnet/Default.aspx


Training

Training for Career Services Specialists is conducted via Adult Education’s Blackboard Learning Management System, https://adultedgo.blackboard.com. Career Services training is held and posted under the “Career Services Training” organization, which is available for self-enrollment for all OAE-funded Adult Education program personnel with an AdultEdGo Blackboard account. Contact your Blackboard sub-administrator if you need enrollment assistance.

This course contains resources, recordings and materials from live training sessions, which are also held through this organization.

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