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Where the Jobs Are
State's ‘one-stop' job centers help businesses, workers get better acquainted
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Business New Haven
8/6/2001
By:
Linda Mele
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Are you an individual looking for a job? Or perhaps you're a business owner looking for new employees. If so, your first stop should be one of the state's 18 Connecticut Works One-Stop Centers for individuals or Regional Business Services Units that share space with the Works centers in eight cities throughout the state.
Revamped in 1995, most of the centers now feature the latest technology and, today, are light years away from the old unemployment offices the state previously operated.
In Hamden, for example, individuals and businesses can take advantage of a host of no-cost services created especially to help individuals find jobs or training programs and for businesses to find no- or low-cost services to aid in their search for workers.
Individuals can find information on things that affect them such as unemployment claims appeals, apprenticeship programs, employee training partnerships, résumé writing, free workshops and just about everything in-between.
Meanwhile, employers can find information on programs such as customized job training, tax credits, job fairs, the state's automated Job Bank systems and labor markets, according to state Department of Labor (DOL) spokeswoman Nancy Steffens.
A no-cost service to businesses includes Connecticut's Job Bank, an online résumé-access service currently housing more than 5,000 active résumés statewide.
It also automatically links to America's Job Bank, a nationwide database with access to more than 500,000 active employment seekers across the country.
State DOL One-Stop Career Centers in the New Haven Area
- Ansonia: 203-736-1059
- Hamden: 203-789-6582 (individual workers)
- Hamden: 203-789-7683 (Business Services Unit)
- Meriden: 203-238-6148
- Middletown: 860-344-2661
For a list of offices located elsewhere in the state, call the DOL at 860-263-6535.
To learn more about applying to the Connecticut Jobs Center or to identify individuals who have completed the program, call Job Corps New England Outreach, Admission and Placement at 1-800-972-3446.
For those with Internet access who wish to check things out ahead of time, the following sites are a good place to start:
- www.ctdol.state.ct.us
- www.sbia.com
- www.ctjobfairs.com
- www.mact.org
- www.ctdol.state.ct.us/ctworks/newhavenfacts.htm
- www.ctdol.state.ct.us/hamden/hamdfacts.htm
- www.ctdol.state.ct.us/rwdb/direct-newhaven.htm
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