Over the past year, Ricardo Blake had utilized services from several different staffing companies performing a variety of temporary jobs in the Mooresville, NC area. Many of these jobs included manufacturing assignments at various sites. In February 2016, Blake stepped... Read more →
Ashley Durant, Iredell County Job Seeker Gets a Second Chance “I only came into the NCWorks Career Center-Mooresville, one time. The same day I came in, my resume was redone and I got the job immediately after fixing it.” This... Read more →
Jody Yearwood was a job seeker who just moved to the Charlotte area from New Jersey with her husband and children. Being new to North Carolina not knowing the area and being out of work for four years, she wanted... Read more →
On Wednesday, May 10, 2017, Khaleel Mangum, Centralina NEXGEN Customer from I-CARE, Inc. , opened the Centralina Council of Government's Board of Delegates Meeting sharing his journey using the Centralina Workforce Development Board's NEXGEN Services. Mangum established goals to learn... Read more →
The month of April has been a great month for career seekers and employers in the Centralina region. The Centralina Workforce Development Board and Centralina Workforce Services held three major career fairs in Stanly, Rowan, and Union counties. On Thursday,... Read more →
Dennis Jenkins relocated from California seeking opportunities previously denied due to a lack of experience and the extremely high tuition cost to enroll in Electrical Lineman training. Shortly after the transition to North Carolina, Dennis was involved in a car... Read more →
Keyairrah Price enrolled in Centralina WDB funded WIOA NexGen Services November 8, 2016 at the Resource Development Center (RDC) in Stanly County. Prior to enrolling, Keyairrah moved from Delaware with family not really knowing what North Carolina was going to... Read more →
Talent Development and Employer Pipeline Initiative Producing Qualified Workers Continues to Transform Lives in North Carolina “My life has really turned around since I started working at Carolina Beverage upon graduating from the North Carolina Manufacturing Institute (NCMI). My national... Read more →
“I came to the NCWorks Career Center-Lincoln to look for a job because I just lost my job as a deputy clerk and one of the talent development consultants told me there was a manufacturing boot camp going on and... Read more →
“Before the North Carolina Manufacturing Institute, the best job I could find was serving tables,” said Jason Nance, recent graduate of the NCMI. For a while he was with Darden restaurant for ten years in which it was only enough... Read more →