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What is a One-Stop Career Center?
A One-Stop Career Center, or One-Stop Workforce Center, is a location where a wide range of employment, training, and career education program services are available to employers, workers, job seekers and youth.
One-Stop Workforce Centers leverage public workforce dollars with other state and local funding; business resources; and foundation support to provide career development services for local workers and deliver workforce solutions to local employers.
OppInc. One-Stop Workforce Centers offer a comprehensive range of services to help you find a job. Services provided through the Workforce Centers are funded through the U.S. Department of Labor so there's never a charge, although eligibility may apply for certain services. OppInc One-Stop Workforce Centers are members of the Virginia Workforce Network.
Who is Eligible to Receive Services?
Employers, workers and job seekers are customers of the one-stop career center. This includes businesses and industries, students, people with disabilities, veterans, TANF recipients, migrant and seasonal farm workers, unemployed, underemployed and employed individuals. Everyone can access the services of the Center free of charge.
For the worker or job seeker, there are three levels of services available through the Center and customers can move from one level to the next or receive services from more than one level, depending on their needs. The first level is core services, usually self-directed in nature, and available to everyone without any eligibility requirements.
Intensive services, as well as training and education are be available contingent on program eligibility and funding limitations. Additionally, customers may be able to receive support services such as childcare, transportation, etc.
What Services are Available?
Core Services for individuals:
- Orientation
- Work skills exploration
- Access to computers, internet telephones, fax and copy machines
- Searches for jobs and training
- Access to job banks and other listings of available jobs
- Résumé development assistance
- Job search training
- Networking skills workshops
- Interview techniques workshops
- Referral to an employer with current job openings
- Eligibility determinationfor additional services
Intensive Services for Individuals:
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Comprehensive assessments of skills and service needs
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Development of an individual employment and career plan
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Customized assessment of current skills
- Intensive career counseling
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In-depth interviewing skills development
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Computer workshops
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One-on-one assistance with résumés, cover letters and thank you letters
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Case management
Sample Training and Career Education Services for Individuals:
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Occupational skills training
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On-the job training
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Up to date work skills training
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Job readiness training
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Adult education and literacy
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Customized training for an employer who commits to hiring
Sample Services for Employers:
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Assistance in finding qualified workers
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Labor exchange
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Interview facilities
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Labor Market Information (LMI)
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Information on Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
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Information on and referral to business start-up, retention and expansion services
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Information on and referral to sources for developing customized training programs
- Rapid response to mass layoffs and plant closings
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Information about training incentives, such as, on-the-job training programs (based on worker eligibility)
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Information on tax credits for new hires
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Employment Workshops
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Workshop Calendar
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Please see our calendar in the upper left hand margin of each page (see above) for access to FREE OppInc workshops
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One Stop Forms
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ALL OF OUR DOWNLOADABLE FORMS ARE BEING REVISED TO MAKE THEM MORE USER-FRIENDLY PLEASE COME BACK SOON.
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ALL WORKSHOPS LISTED ON THE CALENDAR ARE CONDUCTED AT THE GLENROCK ROAD ONE-STOP, SEE BELOW.
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One-Stop Locations
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OppInc. One-Stop Workforce Center
Circle East Office Building
861 Glenrock Road, Suite 223
Norfolk, VA 23502
Phone: 757-461-7537
Fax: 757-461-6117
Flagship Workforce Center
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Suffolk Workforce Development Center
157 North Main Street
Suffolk, VA 23434
Phone: 757-514-7737
Satellite Center
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Regional Workforce Development Center
Paul D. Camp Community College
100 N. College Drive
Franklin, VA 23851
Phone: 757-569-6082
Satellite Center
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Hampton Roads SHARE Network
A SHARE Network Access Point, "SNAP", is a faith-based or community organization where people can go in their own neighborhoods or communities to look for jobs, assisted by trained individuals who connect them to the regional One-Stop system via computer and direct referrals. Specifically, SNAPS provide core services for self-directed job searches; refer customers to the One-Stop and supportive services as needed; publicize job search services in their communities and offer additional services as extra, in-kind support to job seekers.
Click here for a current listing of SNAP locations
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Do you live on the
Virginia Peninsula?
Then click here for the workforce center nearest you.
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