JobLink Career Centers provide employment, education, and training services under a single "One-Stop" delivery system. JobLink Career Centers are designed to provide individuals with the resources and assistance needed to make good decisions about their career training and employment needs. The four key principles for all JobLink Career Centers are…universality…customer choice…integration of services…and…outcome based measures.

The advantages of the JobLink Career Centers are… a single place to address employment and training needs… local workforce development professionals from various partner agencies working together to provide the best possible service…a more convenient, efficient, and effective way for all North Carolinians to look for a new or better job…and a place where customers are the first priority.

JobLink Career Centers offer comprehensive training and employment services to the community. To the employer, the JobLink Career Center offers the opportunity to recruit qualified workers at one location. Employer benefits include recruitment assistance, team approach to filling job orders, a clearinghouse for training information including apprenticeship programs, customized training, upgrade training, and workplace literacy, tax credit information and hiring incentives, unemployment insurance information, labor market information services, and rapid response information in cases of plant layoffs or plant closures. The JobLink Career Center provides job seekers a single place to address their employment and training needs. Job seekers services include:

· Assessment
· Career information/development
· Job search training
· Resume preparation
· Interview preparation
· Job application assistance
· Job placement services for persons with disabilities
· Support services
· Information and referrals
· School-to-work connections
· Unemployment insurance information
· Financial eligibility/sponsorship determination
· Labor market information
· Occupational/literacy training

Services are provided through a wide range of service options from self-service to full-service.

• To the Employer
  Division of Employment & Training
   
• Rapid Response
  
  Rapid Response Services (Dislocated Workers ONLY)
   
  Rapid Response activities are provided to enable Dislocated Workers to transition to new employment  as quickly as possible, following either a permanent closure or mass layoff. These services are provided through the North Carolina Worker Unit, located in the Division of Employment and Training, North Carolina Department of Commerce. This unit establishes the rapid response team which meets with affected businesses to outline service options available to displaced workers.
   
  Rapid Response activities, as defined in the Workforce Investment Act Final Rules, Section 665 Subpart C, include but are not limited to:
   
  1. On-site contact with employers, representatives of the affected workers and the local community;
   
  2. Assistance with application for Unemployment Insurance;
   
  3. Job search workshops;
   
  4. Referral of affected workers to appropriate short- and long- term resources for finding new jobs and/or upgrading their skills.

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