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How
Will YOU Get Ahead? - JobLink!
Do YOU have employers and individuals looking for the right place to meet their needs? If so, look no further. The Centralina Workforce Development Board can help! Our state of the art JobLink display banners are now available to direct citizens and business to the source for jobs, training, and business services. For more information on how to exhibit a JobLink Career Center banner at your office, chamber, library, college or school, please contact David Hollars at 704.348.2717 or dhollars@centralina.org.
Left to Right: Melanie O'Connell Underwood, Jim Hadden, Jan Comer, Mark Brady, David Hollars, Bill Thunberg, and Dan Wallace. Efforts
Continue to Assist Persons with Disabilities
Vocational Rehabilitation Awarded Grant Extension
"Lincoln
County Works Job Fair" Really Does Work!
The Lincoln County JobLink Career Center sponsored a countywide job fair on Wednesday July 13, 2005 at the Betty G. Ross Park Gym in Lincolnton. It was an exciting start to a productive event as 120 applicants crowded the job fair during the first hour. The gym comfortably held 23 employers who were actively seeking potential employees. Employers participating included Alpharma, Wireway Husky, La-Z-Boy, Lee Boy, City of Lincolnton, Bosch, Cochrane, Mohican, Lincoln Medical, Timken, R-Anell, AccuForce, AFLAC, Avon, Product Action, Barrett, Lincoln County Schools, P C Homes, Lincoln Staffing, Mega Force, Trans Tech, Adecco, and Food Lion. JobLink Manager Judi Morton commented that many employers expressed their satisfaction with the event and looked forward to participating next year. The Lincoln County JobLink Career Center Job Fair would not have been made possible without the assistance of all the wonderful Lincoln County JobLink Partners. A special thanks to Nora McIntyre - Goodwill, Laurel Morrow and Judy Rice - Gaston College, Beverly Gilbert - Cataler, Norma Heller - Timken, Susan Eurey - Barrett Business Services, Ann Wilson and Brandy Moss - Adecco, and Amy Chapman - Alpharma for their help with the job fair. For more information on the Lincoln County JobLink Career Center and the services it provides visit www.lincolnjoblink.com or call 704.735.8035.
The Timken Company was one of 23 employers who were looking for workers at the July Job Fair in Lincolnton, NC., sponsored by the Lincoln County Joblink Career Center. Keeping You Posted… The Latest from Around the Region
Carolina Auction Academy School of Auctioneering at Stanly Community College's Crutchfield Campus in Locust, NC. |
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Services Coordinator Joins Centralina WDB Team
Vail is originally from Lumberton, North Carolina but has lived in Charlotte for 33 years and briefly in Cabarrus County. Vail has been married to his high school sweetheart, Wanda, for 31 years and they have one daughter, Candice. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a degree in Business Administration and a concentration in marketing. While in college, Vail led a team of students that developed the first formal marketing plan for the former Charlotte Motor Speedway. He was inducted into the UNC-Charlotte Alumni Hall of Fame in 1994. Vail has a varied background ranging from work with business and financial services, non-profits, and state government. He has also spent a significant amount of time serving as a volunteer on many committees and boards which include, the U.S. Small Business Administration Advisory Council for North Carolina, the Charlotte Common Ground Committee, Housing Authority Commissioner, and community volunteer with various charities. His interests include collecting oral histories and genealogy, backpacking and running. He is currently training to run his fifth marathon. To contact Vail Carter, please call 704.348.2710 or send him an e-mail at vcarter@centralina.org.
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Local
partners recently unveiled the new
The
Carolina
Auction Academy School of Auctioneering will begin its first classes
this fall at Stanly Community College's Crutchfield Campus in Locust.
Bid calling, negotiations, public speaking, advertising, and auctioneer
math are only a few of the subjects that will be included in the comprehensive
course. Stanly Community College is one of three community colleges
in North Carolina that offers the academy. For more information visit
The
Centralina Workforce Development Board is pleased to welcome Mr. Vail
Carter as the new Business Services Coordinator for the Centralina region.
Vail will be serving as a liaison between the Centralina Workforce Development
Board, JobLink Career Centers, and local businesses. He will also handle
all aspects of the Incumbent Workforce Development Program.
It
has been quite a summer so far at The Resource Development Center
in Albemarle. The Stanly County Youth Life Path Program has provided
exciting opportunities for young adults to gain summer work experience
during the entire month of July. Individuals have been on a journey
to adulthood by interning at local businesses including the United
Way, YMCA, Stanly County Chamber of Commerce, Albemarle High School,
North Stanly High School, Badin School, Stanly County Partnership
for Children, Save Our Students (SOS), All Star Learning Center,
Quality Daycare, Stanly County Department of Social Services,
and many more. As the work experience opportunity comes to an
end, the 
"Pathway
to Success" program is gearing up to begin. During the week
of August 8-12, 2005, young adults in the Stanly Life Path Program
will participate in a five- day workshop that will communicate
principles to transform old mindsets and assist them in becoming
the success in life they were created to be. Facilitator Bill
Baldwin will lead youth to recognize successes in their lives,
the power of positive relationships, the power of a vision and
how to set goals, surrounding yourself with successful people
and then taking action. The week will conclude with a session
titled "Come As You Will Be In 2015." Young adults will
dress in their very best and act as if their dreams have already
come true ten years from now. 
The
North Carolina Workforce Development Training Center is offering
an interactive and fact-filled one-day workshop for individuals
who work with youth. The session will take you from a clear understanding
of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) requirements to the development
of your own action plan to energize your program. The overall
focus is on the elements of an effective, results oriented program
and specific tools for day-to-day implementation. Mr. Eric Rowles,
Senior Director of Training & Consulting for the Youth Leadership
Institute, will lead the training workshop. Three one-day sessions
will be offered at the following locations and on the following
dates:
