Career Gateway Project and website

Posted by on January 23, 2012

By way of introduction, my name is Pamela Jacob and I am Program Manager of the Career Gateway Project at JEVS Human Services. Please be sure to check out the JEVS Human Services’ FREE online Job Seekers Guide at GatewayToCareers.com! The Gateway Project Job Seekers Guide is a FREE resource for the community that provides an array of various career management tips and exercises. We have used this online resource with job seekers at all educational levels and in various life circumstances. Be sure to share it with friends, colleagues, students, and family!

Funded by the Department of Labor, the Gateway Project is a national program designed to increase community access to jobs through online career exploration. JEVS Human Services of Philadelphia has created a customized version of this guide for the State of Pennsylvania.

In view of the fact that our mission is to enhance the community’s capacity to access online vocational tools, it is our hope that you and your staff provide the GatewayToCareers.com website to clients and contacts as FREE career management resource. Again, since this is a national pilot program, anyone is able to log on to the GatewayToCareers.com website by inputting their email address and zip code. Users with a Pennsylvania zip code will be directed to the JEVS Philadelphia version of the Job Seekers’ Guide, while users outside the state of Pennsylvania will be directed to the IAJVS or local affiliate website. Career Gateway Job Seekers Guides have also been customized for the following areas: Los Angeles (CA), San Francisco (CA), Boston (MA), Chicago (IL), Louisville (KY), East Orange (NJ), New York (NY), Minneapolis (MO).  For more information about JEVS Human Services, please visit: http://www.jevshumanservices.org.

As a reminder, the Gateway Project offers two FREE online resources available to the community:

·         GatewayToCareers.com Job Seekers’ Guide  – general guide for career management and job search – available now

·         Gateway Project’s Healthcare Virtual Career Network (VCN) – healthcare industry related career management tool – available Winter 2012 through the GatewayToCareers.com website

Please feel free to pass along my contact information to your staff, colleagues, and any other organization(s) that may benefit from these free online resources. Attached are flyers for your convenience. Please share these flyers with your community. Additionally, if you want to obtain the website badge/HTML code to link your organizations directly to the Career Gateway Job Seekers Guide (click here) and please contact me directly at 215-854-1852. For local agencies, our staff would be happy to provide a free product demonstration on the various benefits of the Gateway Project program and/or provide workshops to clients/students in a computer lab setting. If you are unable to provide a computer lab setting, please contact me directly to discuss some additional options for your participants.

Please let me know about any opportunities for us to connect your organization to the Gateway Project. I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Pamela B. Jacob, Program Manager
Gateway Project – JEVS Human Services
Office: 215.854.1852 / Email: pamela.jacob@jevs.org