Hi all, OK, at the risk of being labeled a spammer by my fellow Juggers [or is it Juggies ;-) ], I am going to repost some information I posted a while back on the Workforce Investment Act (WIA). The last posting received 0.0% response rate which frankly floored me as I know for a fact I am not the only laid-off developer in the JUG. Free money for training? Seems like a "no-brainer" to me...
>>>Repost<<< If you are a laid off developer, such as myself :-(, you might want to take the opportunity to get some professional training via the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) to enhance your r�sum�: Here is the "official" scoop on it: http://www.joblinkcc.com/capitalarea/workforce_investment_act_program.htm http://www.ncesc.com/individual/training/trainingmain.asp Since all that is hard to digest, I've added a section on my site to help you through the process. You can find it here (click on the WIA link): http://home.earthlink.net/~pathogen The long & short of it is the state has a federally-funded program to provide training funds for people such as ourselves, along with other classes of workers. You can get up to -->$4000<-- to take training on various technologies. I know someone who used it to get training so as to become Cisco-certified. I have been working with Strategic Technologies in Cary (www.stratech.com) for some time to convince them they should be on the list of approved trainers. FYI, Strategic Technologies is the official Sun training vendor here, which should be of interest to fellow Java Developers... They also do training for HP, Veritas, BMC & FileNET if you are interested. You are not limited to using WIA funds on them, however. For a complete list of approved training providers and their programs, go to www.ncstars.org, click Public Access/Search NC STARS Programs then click Raleigh on the map and "Submit" as is on the next page. Then just look on the popup list on the page after that. Basically, you go to the ESC office, bringing a lot of documentation, fill out a LOT of paperwork, wait until you are called by a WIA Case Manager for an interview, then wait to see if your application forwarded to Raleigh is approved by the Capital Board. Once approved, you get a voucher which you give to the training provider to pay for your course. Note, you can't just have been laid off. You have to prove you have been looking for work quite some time and been unsuccessful, for example. Still, take a look/see to find out if you qualify. If you have any other questions, I'll be happy to answer the best I can but hopefully my site can answer most of those. Good luck! >>>End Repost<<< One final note. I have asked Greg to put this on next month's JUG business agenda for a brief mention. If you are for or against doing this, perhaps you should say so here... Regards, Dev -- Dev Brown Morrisville, NC USA "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy _______________________________________________ Juglist mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://trijug.org/mailman/listinfo/juglist_trijug.org
