Hi all, My husband would like to share with laid-off techies about the Workforce Investment Act (WIA). This is an opportunity to get government funding for your computer training and/or certification.
-adalita > If you are a laid off developer such as myself :-(, or a techie in general, >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 > > The 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 $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, > which they sort of are now... FYI Strategic Technologies is the official Sun > training vendor here. They also do training for HP, Veritas, BMC & FileNET. > You are not limited to using WIA funds on them, however. For a complete list > of approved training providers, 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 screener 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, for example. Still, take a look/see to find out if you qualify. > > If you are interested in training at Strategic Technologies, my contacts > there are Trish Witek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and Marc Sodano > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Please be sure to tell them how you heard about >it. > If you have any other questions, I've added a section to help people at my > personal site: > > home.earthlink.net/~pathogen > (Click on the WIA link) > > Ciao, Dev -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
