The Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board (3RWIB) has new funding to help unemployed vets in the region.

Source: Pittsburgh Business Times

A new initiative will aim to reduce the number of jobless veterans in the region by coordinating existing job services for veterans with companies looking to hire.

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A series of life-altering events — the kind that most people confront over an extended time — hit Cyndy Glynn all at once. Her position as director of marketing at a medical device company in Cleveland was eliminated. She moved back to Pittsburgh to take care of her ailing mother, who passed away shortly thereafter. Then, she was faced with the prospect of finding another job as her unemployment benefits ran out.

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

On Thursday, November 5 Auberle‘s Employment Institute will be named Community Based Program of the Year by Pennsylvania Juvenile Court Judge’s Commission. John Lydon, Auberle Chief Executive Officer, will attend the ceremony to accept the award. This distinction recognizes the life changing outcomes that Auberle’s workforce development programming is able to accomplish with juvenile court involved youth. While the program serves any youth ages 16-24, the Community Based Program of the Year award recognizes Auberle’s ability to help youth with significant barriers to educational attainment and successful employment.

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Through funding from 3RWIB, Smart Horizons Career Online Education to offer PIttsburgh residents the opportunity to earn high school diplomas and entry-level career certificates.

Source: The Bulletin

The Pittsburgh region is fortunate to have many passionate people and excellent programs and services available to help those looking for a job — from soft skills training and GED preparation to mock interviews and networking opportunities.

Source: PIttsburgh Post-Gazette

Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate was 5.3 percent in September, down a tenth of a percentage point from August, according to numbers released Friday by the U.S. Department of Labor and Industry.

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More than 12,000 Allegheny County residents last year exhausted their unemployment benefits, and about one-fourth of adult dislocated workers in the county are at risk of exhausting their benefits Looking to give job seekers a leg up, the Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board is working to bring a national program to Pittsburgh to help long-term unemployed residents reconnect to the workforce. Known as Platform to Employment, the program, which began in southwest Connecticut in 2011, has shown to be effective, getting between 80 percent and 90 percent of participants re-employed following the eight-week program. Pittsburgh will be the 15th city to adopt P2E.

Source: Pittsburgh Business Times

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Ask any employer, and they’ll tell you young people often have a big problem at job interviews. “They’re first time in a job interview situation. They’re new. They’re nervous. They don’t know how to behave,” says Vera Krofcheck with the 3 Rivers Workforce Investment Board, a non-profit that brings job-seekers together with employers.

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Interns from the summer Learn and Earn program are paying it forward in a way, helping other young people prepare for their first work experience.

Source: Pittsburgh Business Times

The longer you are unemployed, the harder it is to find a job, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board announced Thursday a program geared specifically to the long-term unemployed will soon be available in Pittsburgh.

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Caregiver training, retention and compensation are among the pressing issues facing a region that has among the highest percentages of elderly people in the country, health care experts said Thursday.

Source: Pittsburgh Business Times

What keeps Stephen Jackson up nights is how his decision to attend college may wind up hurting his mother.

Source: Pittsburgh Business Times

A troubling question plagued Kathy Clark this past spring: How do you find a job at 61 years old? Clark, a Squirrel Hill resident and former United Methodist Church pastor, lost her position as a charitable fundraiser in layoffs at a humanitarian aid organization. At first, with 36 years in nonprofit and faith-based sectors and two degrees, Clark felt optimistic she would find a comparable full-time position. Except that she didn't.

Source: Pittsburgh Tribune Review

As part of his work to combat the disparate effects of the “war on drugs,” Institute of the Black World founder Ron Daniels said he believes the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion program can impact Black crime and policing’s “broken relationship with the community.”

Source: New Pittsburgh Courier

It's the last week of the Learn and Earn program, and Anthony Zabiegalski, a producer at Simcoach Games, is prepping his 26 interns to test out a video game they helped build. Over the last six weeks, the interns have worked alongside developers and designers.

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In 2014, more than 1,300 young people applied for jobs in Pittsburgh’s Summer Youth Employment program, but there were only 500 positions available.

Source: Pittsburgh Business Times

What’s been dubbed “the sliver tsunami” is a national issue, with the oldest of the 75 million baby boomers — those born between 1946 and 1964 — set to turn 69 this year.

Source: Pittsburgh Business Times

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto said Tuesday that he gets “a little emotional” when he talks about the city’s summer employment program for teenagers and young adults.

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