San Diego Job Corps graduates Christian Soto, Shelby Bruce, Louis Zimmerman, and Luis Acosta recently spoke about their careers at Bill Howe Plumbing’s new headquarters in Kearny Mesa. Three completed Job Corps’ Plumbing Career Technical Training program, and one completed the Electrical program. They work in the plumbing, electrical, and restoration and flood services departments at the company’s new headquarters in [...]
San Diego Job Corps graduate David Martinez, who will soon be graduating from Southwestern College, has been selected to attend a 10-week summer internship starting in June with the Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP) at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. David was one of 19 students chosen by the faculty of the Boyce Thompson [...]
San Diego Job Corps’ gold medal winning student Edwin Rodriguez will compete in the Skills USA National Contest in Kansas City, Missouri in June. The 24 year old from Chula Vista is enrolled in Job Corps’ Electrical Career Technical Training Program and will be graduating this summer. “I’ve been in the Electrical trade since last [...]
Kenneth C. Smith, Assistant Field Office Director for ICE Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) San Diego, spoke with Job Corps’ Homeland Security cadets on March 14, 2013 at the San Diego Center. Smith is responsible for the ICE ERO San Diego’s Congressional Affairs, Community Outreach, and Freedom of Information Act requests in the San Diego region. [...]
“I’m very familiar with the Red Cross as I was a lifeguard for them before entering Job Corps,” advised San Diego Job Corps student Ashley Brown. Brown is enrolled in the center’s Medical Administrative Assistant Career Technical Training program and volunteered at the center’s Red Cross Blood Drive on February 26, 2013. “Helping to save [...]
“I attended Job Corps’ Community Relations Council meeting last October and learned about their Work Based Learning Program,” advised Kathleen VonAchen, Administrative Services Director for the City of Imperial Beach, California. “I heard others praise the students who were interning at their offices, and pursued having an intern help at City Hall.” VonAchen, a native [...]
“I was working at minimum wage jobs in Riverside, California and didn’t see a future in any of those jobs,” advised 20 year old San Diego Job Corps graduate Travon Scaife. “I looked at Job Corps as a stepping stone in finding a career I could advance in. Enrolling there last year turned out to [...]
San Diego Job Corps graduate Clarence Washington recently received his Completion of Apprenticeship at the Bricklayers And Allied Craftworkers Local 4 of Southern California’s office in La Mesa, CA. Washington graduated in 2008 after completing Job Corps’ Bricklaying Career Technical Training Program, and immediately began work as a first period apprenticeship. “Clarence was a good [...]
“Jorge is a perfect fit for our company,” advised Pat Hutchins, co-owner of Hutchins Realty in Imperial Beach, CA. “He’s smart, hard-working, able to multi-task, and in only a few months has become an asset to our company.” Mrs. Hutchins’s newest employee is recent San Diego Job Corps graduate Jorge Gomez, who she first met [...]
“This was totally unexpected,” advised 23 year old San Diego Job Corps student Joshua Andrus, who won a gold medal on February 2, 2013 at the Skills USA Region 6 Competition in San Bernardino, CA. Andrus is enrolled in Job Corps’ Electrical Career Technical Training program and plans on pursuing a career in the electrical [...]