There is nothing better than visualizing possibilities for one’s future. This is especially true if you are about to launch into the professional career pool—like Alaska Job Corps students. Over the last weeks, students have been fully participating in the annual...
ALASKA JOB CORPS ADDS “RED CARD” SUPPLEMENTAL CERTIFICATION
There are now many new Red Card holders in the State of Alaska and they received their certification at the Alaska Job Corps. This is a supplemental tool in the Alaska Job Corps students’ toolbox. The primary goal of Alaska Job Corps is to train and place students...
Safety Today Secures Tomorrow at the Alaska Job Corps Center
The Alaska Job Corps Center does not take safety for granted. Their program is far more comprehensive than the standard safety program focusing on standard trips and falls. And that is why the Alaska Job Corps leads the way as a center with a strong safety culture....
From “Nothing to Everything” in less than 2 years
Andrew Bruketta is leaving the Alaska Job Corps for a job. And it isn’t just any old job. It is a highly skilled position, with excellent benefits, leave and expected to pay well over 60,000 a year. Andrew says frankly that Job Corps is whatever you make it. “Just...
Alaska Job Corps Students Serve The Homeless
It looked like a ski lodge at first, with people sitting on chairs and benches and wearing their parkas and hats. Nearly two feet of fresh snow surrounded the building. But missing from the ski lodge portrait was the fancy gear and bright colors. In fact some of the...
First Workforce Summit brings Crowd to Alaska Job Corps
Amazing Workforce Summit at Alaska Job Corps Center “How did you get so many employers to this function?” was the frequently asked question at the Alaska Job Corps Workforce Summit on November 17. The full size basketball court was packed with CEO’s, managing...
Alaska Job Corps Promotes Non-Violence in Life, Home, Work and on Street Corners
It was the International Day of Peace of September 21. On the evening news you saw violence escalate in Charlotte, killings in Texas, assaults in Paris, weekend explosions in New York City; an air raid in Greece and hundreds of migrants, dying at sea while trying...
Alaska Job Corps Students Welcome Senators’ Donated Books from Library of Congress
Thanks to Senator Murkowski, Alaska Job Corps is now enjoying a lot more reading material. There is no well stocked library at the Alaska Job Corps Center. But there are little collections of books in classrooms, dorm atriums, and in offices. Books are a precious...
Careers and Mountains are Lifetime Climbs.
The Alaska Job Corps program is more than a daily eight hour training program, five days a week. Both after class and on weekends, students continue to participate in leisure time activities with a purpose. Last weekend several students joined AKJCC Career Prep...
“Without a doubt, I’m 100% proof of Job Corps’ Success”
Twenty-two years ago Glenn Evans was a student at the Alaska Job Corps. This afternoon he was a mentor at the Alaska Job Corps for 75 students in the hard hat trades. Glenn is a successful business man, working for Columbia Hydronics Company. He started his career in...
Careers Begin Here: Alaska Job Corps Center teaches Students to See Future Opportunities
Sometimes it is just ‘a way of looking at things’, which will actually expand and change one’s perspective. At the Alaska Job Corps, students are taught to look beyond the immediate horizon. They’re encouraged to investigate various options and side pathways....
Alaska Job Corps students show that public service isn’t always a Flashy Selfie; sometimes you just have to put your boots on.
Alaska Job Corps students were doing public service, after the training day, for an elder with a goat farm. The students learned from the elder, helped with the goats and helped fix the fences. Public service isn’t always a flashy public effort. Sometimes it is just...
Alaska Job Corps Serves at Regional Economic Development Forum
The Alaska Job Corps Culinary Arts Class and Chef Williams prepared and served the luncheon at the June 27th Economic Development Workshop, hosted by Mat Su Borough Manager John Moosey. In addition to the State Economist, there were movers and shakers from all cities,...
Alaska Job Corps Preps New Behavior Management System
Alaska Job Corps Center is preparing for the New Behavior Management System. Both staff and students are being trained in the specifics which will be defined as a Level 1, Level 2 or minor infractions. Beefing up the Job Corps disciplinary system is a reflection of...
Alaska Job Corps Center Embraces Challenges of Last Great Race
On March 6th, the Alaska Job Corps Center did not stand passively by as the 85 dog teams raced to Nome, during the 2016 Iditarod’s running of the Last Great Race. Instead, they were at the starting line in Willow Alaska. Students and recreation staff cheered,...
Job Corps Graduates already Employed and More to Come
The gym was full and there were no more chairs. Or bleachers. Or standing room. The place was jam packed on Friday, Feb 26 when 57 students graduated at the Alaska Job Corps in Palmer. Community leaders, friends, family, alumni, colleagues, employers and staff watched...
Alaska Job Corps Recognizes Civil Rights Leader
Alaska Job Corps students partnered up with students from the University of Alaska's Mat Su College to celebrate and recognize civil and human rights on Elizabeth Peratrovich Day. Y2Y students and many Job Corps students participated in the tours, films and round...
Alaska Job Corps students graduate into High Paying and Long Term Careers In Water Management
At nearly any Water plant in the State of Alaska, you will see former Job Corps students. The Job Corps Water/Waste Water program has graduated dozens and dozens of certified students, whom have sat successfully for their State Boards and gone on to high paying and...
Job Corps Student Success reflected at Community Relations Council
Last week at the Alaska Job Corps' Community Relations Council, nearly 40 guests gathered to focus on the Job Corps program. The Culinary Arts class prepared special dishes from Celebrity Chef Suzette Lord Welton's cookbook entitiled "Suzette's Alaskan Cooking." The...
Alaska Job Corps students do well in Advanced Employment Training
Alaska Job Corps offers nine career trades and specializes in preparing young adults to be trained to work force needs. Last week three Job Corps college students were applauded by the professor of Refrigeration and Heating Technology. Daniel Mielke wrote that the...