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Need to get your GED?
We can help!
Call the Career Center at 413.774.4361
or check out The Literacy Project
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We need two things to get a job: Education and Skills.
Get Smart
It's NO lie, You NEED Skills to earn the bucks!
Don't be fooled! Education is the key! Earning a high school diploma will open up the job market. Employers want their employees to have at least a basic education! Finding a job without completion of basic education can prove difficult.
If you're STILL in School, STAY in School, and read High School Not For You?
Need to get your GED? GET IT NOW!
Call the Career Center at 413.774.4361 to set up an intake and assessment. There are a several wonderful Adult Basic Education Centers in both Franklin and Hampshire counties.
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Get Skills
Skills can be gained through education & training, volunteering, internships, apprenticeships, education, and employment.
Education & Training
Greenfield Community College
Holyoke Comminity College
Springfield Technical Community College
Volunteering
Senior centers
Neighbors
Libraries
Animal Shelters
Youth Serving Agencies/Camps
Church groups
Non-profit agencies
Internships
Unpaid Internships are a great way to get your foot in the door of an agency or business that you might like to work for. It's an opportunity to demonstrate that you have the potential to be an excellent employee. Once you're there, it might be hard to for your boss to let you go. They might discover a need to hire you. Also provides a great job reference.
Apprenticeships
Apprenticeships are training programs in a trade, art or business designed over a specific period of time. Check out the unions in Western Massachusetts.
Jobs
Every job you'll ever have will give you skills. They can be soft skills, like working with people, conflict management, project management, or they can be hard skills like cooking, laying brick, designing a website, planting a garden. A job also provides the opportunity for an excellent reference. Leaving your job well will ensure that!
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