CDO Workforce coordinates and focuses employment, training and education development resources across three counties, providing service to employed people, unemployed people and employers alike. Our goal is to improve the long-term growth and development of the work force.
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"Are you thinking of starting a business?
Join us for an informative webinar:
Empowerment: Roundtable of Otsego County Women Owned Businesses
Tuesday March 30th at 8:30 a.m. zoom virtual meeting
This is Free but you must pre-register.
Regional Women Leaders will discuss their adventure in owning their own business: how they got started, resources that they utilized to get their businesses off the ground, what they wish they had known first, and how they pivoted their business during the pandemic. Women owned businesses from all sectors: retail, marketing, manufacturing, consulting, food service, and tourism, will be represented.
Some of these businesses are well established and others just opened during the pandemic year. Diversified experiences that will inform you about how to move your own project forward, or ways you can pivot and grow your current business.
Join US whether you are a woman or not, we believe these Women can help you succeed."
Sign up for the roundtable today! When: Mar 30, 2021 08:30 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqdeqoqzgrH91Og-VdvypnP6OaCkG3uM6M
When: Friday, April 2, 2021
Where: Saputo Dairy USA Parking Lot
Interviews on site. No appointment required.
Call 607-832-5777 for more info.
Positions Available:
Read how the Workforce Development Board's American Apprenticeship Initiative (AAI) grant program is helping local businesses and residents mend the skills gap and jump-start great careers in manufacturing!
The program is available to residents and businesses located in the following New York counties: Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego, Otsego, Schuyler, St. Lawrence, Steuben, Tioga
and Tompkins.
When: 11:00am to 3:00pm
Where: Norwich CDO Workforce Parking Lot, 1 O'Hara Drive, Norwich, NY
Open Positions:
No appointment Required!
Call 607-334-5055 for more information
Our goal is to help job seekers not just find a job, but develop and manage a career. That means helping them when they have a job and when they are looking. We also strive to help employers find the workers they need quickly and the resources to improve training, workforce retention and workforce restructuring.
A DRC is a Disability Resource Coordinator, someone who helps individuals with disabilities find employment.
High School Equivalency (HSE/GED) A high school equivalency or GED/HSE is a recognized alternative to a high school diploma.
Work-Based Learning (WBL) provides students and job seekers with real-life work experience that compliments their academic studies. Typically they include job shadowing, mentoring, internships, and apprenticeships.
A Team Helper is anyone who is the lead support person to the job seeker with disabilities along their career journey. It can be a family member, friend, employment counselor, Disability Resource Coordinator (DRC), or case manager.
A stop-gap job is temporary employment until something better or more permanent can be obtained.
Basic needs refers to the goods and services necessary for a minimum standard of living. This includes access to food, safe shelter, clothing, and sanitation. Reliable transportation and education can also be considered a basic need.
A safe space is intended to be free of bias, conflict, criticism, or potentially threatening actions, ideas, or conversations.
Competitive integrated employment (CIE) is work performed by a person with an impairment or health-related disability (health impairment) within an integrated setting. Wages are at least minimum wage or higher and at a rate comparable to non-disabled workers performing the same tasks.
For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education.
