Job Seeker Services

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Oahu WorkLinks Services - for All Jobseekers:
✓  Access to job bank websites
✓  Career guidance and support learning about job skills requirements
✓  Job Seeker Workshops
✓  Access to photocopier, telephones, message center, fax, and assistive technology computer
✓  Library learning center

In addition, there are services just for those who meet these criteria:

✓  You have been laid-off and you are receiving or eligible for unemployment insurance benefits,

✓  or you meet income eligibility guidelines based on your family's income for the past year.

Services include all of the above Oahu WorkLinks services plus -- guidance to services available from our partner programs and tuition assistance for enrollment in approved training programs for high-demand occupations

 

 

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NOTE:  The services above, are part of the federal "Workforce Investment Act of 1998."  In this Act, the federal government organizes these services into separate categories.  Here are brief descriptions of those categories along with related grants the Board is currently involved with:

 

Workforce Investment Act Adult Program

Unemployed adults (age 18+) from low-income families and employed adults who have not achieved self-sufficiency are eligible for training services, in addition to career counseling, case management, and employment and support services.

 

Workforce Investment Act Dislocated Worker Program

People who are laid off as a result of business closure or downsizing are eligible for re-training and re-employment services.  There are no income criteria for this program.

 

Energy Sector Partnership Training:

Provides unemployed workers and others with career planning services, skills training in the classroom or on-the-job, and job placement assistance in the energy efficiency, renewable energy, and other green sectors.  Businesses hiring qualified workers receive reimbursement of 50% of the wages during the training period.

 

 

Other City & County of Honolulu Programs:

These programs are located under the Department of Community Services in the WorkHawaii Division:

Family Self-Sufficiency and Homeownership Program

Provides employment counseling, case management, and homeownership services to the State's Section 8 tenants and low-income public housing residents.  Families establish a government interest-bearing "escrow" savings account that they can successfully draw at completion.

Contact:  Lia Burton, 768-5733

 

Ho'ala Program

Teaches life skills and job readiness skills to participants in the State Department of Human Services First To Work and Vocational Rehabilitation programs.  Job club activities reinforce the learning of job search skills.

Contact:  Nani Fife, 768-5732

 

Rent To Work Program

Provides 12 to 24 months of rental assistance to people experiencing homelessness who are willing to enter employment or increase income primarily through employment.  Offers career counseling, skill assessment and job search assistance as participants follow an individualized employment and training plan to increase income.

Contact:  Lia Burton, 768-5733

 

Ticket To Work Program

Oahu WorkLinks is an Employment Network to assist people with disabilities who are receiving social security benefits to obtain employment, vocational rehabilitation, and other support services to return to work.

Contact:  Dillingham office, 768-5707