Financial Coaching offered at PIM Savvy in Bellevue
Provides free, customized financial guidance on budgeting, credit management, banking, financial goal setting, resume writing, job searching, and assistance applying for jobs. Call or visit website for an appointment.
Provides one-on-one financial coaching and mentoring. Services include customized financial guidance on budgeting, credit management, banking, financial goal setting, resume writing, job searching, and assistance applying for jobs.
Services are available in person or virtual.
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Prejob Guidance
Personal Financial Counseling
Credit Counseling
Native Workforce Services Program at United Indians of All Tribes Foundation
Offers a variety of employment and training services to WIA-eligible and enrolled American Indians, and Alaskan and Hawaiian Natives.
Supports comprehensive employment and training activities while helping clients get the trainings and certifications needed to build a sustainable career, including:
-Job counseling
-Academic counseling and assistance
-Referrals and placement
-Support with applications to government benefit programs, such as unemployment and SNAP
-Employment-related training
Training/Education Incentive: Individuals entering an accredited college or vocational school program may be eligible for tuition assistance. Proof of registration and paid fees will be required.
Referrals: Staff may provide referrals to apprenticeship programs and help clients with job searches.
Support Services: Upon completing the Workforce Readiness class and finding employment, clients may be eligible for supportive services at the discretion of the Director of the Employment and Training Department. These services may include:
- Transportation allowance
- Food allowance
- Shoes
- Work clothing (if required by employer) -
Other reasonable job-related expenses
Summer Youth Employment Experience: Limited number of work experience positions are available during the summer months to eligible high school students. Interested parties should contact the WIA office in January for more information.
Offers Seattle office of labor ordinance and standards training for Seattle workers.
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Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
Classroom Training
Prejob Guidance
Computer Literacy Training Programs
Tuition Assistance
Youth Engagement Programming Safio offered at Open Doors for Multicultural Families
Offers an engagement program that focuses on preparing participants with essential life and employment skills while connecting with peers who share similar lived experiences.
Youth Engagement Programming that is committed to empowering young people with disabilities, particularly those from immigrant, refugee, and BIPOC communities-through inclusive,
culturally responsive programming. The HOPE and Kickstart Program builds on this foundation by offering a year-round, comprehensive support system for youth and young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (DD/ID).
The HOPE and Kickstart Programming is designed to foster self-determination, independence, and future planning through a blend of mentorship, peer engagement, and experiential learning. Participants gain essential life and employment skills while connecting with peers who share similar lived experiences.
Each section topic includes hands-on activities, guest speakers, role-play games, individual assignments, interactive group activities and field trips.
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Prejob Guidance
Summer Youth Employment Programs
Workforce Development Program offered at CASA Latina
Helps Latino immigrant women achieve economic self-sufficiency. Focuses on participation, network, promotion, training and job referrals.
Helps Latino immigrants achieve economic self-sufficiency by providing job training for domestic work including yardwork, green house cleaning, moving and more. Focuses on participation, network, promotion, training and job referrals.
Program held in Spanish.
Participants also take a health & safety workshop to learn how to:
- Avoid workplace injuries
- Properly use personal protection equipment
- Identify and reduce danger in the workplace
This workshop is offered two times per month.
The health & safety workshop is required for those wanting to be hired through CASA Latina's day labor and employment services.
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Prejob Guidance
Job Search/Placement
Employment Services offered by Multi-Service Center in Federal Way
Offers an employment program to help individuals struggling with homelessness and other barriers find employment.
Offers an employment program to help individuals struggling with homelessness and other barriers find employment.
Program offers case management and individualized employment plans, job search basics, career exploration and job readiness training.
Once enrolled, program may also provide additional community resource referrals, including the following:
-Assistance with work related costs (transportation, clothing, housing, training supplies, etc. )
-Job readiness training and skill building (resume, interviewing, job hunting, etc. )
-Job search assistance and employment retention
Support services distribution is contingent on program funding and is not guaranteed.
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Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
Prejob Guidance
Homeless Employment Programs
Peer Support Services offered at Peer Olympia
Provides peer coaching, support groups, employment support, and resource connections.
Offers multiple support, education, and socialization groups.
Peer coaches empower people to achieve a solid recovery foundation and achieve life goals. Peer coaches support individuals in recovery from:
- Addiction Issues (chemical/behavioral)
- Mental Health Challenges (short/long term diagnosis, grief & loss)
- Chronic Illness (HIV/Hep C – Newly Dealing/Newly Diagnosed)
Peer coaches are individually matched with people seeking support in their recovery. The matched pair meets for one hour per week for 26 weeks.
Coaches are individuals in recovery who have reached long-term stability.
Peer Employment Connections
Offers weekly peer support groups that support participants to address fears and barriers about returning to work or work through obstacles they are encountering in their job.
Offers vocational assessments, job search tools, resume building, interview preparation, coaching, benefits planning, employment-related clothing and transportation support, and ongoing support for job retention.
Resource Connections
Offers individualized support to identify and access a range of community resources such as housing or medical care.
Participants meet one-to-one with a peer to help make the linkages to essential supports.
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Families/Friends of Individuals With a Drug Use Disorder Support Groups
Prejob Guidance
Peer Counseling
Peer Mental Health Support Services
Employment/Retirement Related Support Groups
Life Coaching
General Addictions/Substance Use Disorder Support Groups
First Year and Career Services Center offered at Seattle Central College
Offers career planning resources, including computerized career guidance and college scholarship information.
The First Year and Career Services offer career exploration and advising to Seattle Central students. We can help:
- Explore career opportunities, interests, and academic pathways to get there.
- Provide academic guidance to first year and undecided students on class selection and potential areas of study.
- Develop resume and cover letter writing skills, & prepare for interviews.
- Discuss networking, job search methods, and scholarship resources.
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Vocational Assessment
Prejob Guidance
Job Search/Placement
Career Awareness
Stable Families Program offered at Vine Maple Place
Provides stabilization assistance for single-parent families and pregnant women in imminent danger of becoming homeless. Provides rent assistance, employment services and housing case management.
Provides housing stabilization assistance for single-parent families and pregnant women who are in imminent danger of becoming homeless and who live in Maple Valley and cities within a nine-mile radius.
Provides the following services as the family grows to stability:
- Rent assistance
- Housing case management
- Employment services
- Financial budgeting
- Life skills classes
- Child and youth case management
- Counseling
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Prejob Guidance
Housing Search Assistance
Personal Financial Counseling
Case/Care Management
Rent Payment Assistance
Veterans Program offered by WorkSource at Auburn One-Stop Center
Helps veterans and their spouses find jobs and gives them priority access to WorkSource services, including assistance with job search skills, career counseling and referrals to training and other resources.
Administers the Jobs for Veteran State Grant program, a nationwide program designed to provide assistance to veterans transitioning from one career to another. Provides counseling, resources, employment connections, community partnership advocacy and virtual tools to assist in meeting the veterans’ preferred transitional career goals.
Gives veterans and their spouses priority access to WorkSource services, including the following:
- Job listings, job referrals and hiring events for private sector, city, state and Federal careers
- Job coaching for resume, application perfecting, strategies for success, wage negotiations and interviewing assistance
- Use of computers, photocopiers and phones onsite
- Skill assessments and referrals to training and other resources
In addition, the Disabled Veterans Outreach Program provides intensive case management and employment readiness services to transitioning service members, veterans and qualifying spouses with significant barriers to employment.
Local Veterans Employment Representatives Conduct outreach to employers to promote the recruitment and hiring of veterans; partner with Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Commerce to implement employer campaigns to hire veterans and inform federal contractors on process and requirements for recruitment of veterans.
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Prejob Guidance
Job Search/Placement
Career Counseling
Special Needs Job Development
Eastside Employment Program offered at Suburban King County YWCA's Family Village in Redmond
Provides job search and job training support services to eligible Basic Food (food stamp) recipients.
Provides job search and job training support services to eligible Basic Food (food stamp) recipients.
Assistance includes:
- Job placement
- Vocational training
- College and career planning
- Job readiness training
- Interview assistance
- Clothing assistance
- Connections to regional employers
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Prejob Guidance
Job Search/Placement
Section 8 Employment offered by YWCA Seattle King Snohomish's Greenbridge Learning Center
Offers one-on-one employment assistance for King County public housing and Section 8 residents; includes job training and technology instruction, GED, ESL, and ABE assistance, and peer-supported services.
Offers one-on-one employment assistance for King County public housing and Section 8 residents, designed to reduce barriers between public housing residents and their neighbors in the surrounding community. Includes job training and technology instruction, GED, ESL, and ABE assistance, and peer-supported services.
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Computer Literacy Training Programs
High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
Adult Basic Education
English as a Second Language
Prejob Guidance
Homeless Employment Project offered by YWCA Seattle King Snohomish's Opportunity Place
Provides job search & job placement assistance for people who are experiencing homelessness or who are unstably housed.
Provides job search & job placement assistance for people who are experiencing homelessness or who are unstably housed. Program includes a full range of individualized employment and support services needed to achieve self-sufficiency and stable housing.
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Case/Care Management
Job Search/Placement
Prejob Guidance
Homeless Employment Programs
Independent Living Skills Training offered by Disability Empowerment Center in Auburn
Provides skills training to help people with disabilities live independently in the community. Services may include household management, attendant care management, using assistive technology and finding and retaining housing & employment.
Provides skills training to empower people to live independently in the community.
Services may include:
- Information and referral
- Independent living skills training
- Peer support
- Finding and retaining housing
- How to apply for Social Security, DSHS or WA Apple Health (Medicaid)/Medicare
- Assistance with employment including help creating a resume, job search assistance and job preparation services.
All work is focused around the individual consumer's personal goals.
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Prejob Guidance
Job Search/Placement
Welfare Rights Assistance
Prevocational Training
Assistive Technology Information
Independent Living Skills Instruction
CareerWork$ Ready offered by YWCA Seattle King Snohomish's Opportunity Place
Provides a 3-week online job readiness course, combined with one-on-one job placement assistance. Program covers job readiness skills, 30-second commercials, revamping resumes, networking, interviewing, communication skills, online applications, Microsoft Office skills, soft skills and more.
Provides a 3-week online job readiness course, combined with one-on-one job placement assistance. Program covers job readiness skills, 30-second commercials, revamping resumes, networking, interviewing, communication skills, online applications, Microsoft Office skills, soft skills and more.
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Internet Courses
Job Websites
Job Search/Placement
Prejob Guidance
Computer Literacy Training Programs
CareerWork$ Ready offered by YWCA Seattle King Snohomish's Greenbridge Learning Center
Provides a 3-week online job readiness course, combined with one-on-one job placement assistance. Program covers job readiness skills, 30-second commercials, revamping resumes, networking, interviewing, communication skills, online applications, Microsoft Office skills, soft skills and more.
Provides a 3-week online job readiness course, combined with one-on-one job placement assistance. Program covers job readiness skills, 30-second commercials, revamping resumes, networking, interviewing, communication skills, online applications, Microsoft Office skills, soft skills and more.
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Internet Courses
Job Search/Placement
Job Websites
Prejob Guidance
Computer Literacy Training Programs
Career Services offered by Lake Washington Institute of Technology's Career Services
Provides job search assistance, including help with resumes, job interview techniques, job posting, and access to Internet resources; some services for general public.
The Career Services office provides career planning and job search assistance to LWTech students and alumni. Whether you are exploring a new career path, trying to decide on the right educational program, looking for a part-time job or internship while you are in school, or graduating and ready to find your dream job, Career Services is here to help. Services include individual support, classroom presentations, workshops, employer events and online resources to LWTech students and graduates.
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Prejob Guidance
Job Search/Placement
Employment & Training Services offered by WorkSource at Rainier Affiliate
Offers individual job search assistance and job preparedness workshops. Provides a list of job openings, computerized job matching system, employer services and phone and computer access for filing employment insurance benefits.
Offers a wide variety of services for job seekers, from individual job search assistance to an extensive list of workshops designed to help job search preparedness. Announcements of jobs within the state of Washington can be obtained at any WorkSource Center, Affiliate or online.
Provides computer access to apply for Washington State Unemployment Insurance.
Provides access to community and technical college programs and financial resources for retraining.
Helps people find employment who have lost their jobs through company downsizing or plant closures.
Other services may include the following:
- Case management
- Job readiness training
- Career counseling
- Vocational assessment
- Individualized job search assistance
- Job fairs
- Employer connections
- Career development workshops
- Follow-up services
- Educational scholarships.
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Business Assistance Centers
Job Banks
Prejob Guidance
Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
Career Counseling
Public Access Computers/Tools
Job Search/Placement
State Unemployment Insurance Applications
LEP Employment Services offered by Refugee Federation Service Center in Kent
Offers employment training and vocational ESL for refugees; serves low-income refugees and immigrants making 80% of the state's median income or below.
Acts as a direct referral from DSHS Community Service Offices for refugees new to the system who need employment services.
Services include pre-employment training, vocational English as a second language (ESL) classes, skills training, job placement and customized employment training in specific fields, such as hotel housekeeping.
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Vocational English as a Second Language
Classroom Training
Job Search/Placement
Prejob Guidance
Section 8 Employment offered by YWCA Seattle King Snohomish's Opportunity Place
Offers one-on-one employment assistance for King County public housing and Section 8 residents; includes job training and technology instruction, GED, ESL, and ABE assistance, and peer-supported services.
Offers one-on-one employment assistance for King County public housing and Section 8 residents, designed to reduce barriers between public housing residents and their neighbors in the surrounding community. Includes job training and technology instruction, GED, ESL, and ABE assistance, and peer-supported services.
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Prejob Guidance
Adult Basic Education
English as a Second Language
Computer Literacy Training Programs
High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
Homeless Employment Project offered by YWCA Seattle King Snohomish's Firwood Circle Office
Provides job search & job placement assistance for people who are experiencing homelessness or who are unstably housed.
Provides job search & job placement assistance for people who are experiencing homelessness or who are unstably housed. Program includes a full range of individualized employment and support services needed to achieve self-sufficiency and stable housing.
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Homeless Employment Programs
Case/Care Management
Prejob Guidance
Job Search/Placement
Workfirst Programs offered by YWCA Seattle King Snohomish's Opportunity Place
Offers both paid and unpaid on-the-job work experience internships for parents making the transition from welfare/TANF dependency to self-sufficiency.
Offers both paid and unpaid on-the-job work experience internships for parents making the transition from welfare/TANF dependency to self-sufficiency. Internships provide a supportive work environment to build job skills, employment references and work history. Includes pre-employment job readiness training, educational support, career navigation assistance and unsubsidized job placement assistance.
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Job Retraining
Prejob Guidance
Job Search/Placement
Occupation Specific Job Training
Temporary Employment
Employment Services offered by TRAC Associates in Tukwila
Offers job readiness workshops, job skills trainings, job placement services and job retention services. Special programs available for low-income adults, people with disabilities, veterans, refugees or DSHS clients.
Matches employers to job seekers by providing employment services.
Services include job readiness workshops, job skills trainings, job placement services and job retention services.
Offers these services through direct referral and coordination of city, county, state and federal programs.
Also offers employer services, including screening of potential applicants, supervisory training and outplacement services.
Programs include the following employment services.
Not all services offered at all locations:
Community Jobs Initiative (CJI)
Offers paid (minimum wage) internships to job seekers looking to build skills for employment.
Participants must currently receive TANF cash assistance of DSHS - Community Services Office.
This program is implemented through extensive partnerships among state agencies (including DSHS, Employment Security, and the Board of Community and Technical Colleges).
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Placement Services (DVR).
Provides vocational assessment, internship development, and monitoring and job placement services for adults with disabilities who are referred by DSHS - DVR counselors.
Limited English Pathway Placement Services
Offers job readiness workshops, job placement services, skills trainings, and job retention and county wage progression services as well as English language class referrals for King and Snohomish adults with limited English.
Participants must be at least 18 years old and either a refugee with documentation or currently receive TANF cash assistance from DSHS - Community Services Offices.
This is a program of DSHS and the Office of Refugee and Immigrant Assistance (ORIA).
Veterans Administration Placement Services Employment and training assessment, job placement and job retention services for service connected disabled veterans referred by the Veterans Administration.
Contact Harriet Klein (206) 443-9999 for more information.
Workers Compensation Services Provides vocational assessment, vocational plan development, and monitoring of vocational training programs for injured workers referred by Washington State Labor and Industries Department, including the Office of Workers Compensation Programs.
Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Adult Services/Dislocated Worker Services.
Provides job readiness workshops, job placement services, vocational training, and job retention services for adults.
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On the Job Training
Veteran Employment Programs
Immigrant/Refugee Employment Programs
Prejob Guidance
Job Search/Placement
Business Consulting Services
Career and College Centers offered by Seattle Public Schools No. 1
Offers career planning, job search training and job referral services for all Seattle Public Schools high school students and parents/guardians at several alternative high schools as well as smaller schools.
Integrates career planning, job search training and job referral services through college and career centers at several alternative schools and small schools.
Students receive advice on post-high school options, including:
- Career and technical education
- Preparing cover letters and resumes
- Completing job applications
- College applications/scholarships
- Selecting colleges
A job-listing service is available for employers who would like to hire students.
Employers can contact the Career & College Center Specialist at each high school.
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Prejob Guidance
Career Counseling
Job Search and Referral offered at Somali Community Services of Seattle
Provides job search and referrals through one-on-one assistance. Helps clients search using the internet and make phone calls. Provides job readiness classes that teach resume typing, interview skills, internet searching, etc.
Provides job search and referral assistance through one-on-one assistance. Helps clients search using the Internet and make phone calls. Provides job readiness classes that teach resume typing, interview skills, internet searching, etc.
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Prejob Guidance
Job Search/Placement
Career Bridge offered at Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle
Provides assistance with job readiness, job search, work training and labor market information through workshops, computer resources and case management.
Offers a 5-week program providing assistance with job readiness, job search, work training and labor market information through workshops, computer resources and case management. Program participants may also get assistance with obtaining work-appropriate clothing.
Workshops and case management offer the following services to all students enrolled:
- Mentorship Life Skills & Training
- Earn Certifications (Industrial First Aid/CPR, Flaggers, Food Handler Permit)
- Financial Empowerment
- Resume & Cover Letter Assistance
- Job Connections
- Wrap-Around Services
Job announcements provided are current postings from private industry, city, county and state employers.
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Work Clothing
Prejob Guidance
Job Search/Placement