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Formed in partnership with Brevard Workforce’s county-wide Faith in the Future Program

Brevard County, FLORIDA – In partnership with Brevard Workforce’s Faith in the Future Program, First Presbyterian Church of Titusville is launching a Job Club to encourage and share Valuable Job Search resources.

The opening session will take place on Wednesday, May 9 from 6:00 to 7:30 pm in the Downstairs Fellowship Hall at the church, which is located at 1235 South Park Ave, Titusville.

The event is open to everybody and is free of charge.

Whether you are unemployed, underemployed or thinking about changing careers, join us for a time of support to walk with you along the path. Topics will change weekly to help and encourage you on your journey.

The club will meet weekly on Wednesdays.

For more information, please send an email to Vicky at vickyintitusville@yahoo.com.

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Formed in partnership with Brevard Workforce’s county-wide Faith in the Future Program

Brevard County, FLORIDA – In partnership with Brevard Workforce’s Faith in the Future Program, Freedom Christian Center in Viera is launching a Job Club to encourage and share valuable Job Search resources.

The opening session will take place on Thursday, April 26 from 7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. in Room N2 at the church, which is located at 7250 Lake Andrew Drive, Melbourne, FL 32940.

The event is open to everybody and is free of charge.

Following the first session, the club will meet regularly on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month.

For more information, contact Kate Leach at kleach1227@gmail.com or 321-622-6330.

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The partnership with the Titusville Area Chamber of Commerce, the Melbourne Regional Chamber of East Central Florida, and the Greater Palm Bay Chamber of Commerce will help promote Brevard Workforce’s new “Jumpstart” campaign and the wide range of services it offers Brevard businesses, most of which are free of cost.

“This partnership will empower local businesses with the knowledge that Brevard Workforce is here to help them,” said Titusville Area Chamber of Commerce president Marcia Gaedcke. “We hope they take advantage of all that is offered to them.”

Highlights of Brevard Workforce’s business services include On the Job Training (OJT) placements, in which Brevard Workforce covers 50-90 percent of a new employee’s salary for up to six months. In an OJT placement, employers can select from a pool of eligible individuals or can refer a potential employee to the program to determine if he or she is eligible.

“If your business is thinking about hiring, I strongly recommend contacting Brevard Workforce first,” said Melbourne Regional Chamber of East Central Florida President Christine Michaels. “We’re happy to help promote these efforts because we know they help support our community and our businesses.”

In accordance with the partnership, the chambers will feature articles, social media posts, sponsorships, presentations, and more about Brevard Workforce and its services and opportunities that will reach their large audience of Brevard businesses.

“This partnership is a great example of how Brevard organizations can work together to achieve the goal of putting people back to work,” said Victoria Northrup, president of the Greater Palm Bay Chamber. “It’s truly beneficial for everybody involved.”

For more information and details about Brevard Workforce’s business services, visit http://brevardworkforce.com/businesses.

For more information about our Jumpstart initiative, click here.

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Brevard County, FLORIDA - Pro football legend Fran Tarkenton spoke via video call to more than 60 budding entrepreneurs Wednesday at the Brevard Workforce Career Center in Rockledge, offering words of wisdom and inspiration.

Mr. Tarkenton, a successful entrepreneur who has launched some 20 companies since retiring from the National Football League, spoke to a full classroom at a Brevard Workforce Biz Launch workshop.
The Biz Launch program meets weekly at the Brevard Workforce Career Center in Rockledge. Potential entrepreneurs attend to discuss their business ideas and learn valuable tips and insight from successful entrepreneurs from Brevard County and elsewhere.

Mr. Tarkenton hit on several topics during his hour-long discussion, including seven things he said every entrepreneur should know:

1. The mission of business is to help people 
2. TALK to people, learn from them
3. There are NO silver bullets
4. Reinvent yourself everyday
5. Have a sense of desperation everyday
6. You learn more from failure than success
7. You’ve got to work and be smart

Starting April 3 from 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m., Biz Launch will begin at the Brevard Workforce Career Center in Palm Bay (5275 Babcock St. NE, Suite 8B). Future sessions will be scheduled every Tuesday from 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

The initial four weeks will be comprised of Entrepreneur 101 curriculum, which is designed to prepare attendees for the shift to self-employment. To register for Biz Launch in Palm Bay, visit http://bizlaunchpalmbay.eventbrite.com

For more information or details regarding this class, send an email to resources@brevardworkforce.com or visit www.brevardworkforce.com.

Mr. Tarkenton, who played for the Minnesota Vikings and the New York Giants during his 18-year NFL career, has a relationship with the Foundation for Financial Wellness (FFW), a non-profit Foundation out of Denver, Colorado that has been teaching the Entrepreneur 101 curriculum to attendees of Biz Launch since August 2011.

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Brevard County, FLORIDA - Pro football legend Fran Tarkenton will be speaking at Brevard Workforce’s BizLaunch workshop on Wednesday, March 14 at 9:30 a.m. at the Brevard Workforce Career Center in Rockledge (295 Barnes Blvd.).

Media members are welcome to attend.

Mr. Tarkenton, a successful entrepreneur who has launched some 20 companies since retiring from the National Football League, will speak to the roughly 60 attendees via Skype for approximately one hour. He plans to discuss his business philosophies and then open the floor for an extensive question-and-answer session.

The BizLaunch program meets weekly at the Brevard Workforce Career Center in Rockledge. Budding entrepreneurs attend to discuss their business ideas and learn valuable tips and insight from successful entrepreneurs from Brevard County and elsewhere.

Starting April 3 at from 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m., BizLaunch will begin at the Brevard Workforce Career Center in Palm Bay (5275 Babcock St. NE, Suite 8B). Sessions will then be scheduled for every Tuesday from 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

The initial four weeks will be comprised of Entrepreneurial 101 curriculum, which is designed to prepare attendees for the shift to self-employment. To register for BizLaunch in Palm Bay, visit http://bizlaunchpalmbay.eventbrite.com

For more information or details regarding this class, send an email to resources@brevardworkforce.com  or visit www.brevardworkforce.com.

Mr. Tarkenton, who played for the Minnesota Vikings during his NFL career, has a relationship with the Foundation for Financial Wellness (FFW), a non-profit Foundation out of Denver, Colorado that has been teaching the Entrepreneur 101 curriculum to attendees of BizLaunch since August 2011.

Tarkenton Companies and its subsidiaries are built upon Fran’s core philosophy: There is only one reason for a business to exist – to provide products and services that enhance and improve the quality of life of its customers.

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Brevard County, FLORIDA - Brevard Workforce, the area authority on workforce development, is launching its “We Love Our Vets” campaign on February 14, 2012 to coincide with Valentine’s Day.

The initiative expedites assistance to Brevard County’s military veterans. As of 2009, there were nearly 1,900 unemployed veterans in Brevard County, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.

Eligible veterans will be issued a “Gold Card” granting them specialized, express services at all Brevard Workforce Career Centers as well as six months of one-on-one case management and career counseling with experience Veteran Representatives.

“It goes without saying that we are extremely proud and humbled to serve these men and women,” said Brevard Workforce President Lisa Rice. “Our veterans are dedicated and hard-working go-getters and leaders - qualities that every employer should look for when hiring.”

Starting on Tuesday, February 14, veterans can register for their Gold Card by filling out a brief form atwww.brevardworkforce.com/goldcard. Registration forms for Gold Cards are also available at any of the Brevard Workforce Career Centers.

Brevard Workforce Career Center locations:

Titusville
3880 S. Washington Ave.
Suite 214

Rockledge
295 Barnes Blvd.

Palm Bay
Country Club Plaza
5275 Babcock Street NE
Suite 8B

Employers interested in learning more about hiring Veterans can visit veterans.employflorida.com for additional information.

Brevard County, FLORIDA - Fifteen members of Brevard’s aerospace workforce who faced layoffs in 2011 are starting 2012 in internships that promise career possibilities in Drupal, one of the fastest growing open source Content Management Systems in the world. 

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The group was among those who completed the inaugural session of the Drupal Career Starter Program (DCSP), which was funded by Brevard Workforce through funds for displaced Aerospace Workers.

Drupal, an open-source Content Management System that powers millions of websites and applications worldwide, has encountered such high demand that there is a shortage of qualified professionals worldwide to meet it.

DCSP, developed and conducted by Anello Consulting, includes a rigorous application process, a 10-week, 70-hour course including classroom instruction and practical training, and a follow-on internship.

The DCSP course is a first-of-its-kind, multi-week program that provides participants with everything they need to change careers into the opportunity-rich field of Drupal. Hundreds of full-time Information and Communications Technology (ICT), contracting, and telecommuting positions are currently posted on Drupal.org/jobs, Careerbuilder.com, Dice.com, and other online jobs sites.

“Well-paying jobs are available now, and are growing fast in areas of ICT that may not be familiar to the general population, nor have formal certifications,” said Lisa Rice, president of Brevard Workforce. “The data on the growth of Drupal, and the tremendous opportunity for those people who learn the software and gain experience convinced us we have to step outside the box a bit so we can offer our workforce fast turnaround programs that provide well-paying options quickly.”

The DCSP curriculum and format was developed and conducted by Michael Anello of Anello Consulting, an active member of the worldwide Drupal Community, and a lead organizer of Florida’s fast-growing Drupal User Group.  He also coordinated the internship portion of the program, reaching out to a very willing professional community that had more internship positions available than there were participants in the program.  About 89 percent of those who completed the DCSP were technically qualified to become interns.

The 15 internships keep all the participants living in Brevard, with most working remotely for host organizations including governments and private companies in the Orlando area, North Florida, South Florida, Washington DC, Atlanta and North Carolina.

Fourteen of the internships are funded through Brevard Workforce’s Adult Work Experience program.

“There is a lot of value in intensive training followed by internships, both for aspiring Drupal professionals and growing firms like ours that are constantly looking for more talent.” said Dave Terry, partner of Altanta-based Mediacurrent. “We are excited to be a part of this innovation in workforce efforts, and hope that more agencies support Drupal training in the future.”

Organizations that are hosting interns are using the Drupal CMS, which is estimated to be powering almost 2 percent of the world’s web sites, including high profile sites such as www.whitehouse.gov. Drupal also powers highly-interactive and content-rich sites such as www.examiner.com, www.lifetimetv.com, and many Sony music artist sites.

The modular format of the platform, combined with its ease of use and active developer community, continues to inspire wide-scale adoption across a variety of markets. Development of Drupal talent is a major focus of the international Drupal organization, which is accessible online at www.Drupal.org.

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The academy, founded in 2007, offers Viera High School students a business-and-finance curriculum inside the classroom while also providing internships at Brevard businesses during the summer.

To ensure the students are prepared for successful internships, Brevard Workforce will hold a day-long work-readiness and career exploration workshop on January 13, 2012 for juniors in the Academy. The workshop is being held at the Brevard Workforce Career Center in Rockledge (295 Barnes Blvd.) from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. A workshop for freshman will be scheduled later in the spring.

The workshops will prepare students for internships at local businesses this summer. The academy is seeking to place 50 students in internships at area businesses this summer. For more information, call Jeff Dravis, Academy of Business & Finance Director at VHS, at 321-632-1770 ext. 28110.

Several Brevard Workforce professionals will be on hand during the “school-to-work” workshop to educate students on techniques for writing resumes, typical workplace etiquette, career exploration tools, and other general work-readiness skills. The workshop will also have mock interview sessions from the participants.

“We are excited to work with Viera High School and hope that this experience will help students prepare for their summer internships,” said Brevard Workforce Program Planning Officer Erica Lemp, who will oversee the training event. “We believe it will provide them with the knowledge to help them prepare for their future careers.”

The Academy, which strives to help students attain modern financial, business, and entrepreneurial literacy, has 200 students, 50 from each grade.

“In class, we not only study marketing, management, economics and computers but we role play many ethical situations students may face when they enter the workforce for the first time,” said Stacey Gammella-Blackledge, Academy of Business & Finance Teacher and Internship Supervisor. “We groom them to be well-rounded and well-prepared for whatever the business world has in store for them.”

Brevard County, FLORIDA – Brevard Workforce has formally announced the addition of Robert Jordan, Jr., CM, to its Board of Directors.

Mr. Jordan, President and CEO of Genesis VII, an Engineering, Logistics and Construction Services Company, will take his seat at the February 17, 2012 Board of Directors meeting. The meetings are held every four months.

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