SUCCESS
Newsletter for Lake County Workforce Development
Who’s Inside?
Work Experience
1
Medical Careers
3
Trainees
4
Workforce
5
Investment Board
5 Steps to Your
Next Job
6
Business Services
8
2015 vol.5 ed. 1
Lake County Workforce Development works with
job seekers to assess their skills, research career
options and to plan a road map to get them to their
next job . Sometimes that path involves a paid work
experience to help the job seeker gain new
credentials and validate their newly acquired skills.
Read the stories of a few recent work experience
participants on the next two pages.
This program is made available by the Workforce
Investment Act funding provided by the Illinois
Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity.
IT Training + Work Experience = Success
When Patrice was laid off after more than 15 years working
for a large cellular company, she wanted to freshen up her
management and IT skills. She completed over 500 hours in
business analysis, project management and Agile software at
Directions Training Center. When she finished training,
though, she wanted to add a new type of employment to her
portfolio. Workforce Development staff coordinated a threemonth work experience for her at the Lake County Regional
Planning and Development office where she worked on a project revamping their
complex fee structure.
In September 2014, Patrice was hired permanently as an IT Solutions Manager for
Devry Education Group where she oversees technology content within their virtual lab.
She is now responsible for advancing, managing and delivering various types of
applications and technologies to service the needs of the student base. She says her job
requires close collaboration across various functional teams.
We recently caught up with four other work experience participants.