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McGill packs up after a New Haven Works Westville road show.
New Haven’s emerging “jobs pipeline” came to Patricia McGill’s neighborhood — and promised finally to get her through Yale’s door.
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by | Dec 6, 2012 2:02 pm | Comments (28)
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New chief Reynolds (right) at Wednesday’s board meeting.
DeStefano: Where’s the money coming from?
It’s not open yet to meet job-seekers, but New Haven’s emerging “pipeline” has a new office, interim chief and bylaws.
Organizers of the pipeline — a year-long effort so far to funnel unemployed and underemployed New Haveners into existing jobs — took important first steps Wednesday to making their effort official.
by | Nov 29, 2012 11:43 am | Comments (0)
Another Hurricane Sandy postscript: CTWorks Career Center/Workforce Alliance is back open at 560 Ella Grasso Blvd.
by | Sep 5, 2012 7:44 am | Comments (1)
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Marchand: We got the message.
City lawmakers looked over a nine-month report about how to connect local people to jobs — and had zero objections.
by | Aug 20, 2012 1:29 pm | Comments (7)
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Dry run: Job-seekers at a recent city-run screening session.
New Haven’s civic leaders have hatched an idea: Create a new organization. And 1,000 New Haveners will find jobs over the next four years.
by | Jul 31, 2012 3:11 pm | Comments (32)
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Yale’s Lauren Zucker speaks with Dwight Alderman Frank Douglass.
In a discussion about improving town/gown relations with Yale, city lawmakers offered several suggestions: help set up the “jobs pipeline,” expand the university’s homebuyer program, and extend Yale shuttle service to all New Haveners.
by | Jun 27, 2012 12:01 pm | Comments (0)
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Javon St. Clair took Charles Stevenson’s vital signs Tuesday morning. On Wednesday he’ll take a written test on the cardiovascular and lymphatic systems. On Thursday the two men will practice drawing each other’s blood in a full scale lab on site. Then, in 18 more weeks, the aspiring phlebotomists hope to step into full-time jobs with a real future.
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‘Vital Signs Good For
"Pipeline" Entry Spot’
by | Apr 26, 2012 3:09 pm | Comments (0)
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He received bullet points about job interviews. He got coached on presenting his “unique personal brand.” Then Onoh Udensi looked 10 stories down onto New Haven’s bustling green and saw another glimpse of his path to the CEO’s office.
by | Apr 25, 2012 5:35 pm | Comments (3)
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A hometown evangelist for 4 million forgotten Americans urged New Haven policymakers not to leave the “99ers” out of upcoming plans to link local people to jobs.
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‘Joe Carbone Pleads:
Don't Forget The 99ers’
by | Apr 11, 2012 11:51 am | Comments (4)
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Highsmith & Clemons at training school they’re opening Thursday.
A one-time teenaged factory “trucker washer” who succeeded in business has returned to Winchester Avenue to help other New Haven kids follow in his footsteps — and to help out-of-work adults get jobs drawing blood.
by | Feb 24, 2012 12:30 pm | Comments (0)
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New Haven’s newest experiment in linking local people to local jobs left a Congolese refugee with a mini-loaf of Chabaso bread — and a shot at making some figurative bread.
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by | Feb 14, 2012 11:46 am | Comments (0)
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50-plus job-seekers hit a three pre-screening session last week.
As New Haven moves to connect local people to local work, developers will either put “skin in the game” or face demands that will make them flee town — depending whom you ask.
by | Feb 10, 2012 12:02 pm | Comments (0)
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DeStefano huddles with job-seekers Ernie Jones & Roy Ketchum.
The mayor has an idea of what a new “jobs pipeline” could look like. It could look like a box.