Senator Dick Durbin Tours It Career Lab

| Read Our Blog Read Our Blog Blog Senator Dick Durbin Tours IT Career Lab Grace Powers March 5, 2014 IT Career Lab, Uncategorized, Workforce 0 Just as soon as I returned from the Hill after attending the2014 National Skills Coalition Skills Summit and was beginning to settle back on to Central time, Illinois Senator Dick Durbin â€" recent off a red-eye from the Hill â€" requested a visit on February 19 to satisfy some of our information know-how professionals-in-training by touring our IT Career Lab. During his visit, Senator Durbin visited our IT Career Lab classroom and obtained to expertise our coaching firsthand. He asked the scholars about their employment standing, how many had their degrees, and what they thought was holding them back from turning into employed. Senator Durbin spent a while in an open roundtable dialogue with myself, Assistant Director of the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Dan Seals, our Chief Information Officer Tom Jurlina, and our college students. While my visits to the Hill last week had been productive, having Senator Durbin sit in my office for an hour and talk with me about points and initiatives affecting federal workforce laws was completely invaluable. Each pupil was forthcoming about their challenges, but mostly, about how strongly they all consider that the opportunity to participate in our program would help them realize their worth in the job market. All three of the students Senator Durbin met with in the course of the roundtable are in a position to participate in IT Career Lab due to the help of the Workforce Investment Act. To study more about IT Career Lab, please click on here Read more about Senator Durbin’s visit right here. Your email address won't be printed. Required fields are marked * Comment Name * Email * Website Subscribe me to your mailing list Receive our newsletters, breaking news alerts, and more! Veterans Forward Orientation Careers by National Able Network: An Online Orientation for Nebraska Residents! Care ers by National Able Network: An Online Orientation for Illinois Residents! View More…