Career Advice

This October is the 75th anniversary of National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), which happens to fall in the same year as we’re celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, or ADA. To celebrate, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) held a virtual event this week focused on increasing access and opportunity

*Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China.This “vocational skills education center,” situated between regional capital Ürümqi and tourist spot Turpan, is among the largest known ones and was still undergoing extensive construction and expansion at the time the photo was taken. Dabancheng, Xinjiang, China, Sept. 4, 2018. Copyright: Thomas Peter, Reuters. Imagine a worker whose employer has canceled his

Nov. 8-14 is National Apprenticeship Week, an annual celebration of a proven training model that benefits employers and workers alike. Despite being one of the oldest forms of job training available, apprenticeship is remarkably flexible. It enables workers to earn a steady paycheck while receiving valuable on-the-job training in a wide range of industries while helping employers develop a highly-skilled

This week I had the opportunity to host the U.S. Department of Labor’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service HIRE Vets Medallion Awards Ceremony honoring the 675 awardees for 2020. While we would have loved to recognize our recipients in person, we were glad to create a presentation that they could share with their employees, customers and prospective employees. The HIRE