Resources to improve your skills
In multiple languages and for specific community groups.
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Improve your job skills, practice using Microsoft programs and explore career options. Available in Spanish. Multnomah County Library Card required.
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Virtual learning platform with courses available in technology, business and soft skills. Classes are available in Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish. Multnomah County Library card required.
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Phone-based texting program that provides English language learning, Spanish literacy, and work and job skills.
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Find employment and training programs. Services include job coaching, development and placement, vocational training and certificate courses.
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Resource for worker's rights and support. Available to Spanish speakers (though the site is only in English).
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Multiple services for the Latino and Spanish-speaking community.
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Multiple job help services, available in Amharic, Arabic, Chinese, Farsi / Persian, Korean, Lao, Russian, Somali, Spanish and Vietnamese.
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Use this resource to research jobs and careers.
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Learn about different jobs and the school and training they require. It includes scholarship information and demand now and in the future for each career.
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Website with assessments and tools to explore jobs and careers.
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Website created by the U.S Department of Labor to help you with everything related to jobs and careers.
For specific community groups
Organizations like Mercy Corps NW, Easter Seals, INCIGHT and Worksource Oregon offer job and career help for specific community groups like the formerly incarcerated, immigrants and refugees, people with disabilities, veterans, women, and people in the LGBTQ+ community.
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State-certified apprenticeship-readiness program helping women prepare for careers in the skilled construction trades.
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Created for the LGBTQ+ community to develop skills for employment and find jobs and careers with the Promoting Avenues to Employment (PAVE) program. Get matched with a career coach and participate in self-paced job readiness training.
People with disabilities
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Connect to meaningful work, have one-on-one appointments and more.
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Get personalized one-on-one job service help, resume assistance, and interview tips.
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