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Career Advising

Meet with a Career Services Advisor to get guidance on your resume, job search, career transition, professional development, and more. During your first appointment, your Career Advisor will talk with you to identify your career goals and any barriers that you may be facing, and work with you to develop a strategy to help you reach your goals.

Call 585-258-3500 to get started.

Job Strategy Group

Job Strategy Group meets weekly on Wednesday mornings – come once or week after week. Job Strategy Group is a safe space to practice Introductions, celebrations, and to network and learn. Our topics change every week based on what group members suggest and request.

In addition to weekly meetings, there is an active LinkedIn page for Job Strategy Group members to share resources, tips, and job opportunities.

Workshops

RochesterWorks! workshops are designed to coach and educate job seekers in both foundational areas of Job Readiness, Career Exploration, and Self-Employment support and special focus topics. Some current offerings include Negotiating Your Job Offer, Interviewing Beyond the Basics, Virtual Job Fairs, Understanding and Mastering the ATS System, Catchy Cover Letter, Stress Management, and more.

View the calendar for workshops being offered by the College Avenue Career Center.

Resource Room (Accessible)

The Resource Room at the College Ave Career Center is equipped with 14 computers, telephone, fax machine, copier, JAWS, Zoom Text, scanner, mini keyboard, and Interpretype.

E-Learning On-Demand Workshops

Our virtual workshops offer our customers a more convenient way to learn at the times that work best for them. With 24/7 access to RochesterWorks virtual content, we strive to give our customers more ways to be successful in their job search.

View our complete e-learning catalog.

Recruiting Events

From Recruiting on the Road presented by Monroe County to job fairs and small-scale recruiting events, RochesterWorks! can connect you to employers.

View the calendar for recruiting events happening in Monroe County.

Career Assessments

SHL Aspiring Minds Assessment is a skills assessment program that provides over 1,400 validated tests for clerical, software, call center, legal, financial, healthcare, industrial, and technical job classifications. This platform is designed to help employers and recruiters determine if candidates’ have the required skills for a specific job.

In addition, SHL offers training tutorials for Microsoft Office 2013 & 2016 titles in Access, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Windows 7.0, and Internet Explorer 10.0.

View the complete list of assessments and tutorials.

Ticket To Work

This voluntary program was designed for Social Security recipients (SSI and SSDI) between the ages of 18 and 64 and allows them to try going back to work without the risk of losing their Social Security benefits. If you assign your Ticket to RochesterWorks, you would be entitled to intensive, one on one, personalized assistance from a qualified Career Advisor. Supportive services can include help with your job search and online applications, help writing a resume, interview practice/preparation, help to request accommodations, and general career guidance.

5 Steps to Rapid Employment Program

5-Steps is an intensive and interactive program for professionals of all industries and levels of experience. The program consists of 5 days of e-learning and experiential in-class learning, followed by on-going support through a Career Coach and Campaign Team meetings.

Learn more about the 5 Steps Program.

Career Navigator Program

An intensive 5-day job-search training program

Learn how to redefine your skills to fit existing and emerging industries and occupations.
Design a job search strategy to fit your values, skills and goals.
Learn the marketing techniques that will get your message out to the people that make the hiring decisions.
Navigate the obstacles and challenges of the changing economy and learn the new rules of job search.
Master the ability to successfully transition into new directions of employment and control future employment paths.

Learn more about the Career Navigator Program.

RochesterWorks Training Grant

RochesterWorks! has a training grant that can cover the costs of education or training for individuals who need to update their skills to find a job or advance in their career.

Learn more about the Training Grant.

St Paul Office: Career Center Open Lab

27 computers are available for any skill training or job search during walk-in hours.

St Paul Office: Wage Subsidy Program

RochesterWorks! provides an intensive job readiness training in order to prepare and place customers in competitive employment utilizing a wage subsidy.

St Paul Office: Job Readiness Training

Focuses on individual and family development and addresses the entire being. (Non-custodial parents who are referred from the court system are also referred to this program).

St Paul Office: Employability Assessment

This provides an in-depth assessment of customers past, present, and future goals in order to assign them to activities supported by the Monroe county Department of Human Services.

St. Paul Office: Work Experience Program

The Work Experience Program is an activity supported by the Monroe County Department of Human Services and it helps customers receiving benefits gain/refresh their marketable skills.

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