For Immediate Release

 

Date:                      April 16, 2008

Contact:                 Bill Thoennes, Office of Government, Policy and Public Relations

                                Phone:                   (303) 318-8004

                                Web:                       www.coworkforce.com

                                                                http://www.puebloworkforcecenter.com/

 

LIBRARIES TO OFFER JOB SEEKING ASSISTANCE

(PUEBLO) -- Jobseekers have more options when it comes to finding and landing that perfect job. The Pueblo Workforce Center has teamed up with the Pueblo City-County Library District to offer up-to-date job postings and internet assisted job search capabilities.

 

All four public library locations now feature weekly job postings in paper form. In each library’s publicly accessible computer lab, a kiosk will contain Workforce Center guides to searching for, obtaining and maintaining jobs. Library computer desktops will also feature an icon to directly link jobseekers to the Pueblo Workforce Center website.

 

Through that website, library patrons may access one of the state’s largest job posting websites, www.connectingcolorado.com, which features new jobs daily throughout Colorado.  According to PCCLD Associate Director Kathy Knox, the partnership with the Pueblo Workforce Center is a great way to offer services that library patrons want.  “Library staff gets asked about jobs all the time,” said Knox.  “To be able to offer these services just seemed like a natural thing to do.”  Knox added that each library prominently posts the Pueblo Workforce Center calendar featuring upcoming free workshops, job fairs and hiring events.

 

Pueblo Workforce Center Director John Martinez said that jobseekers will benefit from the added convenience of the libraries’ extended hours as well from the availability of a variety of job seeking resources and publications.  “We’re excited about this partnership,” said Martinez.  “The library is open seven days a week, so it gives people the ability to access some of our information and our job postings on weekends and after 5 p.m.”  Martinez added that employers who post their jobs with the Workforce Center will also benefit from the new partnership.

 

“When we do things like this, it not only gives our clients better access to the most recent job openings and the resources they need to help them get a job, it also increases the pool of qualified applicants that employers have to choose from. It just benefits everyone involved.” All public libraries are open Monday through Thursday 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Friday and Saturday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Rawlings Public Library is open on Sunday 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.