Employment Services

Career Counselors are available in the Resource Area

• Career Counselors will complete "clip board interviews" in the Resource Area to help with job placement.
• Customers who attend the Orientation can meet with Career Counselors immediately, for support and guidance in the activities.
• At the end of orientation, any customer who wants to meet with a Career Counselor can make an appointment immediately, by going to the reception window.
• The Career Counselor meets with the customer to get an idea of any issues and goals, and provide orientation to appropriate service (e.g. completing the core activities, steps to training, etc.).
• If the customer subsequently seeks more assistance, the Career Counselor will review the core activities, and make appropriate suggestions.
• Some Career Counselors specialize in vocational assessment and counseling, while other Career Counselors specialize in processing and case managing training requests.

  If you are interested in working with a Career Counselor, please ask VJC staff at the front counter or at the reception desk or call 818-409-0476 for an appointment.

At the Verdugo Jobs Center, we have qualified staff who are available to assist you in a one-on-one processing of your application for Unemployment Insurance Benefits.

Services include:

• Two telephones in the VJC Reception Area are directly connected with the UI claims center.
• Brochures are available which highlight claim-filing procedures.
• Partners provide customers with the 800 number to call to file a claim or ask questions.

Additional information is available at the following Internet sites

California Department of Veterans Affairs
Department of Veterans Affairs
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Veterans News and Information
Veterans Employment and Training Services
Disabled American Veterans

The Verdugo Workforce Investment Board (WIB), which was created by the 2000 federal Workforce Investment Act, develops workforce policies and oversees state and federal funding for the cities of Burbank, Glendale and La Canada Flintridge.

The WIB is comprised of 31 board of directors that are executives at local businesses, education, community organizations, government, and labor.

The WIB has two primary customers, job seekers and local businesses. Through its service providers, the Verdugo Jobs Center and the Burbank WorkForce Connection, the WIB helps job seekers to find job opportunities and build careers through job training. The WIB also helps identify business needs and provides direct assistance to businesses that may have workforce needs, capital needs, or other service needs.

The WIB has been instrumental in helping to boost the local economy and to prepare workers for the jobs in demand in the region. Some examples:

• The WIB has won over $5 million in funding to provide retraining for over 2,000 local entertainment workers that were impacted by the advances in digital technology in the entertainment industry. The work of the WIB had a major impact in keeping worker skills competitive and keeping jobs locally.

• The WIB acquired over $1 million to train 100 new nurses and provide upgrade training to over 200 registered nurses at four local hospitals. This work helped to alleviate a serious nursing shortage of 400-500 unfilled nursing openings at the local hospitals.

• With the closure of the Lockheed Corporation in Burbank and the layoff of over 9,000 workers, the WIB was the only entity designated to assist the thousands of workers impacted by the closure at a time when 160,000 aerospace/defense workers were laid off in Southern California.

The WIB is also the recognized community resource for labor market and economic data on the local economy.

Ramon Abueg	Glendale Water & Power
Cynthia Banks	L A County Community & Senior Services
Kristin Bruno	Glendale Community College
Lucy Burghdorf	Burbank Glendale Pasadena Airport Authority
Paul Celuch	Verdugo Hills Hospital
George Chapjian	City of Glen., Dept. of Comm. Serv. & Parks
James Darcey	Copy Central
Michael Fullerton	Web Conference
Tami Garcia	Walt Disney Imagineering
Ellen Greer	EDD/L.A. County Job Service Div. #915
Nicholas Hacopian	Glen West Management Co
Mary Hamzoian	City of Burbank, Economic Development
Ken Hitts	City of Glendale, Community Redevelopment & Housing
Gary Holt	District Lodge 725, IAM
Judith Kendall	Glendale Chamber of Commerce
Gavin Koon	IATSE
Debbie Kukta	KO Properties, LLC
Chris Lenz	Cal State University LA - Career Dev. Svcs.
Gwen Matthews	Glendale Adventist Medical Center
Maria Mehranian	Cordoba Corporation
Paul Moeller	Environmental Engineering
Pat Morris	L.A. County Dept. of Public Social Services
Gary Olson	Burbank Chamber of Commerce
George Palazzo	Local 726
Richard Roche	AT&T
Michael Sevigny	Chromatic Lithographers
Marko Swan	Cygnet Stamping Company
Janelle Tisher	Department of Rehabilitation
Andre Van Niekerk	Woodbury University
Joylene Wagner	GUSD Board of Education
Yeimei Wang	Y W Consulting
Monico Zamora	So. Cal. Kaiser Permanente