Nontraditional Employment
Get the skills that pay the bills!
Have you ever thought about pursuing a career in the building and construction trades?
From 1999 through 2007 the Permanent Commission on the Status of Women conducted a pre-apprenticeship training program for approximately 15 women a year who wanted to pursue a career in the building and construction trades. This program was funded by the CT Department of Labor, Office for Workforce Competitiveness, Capital Workforce Partners and the Hartford Jobs Funnel.
While we are gratified by the success many of these women have found, PCSW is now developing an economic security agenda that will benefit the entire state. This new agenda will promote economic self-sufficiency by supporting women’s entry into high-wage, high-growth industries. The agenda will also address the demand for workers in key sectors such as construction, alternative energy, high-tech manufacturing, and allied health technologies.
PCSW’s goal is to stimulate statewide economic growth by bringing an under-utilized portion of the workforce to high-paying jobs in sectors that will be hiring large numbers of new or replacement workers.
One of the first objectives of our new agenda is to use our experience to develop a pre-apprenticeship curriculum that can be adopted and adapted by organizations targeting women wishing to enter the building & construction trades.
PCSW believes its new approach will reach more women than we could in the past, and will ensure they will enjoy a greater number and variety of opportunities for economic advancement.
Listed below are some resources to point you in the path of pursuing a career in non-traditional employment:
Construction
Joint Apprenticeship Training Directors Committee of Connecticut
Connecticut Department of Labor
20-28 Sargeant Street, 3rd Floor
Hartford, CT 06105
Hartford Jobs Funnel training programs. For details, click here.
Information regarding Construction Job Training Initiatives:
Waterbury Construction Career Initiatives
Northwest Regional Workforce Investment Board Brownfield Job Training Program
New Haven’s Connecticut Workforce Initiative
200 Orange Street
New Haven, CT 06510
Protective Services
Are you interested in becoming a state trooper?
City of New Haven Fire Department
Information regarding a career in Corrections: http://www.das.state.ct.us/exam/Corrections/DOC_Intro.asp
Information regarding the State Trooper Trainee program: http://www.das.state.ct.us/exam/Trooper/dps_Intro.asp
Information regarding a career in Protective Services: http://www.das.state.ct.us/exam/Police/pol_Intro.asp
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Women in the Trades Exchange
Are you in the trades? Would you like to join our network of CT tradeswomen? Join here. (NEED FORM)
PCSW convenes gatherings of tradeswomen called Women in the Trades (WIT) Exchanges. These periodic gatherings are to help tradeswomen support each other, share information about regional and national WIT events and organizations, talk about job retention and compliance issues, and look forward to mentoring younger tradeswomen.