Employment/Career Services

Taña Andres
Adult Education Program Assistant

Need a Job or Career?

The Northeast Alabama Adult Education Program provides career services for our adult education students! Contact Taña Andres for more information at andrest@nacc.edu and check out the career resources below.

Job Postings

Position: Part-time Instructor of Adult Basic Education

Date: Ongoing
Position: Part-time Instructor of Adult Basic Education
Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree, with current knowledge in area and some experience preferred.

Contact: Leisa Bunch, Adult Basic Education Office Manager
Email: bunchl@nacc.edu Phone extension 2292

Job announcement and application form.

Workplace Education

Workplace Education consists of classes offered by a company or industry specifically for its employees. Participants have the opportunity to improve their basic skills, prepare for future training/college, or to learn specific tasks necessary to perform their jobs. The classes are generally smaller and offer the students the opportunity to learn in a familiar environment. Contact our Adult Education offices for more information.
(256) 638-2957 or (256) 228-0021.

Career Services and Resources

Career Coach (https://accs.emsicc.com/?region=Alabama&radius=) take a 6 or 60 question Career Assessment to learn about yourself and Career Coach will give you career suggestions based on your interests.Browse or search for careers to find relevant data on wages, employment, and the training you need. Browse or search for the available Programs that lead to the career you want. Use the easy-to-use résumé builder will help you create a professional résumé. Veterans, find civilian careers related to your military occupation.

America’s Service Locator (www.servicelocator.org) connects people to local offices providing employment and training services. It provides maps and driving directions to the nearest American Job Center, and unemployment insurance filing assistance. America’s Service Locator has information on more than 20,000 local resources and offices.

CareerOneStop (www.CareerOneStop.org) includes tools to help job seekers explore careers, investigate salary and benefit information, research education and training opportunities, plan a job search and browse job sites, write and improve resumes and cover letters, prepare for a job interview, and search for jobs. In addition, the CareerOneStop Web site provides links to workforce and labor market information Web sites that contain local information resources and tools.

CareeroneStop’s Credentials Center (www.CareerOneStop.org/Credentials) helps individuals plan, locate, and pay for education, training, and other credentials to help them start, change, or advance their career. The site features several integrated tools allowing users to explore credentialing options, related labor market information, and job postings.

My Next Move (www.MyNextMove.org) gives individuals three main ways to explore careers, including an online O*NET interest assessment, and then provides an easy to read, one-page profile of each occupation highlighting important knowledge, skills, abilities, technologies used, simplified salary and outlook information, and links to find specific training and employment opportunities. View a demonstration at https://www.workforce3one.org/view/MyNextMoveDemo.

My Next Move for Veterans (www.MyNextMove.org/VETS) is designed for U.S. veterans making the transition to civilian careers and provides tasks, skills, salary information, job listings, and more for over 900 different careers. Veterans can find careers through keyword search; by browsing industries that employ different types of workers; or by entering their military occupation code or title. View a demonstration at https://www.workforce3one.org/view/MNM4VetsDemo.

O*NET Online (www.onetonline.org) enhances businesses’ hiring and retention efforts and supports workers and students to identify and develop workplace skills and enhance career planning with key data on occupational characteristics.

Veterans Reemployment Portal on CareerOneStop (www.CareerOneStop.org/Vets) is designed to assist veterans with employment, training, career planning, financial and emotional help after military service. The site links veterans to local resources as well as provides a military-to-civilian job search based on military job title or military occupation code.

Worker Reemployment Portal on CareerOneStop (www.CareerOneStop.org/Reemployment) is designed to assist impacted workers following job loss, and to connect laid-off workers to needed resources for training, reemployment, career planning, financial and emotional help during the process of job transition. The site also now includes a job search by location feature.

Mi Proximo Paso (Spanish version of My Next Move) (www.miproximopaso.org) gives individuals three main ways to explore careers, including an online O*NET interest assessment, and then provides an easy-to-read, one-page profile of each occupation highlighting important knowledge, skills, abilities, technologies used, simplified salary and outlook information, and links to find specific training and employment opportunities.

Business Center on CareerOneStop (www.careeronestop.org/BusinessCenter) Some of the key features include information on recruiting and hiring a skilled workforce, links to local training and educational institutions, a civilian to military crosswalk to assist in recruiting Veterans, information about workforce certifications, and a job description writer.

Job Search Help for ExOffenders (www.careeronestop.org/ExOffender) helps individuals move past their criminal records by providing tools, tips, and resources to help them search for, apply for, and begin a new job.

Automatic Spanish Language Translations: In response to customer feedback, several E-Tool websites now have an automatic translation feature that allows users to quickly translate the pages into Spanish:

• CareerOneStop (www.careeronestop.org), a one-stop online site for job search, career and training tools and resources.
• Worker ReEmployment (www.careeronestop.org/ReEmployment), providing employment, training, and financial assistance for laid-off workers.
• mySkills myFuture (www.myskillsmyfuture.org), helping laid-off workers and other career changers find new occupations

Additional Resources:

Career Coach - Discover majors and in-demand careers and education based on your interests! Including a Career Assessment, the a career and program search feature, and a resumé builder
Indeed - Search for jobs in your area
Go Build Alabama - Information about high-demand trades and training opportunities
Career Builders - Search jobs, employment, and careers
Live Career - Help with your resume
Linked In - The world's largest professional network helps you connect with employers, companies, etc.
Free Online Typing - Get free online typing lessons and exercises from Peter’s Online Typing Course. Improving your typing will improve your study skills and job skills.
Power Typing - a free online tutor with tests, lessons, and games
Owl Online Writing Lab - online workshop for resume & cover letter