Success Lab

Career Readiness can be defined as knowledge and skills participants learn in order to embark successfully on a career-track employment position (that pays a living wage, provides benefits, and offers clear pathways for advancement through further education and training). Below we have listed the services that we currently offer in our Success Lab in hopes of assisting our participants to become prepared to obtain employment and their new lives.

Success Lab Services:

Orientation
Email account
Fdic money smart (financial literacy)
PBS Literacy Link (life skills)
GED Prep
Pre Ged Testing
Employment seeking strategies
Resume preparation
Job search support
Interview skills
Character development
Onsite mock interviews
Onsite job fairs
Career exploration
Job matching
Aidt ready to work (RTW) training and certification
Key train and work keys by ACT
Career focus
Customer service certification and training
Day/evening ged class
Career counseling
Ita referral
Alabama career center registration

Steps to complete Success Lab:

When participants enroll into the success lab they are given an email address and orientation to go over rules, regulations, lab hours, and overview of our classes.
After orientation is completed, participants enroll into Financial Literacy
Once completed, participants begin Life Skills. They complete Life Skills training in the areas of Employment Strategies, Communicating at Work, Reading at Work, and Math at Work.
Students are then able to enroll into Career Counseling where they are able to learn how to utilize O*Net, complete their resume, and discuss employment opportunities with our Job Development/Placement Coordinator.
Students then enroll into a certification class where they are able to obtain a Career Readiness certificate using Key Train and WorkKeys.
Once they complete the certification, they engage in 25 hours of community service
Once completed, they have successfully completed the requirements in the success lab and are eligible to receive an incentive.

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Success Stories

Our Career Readiness “Dannon Star” is Mr. Reginald Woodson. He enrolled into our Success Lab on December 13, 2011. During his initial career counseling session, he told us that he wanted to receive computer training and test for his GED. He stated that he had never used a computer before and had no idea what email was. After his third day in the computer lab, Reginald was able to log on to the computer and complete Financial Literacy without the assistance of the lab instructors.