Governor Perdue Announces Work Ready's Share Your Success Initiative

ATLANTA – Governor Sonny Perdue announced today the launch of the Share Your Success initiative to spotlight individual job seekers who improved their career prospects by earning a Georgia Work Ready Certificate. Work Ready participants can share their stories for the opportunity to be selected as the job seeker of the month.

“Work Ready equips Georgians with the skills, training and the certification needed to confidently seek employment,” said Governor Perdue. “Georgia’s workers know first-hand how involvement in the Work Ready initiative has improved their employment opportunities. The Share Your Success campaign gives them the opportunity to tell their stories.”

The Governor’s Office of Workforce Development will select the most compelling success story each month to be featured on the main page of the Georgia Work Ready Web site. Winners will receive a $100 pre-paid card to assist with job search or education-related expenses to recognize their accomplishments. The first job seeker of the month will be selected in May.

To participate, Work Ready Certificate holders should visit gaworkready.org to submit a brief essay on how earning a Work Ready Certificate has led to improved career options and employment opportunities. By sharing their stories, Work Ready Certified Georgians can help others realize the value of improving their core job skills and equipping themselves for better job opportunities.

To date, more than 100,000 Georgians have earned Work Ready Certificates. Work Ready Certificate holders can also take advantage of skills gap training – personalized, online education sessions designed to help improve skill levels and assessment scores. Job seekers interested in taking the Work Ready Assessment or learning about skills gap training can visit www.gaworkready.org to find assessment and training locations near them. In the last ten months, more than 4,800 Work Ready Certified Georgians have successfully found employment.

About Georgia Work Ready

Georgia’s Work Ready initiative is based on a skills assessment and certification for job seekers and a job profiling system for businesses. By identifying both the needs of business and the available skills of Georgia’s workforce, the state can more effectively generate the right talent or the right jobs. The Certified Work Ready Community initiative builds on the assessments and ob profiling system to create opportunities for greater economic development.

For more information on the Work Ready initiative please visit the Web site at www.gaworkready.org.

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