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Archive: NOVA in the News
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| November 26, 2009 | Gov't retraining programs are helping unemployed KGO-TV abc7 |
| Referenced: Kathie DeHart, NOVA Staff | |
Goverment funded programs are helping the unemployed find new jobs through employment training programs. |
November 19, 2009 November 25, 2009 |
Sunnyvale's unemployment rate nearly doubles compared to last year's Cupertino's unemployment rate higher than last yearMercury News |
| Referenced: Kris Stadelman, NOVA Director | |
Sunnyvale and Cupertino's unemployment rates continue to rise dramatically compared to last year's numbers. |
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| October 19, 2009 | $6M grant for Silicon Valley job help Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal |
| Referenced: NOVA, CONNECT | |
A $6 million grant from the California Employment Development department will help laid-off Silicon Valley workers find jobs. |
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| September 26, 2009 | Navigational aide for job-seekers Mercury News |
| Referenced: Jennifer Cheyer, NOVA Staff | |
For the past 11 years, Jennifer Cheyer has watched the ebb and flow of the job market firsthand. As a career adviser for Nova, the federally funded employment and training agency in Sunnyvale that recently celebrated its 25th anniversary, Cheyer has seen thousands of newly minted job-seekers walk through the door. |
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| September 11, 2009 | 'Wonderful' stories from the job hunt Mercury News |
| Referenced: ProMatch | |
Ken Won has read the many stories about the discouraged and growing ranks of the long-term unemployed. Tales of despair and dejection. But Won has different stories — a whole Web site full. |
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| September 3, 2009 | Pilates teacher follows his passion after layoff from HP Mercury News |
| Referenced: Connie Brock, NOVA Staff | |
Dmitry Yudin had already been through a lot by the time the Big Recession caught up with him at his last software engineering job. So when his boss told him in March that he was being laid off for the second time in five months, he wasn't going to let it crush him. |
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| August 21, 2009 | Silicon Valley Group Helps Older Job Seekers KPIX (CBS 5) |
| Referenced: Bob Withers, NOVA Staff | |
A government-funded job search program in Silicon Valley is helping older job seekers get back in the workforce. ProMatch offers a comprehensive job search strategy, providing everything from peer-support to snacks. |
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| July 31, 2009 | Silicon Valley Jobless Unplug From Tech Wall Street Journal |
| Referenced: Connie Brock, NOVA Staff | |
Jobless workers in Silicon Valley are giving up on the region's dominant technology industry and trying to switch to other fields, as the area's unemployment rate spikes above the national and state average. |
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| July 28, 2009 | 137K Californians to Lose Unemployment Benefits KPIX (CBS 5) |
| Referenced: Kris Stadelman, NOVA Director | |
137,000 Californians who receive unemployment checks will max out on their benefits in the next five months. They were among the first to lose their jobs in the downturn. Len Ramirez reports. |
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| June 12, 2009 | Valley jobs guru offers parting thoughts on workforce, economy as he retires San Jose Mercury News |
| Referenced: Mike Curran, former NOVA Director | |
Calling himself "the reverse of a salmon going upstream," Mike Curran has hit 60 and is retiring after 23 years as director of NOVA, leaving his unofficial post as the Job Guru of Silicon Valley. |
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| May 28, 2009 | NOVA using stimulus funds to foster youth employment San Jose Mercury News |
| Referenced: NOVA Youth Program | |
The North Valley (NOVA) Job Training Consortium will funnel more than $200,000 in federal stimulus funding to 10 schools and nonprofit groups for youth employment, training or leadership development. |
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| May 17, 2009 | Stimulus creates jobs for disadvantaged youths San Francisco Chronicle |
| Referenced: Jennifer Springer, NOVA staff | |
As part of the stimulus bill passed in February, Congress included $1.2 billion for youth employment, primarily a summer jobs program for disadvantaged 14- to 24-year-olds. |
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| May 12, 2009 | NOVA using stimulus funds to foster youth employment Sunnyvale Sun |
| Referenced: Kris Stadelman, NOVA Director | |
The North Valley Job Training Consortium will funnel more than $200,000 in federal stimulus funding to 10 schools and nonprofit groups for youth employment, training or leadership development. |
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| May 9, 2009 | Obama wants to ease rules on aid to jobless San Francisco Chronicle |
| Referenced: Mike Curran, NOVA Director | |
| President Obama said he wants to make it easier for people to collect unemployment benefits while they go to school or retrain for jobs, promising to "lay a new foundation for our economic growth by investing in our citizens." | |
| May 6, 2009 | Experts agree: Building, tapping a network crucial to finding new job San Jose Mercury News |
| Referenced: Connie Brock, NOVA staff | |
It might sound like schoolyard horseplay, but many career counselors say a successful job hunt requires that you get yourself on top of the pile. |
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| April 22, 2009 | The Valley of the Green Giants MetroActive |
| Referenced: Mike Curran, NOVA Director | |
| Thanks to federal stimulus money, a new technology is ready to blossom in the land of high-tech innovation. | |
| April 8, 2009 | Job seekers should update skills, network Milpitas Post |
| Referenced: NOVA, ProMatch | |
| One of the hardest things for me as a county supervisor is to receive the many notices from employers giving us notice of proposed layoffs. | |
| April 1, 2009 | Foothill-DeAnza chancellor tapped for Washington job San Jose Mercury News |
| Referenced: Martha J. Kanter, NOVA Workforce Board member | |
| Martha J. Kanter, the energetic and innovative chancellor of the Foothill-De Anza Community College District, has been nominated as undersecretary of education. | |
| March 24, 2009 | San Jose career counselors feel weight of downturn San Jose Mercury News |
| Referenced: Jeanette Langdell, Employment Training Manager | |
| Lidia Doniz scans the weary faces around her table, each one a cameo from the docudrama of America's pink-slip pain. Some look scared. | |
| March 19, 2009 | Career expert offers tough but practical advice to job seekers San Jose Mercury News |
| Referenced: NOVA, ProMatch | |
| Career and job hunt expert Marty Nemko recently gave a crowd of job seekers a stinging dose of the reality he sees in the Bay Area labor market. | |
| March 19, 2009 | City hires new NOVA director San Jose Mercury News |
| Referenced: Kris Stadelman, incoming NOVA director | |
| The city of Sunnyvale has named Kris Stadelman as the new director of the North Valley Workforce Board. Stadelman comes to NOVA after nine years as the chief executive officer for the Workforce Development Council of Seattle – King County, Wash. | |
| March 12, 2009 | Sunnyvale names new director at NOVA Workforce Board City of Sunnyvale press release |
| Referenced: Kris Stadelman, incoming NOVA director | |
| The City of Sunnyvale has named Kris Stadelman the new director for the North Valley (NOVA) Workforce Board. Stadelman comes to NOVA after nine years as the chief executive officer for the Workforce Development Council of Seattle – King County, Wash. | |
| February 17, 2009 | Silicon Valley's next challenge: Retraining San Francisco Chronicle |
Referenced: Mike Curran, NOVA director |
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Green industry might help pull Silicon Valley out of this recession, but the region faces the challenge of retraining adult workers, according to a new report from local civic leaders. |
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| January 29, 2009 | O'Brien: Expect the layoff picture to grow darker |
Referenced: Mike Curran, NOVA director |
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Layoffs have once again become a daily staple of Silicon Valley life. We had it good here, for a while. |
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| January 26, 2009 | |
Referenced: NOVA |
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Two and sometimes three times a week a lucky 200 people come to Sunnyvale's ProMatch, a job placement service for tech workers run through the EDD and NOVA Workforce Board. |
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| January 26, 2009 | Tech slump's ripples hit both capital, Capitol |
Referenced: NOVA |
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In better times in Silicon Valley, a job offer like this would have been dismissed as a joke: two months' work, walking door to door |
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| January 23, 2009 | Unemployed seek to improve job skills |
Referenced: NOVA |
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1.7 million people in California were looking for work in December. Almost one out of every 10 Californians is out of work. And of course, all of these job losses mean a lot of people -- people who are used to working for a paycheck -- are being forced to ask for help. |
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| January 9, 2009 | NOVA Business Services: Helping manage workforce restructuring |
Referenced: NOVA |
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Many local businesses are scaling back their workforces during these challenging economic times. To help avert layoffs and ease reductions, NOVA and the California Employment Development Department (EDD) provide career transition services at no cost to either business or employee. |
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