Who is CareerWork$?
CareerWork$® connects young adults from under-resourced communities to lasting, stable careers through free training and builds supportive partnerships advancing equitable economic stability.
Our programs create career opportunities.
BankWork$® started in Los Angeles in 2006 in partnership with JVS SoCal, with one class, a few bank partners, and 10 graduates. Since then, our program has expanded to include more than 80 bank locations across the country, and a virtual program, and it has helped launch more than 5,000 careers in banking.
Our free training program provides the skills needed for career-growth positions like teller, customer service representative, relationship banker, and personal banker.
CareerWork$ Medical® connects candidates with roles in non-clinical healthcare, creating opportunities for advancement and promotion. Over eight weeks, young adults prepare for non-clinical roles that can launch careers in healthcare, such as customer service representative, patient service coordinator, family support specialist, and medical insurance biller.
ReadyWork$ provides community organizations with curricula to offer virtual or in-person training for job seekers in underserved communities. The program focuses on hard skills, such as resume writing and interview practice, and the people and communication skills needed to land and keep a job. Job coaches support students through the process step by step.
These independently validated outcomes are the result of an analysis conducted by Kinetic West in April 2020 using BankWork$ participant data from YWCA Seattle from 2014 and 2015. Wage growth and employment rate data are from Washington State’s Employment Services Department’s unemployment insurance database.