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Preparing for Your Career
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Businesses today look for employees who have the education, training, and abilities to fill skilled positions. Training and education after high school can make you a stronger candidate for the job and career you want.
To be competitive in the job market, consider a junior or community college, a trade school, training, or a four-year college or university.
Look under the education section for more resources!
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WorkInTexas.com - Lists jobs at Texas state agencies and other organizations
Texas Workforce Solutions - Every workforce office has a dedicated contact person for foster youth, CPS staff, and PAL staff who can help you with employment and training, job readiness, career exploration and other workforce related services. For information on how to locate your local Workforce Solutions office and get in touch with your local contact, click HERE
Check out Texas Job Hunters to help you find a job.
Gary Job Corps in San Marcos can educate and house up to 1,900 youth between the ages of 16 and 24 years old at any given time. Their program can be entered into by any qualified youth (16 to 24 years old) at no cost.
They currently have an online high school, a TEA Certified Texas High School and top the list of amount of GEDs earned in Texas.
They also offer the students the opportunity to earn their driver's license.
They have 27 separate vocational trades for students to choose from.
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State agencies are required to give an employment preference to former foster youth who were in the permanent managing conservatorship of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services on the day before the individual's 18th birthday over other applicants for the same position who do not have a greater qualification.
An individual is entitled to an employment preference only if the individual is 25 years of age or younger (day before turning 26). To request the employment preference letter, contact your PAL Staff or Youth Specialist.
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Benefits of joining the military include health care, housing, education, life insurance, job training and help, plus retirement (20 years of service) for more information about military programs and benefits visit USA.gov
Military branches:
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Check out these websites for job hunting tips!
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The Texas Transition and Employment Guide is for you, the student in Texas public schools, who may have received special education services due to a disability. It also provides helpful information for your parents or foster parents.
This guide has steps you and your parents or foster parents can take to make sure you are able to find the right work or educational choices for you after high school. It also tells you where to get the services you will need after high school.
You can find the guide HERE, its available in English, Spanish, Korean, Vietnamese and Chinese
