Online Job Search Resources

Here are just a few of the many job search resources available online...  If you want help with your job search, call and make an appointment with one of our Career Coaches: 510-533-8850.   

General Job Search Sites

• The Beehive- Provides links to local resources for your job search, career exploration, continuing education, and much much more.  Enter your zipcode to get the most relevant information.
• Craigslist- Online job classifieds, organized by industry.  Also lots of other classified information, such as items for sale, community activities, volunteer opportunities, etc.
• Yelp- Employment Agency Reviews- A list of 100 employment agencies rated by online users.  Read what real people have to say about them!
• Idealist.org- Non-profit career site, plus lots of volunteer opportunities and online community
• Opportunity Knocks- Non-profit job postings
• CalJobs- State of California's online employment resource
• EASTBAY Works- Links to Job Banks for Alameda County, Oakland, Contra Costa County, and Richmond
• Monster.com- Job Bank
• Juju- Job Search Engine

• City of Oakland Jobs- Jobs at the City of Oakland

• Blue Collar Jobs- Information about careers in the skilled trades

Resources for Re-entry (formerly incarcerated) population:

• East Bay Works- resource links
• Jails to Jobs
• 2011 Employment Information Handbook
• Centerforce- California nonprofit dedicated to helping the formerly incarcerated
• Hard2Hire- online job bank
• America Works- National non-profit with local office providing Reentry placement services
• Volunteers of America- Placement and Training services

Warm clothes, blankets needed for new refugees

Six new Burmese families just arrived from the Thai refugee camp last night with children ages 2 (boy),6(girl) and 8(boy), and one expecting mother.  They have no warm clothes or bedding, esp blankets. 

We are looking for the following to help these families get the basic neccesities as they prepare for the very difficult adjustment ahead.

We working with the Oakland Burmese Fellowship Church to store and distribute these clothes. 

If you are willing to donate any of the following, please consider donating:

• Small-medium sized children's clothes appropriate for cold weather.  Please no stains or holes.
• Adult jackets(small and medium sizes only please),
• bedding/blankets
• beds/mattresses

Please only donate items that are clean and in good condition. Please, no stains, holes, etc.

Where to deliver

On Saturday, 2/26 from 2-5pm: Oakland Burmese Fellowship Church, 524 22nd Street, Oakland CA 94612

Monday-Friday, from 9am-5pm: Lao Family's Oakland Office, 2325 East 12th Street, Oakland, CA 94601-PLEASE CALL AHEAD and ask for Aye Thaw at 510-533-8850.

LFCD Executive Director recognized at Women's History Celebration

Kathy Chao Rothberg will be among several women honored this evening by Contra Costa College and the West Contra Costa Branch of the American Association of University Women at the 11th Annual National Women's History Month Celebration. The theme this year is "Our History is Our Strength."

Women throughout our service area will be acknowledged for their community contributions and advocacy. 

 

The 2011 Women's History honorees are:

Courtney Cummings, Health Activist - City of Richmond

Kimi Honda, Senior Advocate - City of El Cerrito

Marcia Kalapus, Historian - City of Pinole

Tory Kornblum, Community Policing- District 2

Dalu Lingemann, Artistic Historian - District 2

Kathy Chao Rothberg, Executive Director, Lao Family Community Development- City of San Pablo

Sylvia Villa-Serrano, Business - City of Hercules

Beth Williams, Community Involvement - District 1

Robin Yee Wilson, Children's Literacy - District 1

Ciara Wood, Community Safety - District 1

Date and Time:  3/24/2011 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Location: John & Jean Knox Center for the Performing Arts, located at the corner of El Portal and Castro Streets

Oakland on the Move! Career Expo

Get ready for our next Oakland Career Expo "Oakland on the Move!"

This Expo will focus on the build trades and transportation but there will be other industries too.

Location:

Oracle Arena & Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum (East Side Club)

7000 Coliseum Way, Oakland, CA 94621.

Date:

Thursday April 7, 2011

Time:

10:00am to 3:00pm. The expo

Participating Exhibitors include:

• Accent Care, Inc.
• Alameda County Electrical Apprenticeship
• Alameda County Human Resources Services
• Bayside Solutions
• BKF Engineers
• California Department of Industrial Relations (Division of Apprenticeship Standards)
• California State University, East Bay, Continuing Education
• Centerline Drivers
• CJC Trucking, Inc.
• Cypress Mandela Training Center, Inc.
• Employmentation
• Hertz Corporation
• Landmark Protection Inc.
• Lea + Elliott, Inc.
• Liberty Mutual Insurance
• McGuire and Hester
• Safeway
• Staffchex
• Sears Home Services
• Senior Helpers
• SFPD Recruitment Unit
• Staples, Inc.
• Teamsters JC 7
• Turner Construction
• Volt Workforce Solutions
• WorkAbility III

To register as a participant:

Fill out the registration form online at www.oaklandcareerexpo.org or at the registration table the day of the event.

Please feel free to visit the website for the most up-to-date list of employers, training providers and other resources participating at the event.  Click here for a flyer for the event and Information Sheet for Participants

To register as an employer:

If you know of an employer that would like to participate and have a FREE booth and FREE lunch at the event, please contact Luis Del Muro at (510) 533-8850 or ldelmuro@lfcd.org

Click here for the employer information sheet

Free medical, dental, and vision services

Free medical, dental, and vision services

Click here to download the flyer

CAL Expo, Sacramento, April 1-4, 2011 

and

Oakland Coliseum, April 9-12, 2011

DENTAL: Cleanings, fillings, extractions. Pediatric dentistry is available.

VISION: Vision exam and free prescription glasses made onsite. (NOTE: As time and supplies permit - May not be able to make glasses for everyone.)

MEDICAL: Pediatric exams; adult physicals & medical consults (including diabetes and hypertension); chiropractors; acupuncture; blood lab work; chest X-rays; medication assistance; and many other medical specialties available.

Services provided by Remote Area Medical® volunteers are intended for the uninsured, underinsured, unemployed, underemployed, and those who cannot afford to pay. Services are provided by volunteer doctors, nurses, dentists, dental hygeinists, dental assistants, ophthalmologists, optometrists, opticians, and other trained health professionals from the State of California.

For more information about how to volunteer, please visit RAM's website: http://ramusa.org/expeditions/2011/northerncal2011.html 

For more info for patients, please visit:

http://www.ramcaliforniavolunteers.org/PatientInformation.aspx or 

Click here to download the flyer