Chicago Career Tech has a new website. Please visit:
ChicagoCareerTech.com
The application process for Group 2 (October 2010 – April 2011) is now closed. If you wish to be notified of when the Group 3 (May – October 2011) application process opens, please visit our new website for more information.
Chicago Career Tech is an innovative job retraining program that integrates classroom training, employer- and service-based learning with a business and nonprofit organization to provide unemployed middle-income workers with the skills necessary for high-demand technology-based careers.
By assisting displaced middle-income workers in securing skills to succeed in today’s competitive job market, Chicago Career Tech is also helping to build Chicago’s technology workforce and attract prospective employers to the city.
Participants in this six month, six-day-a-week
training program will
- Be prepared for technology-based careers as they receive training in an array of in-demand technology fields, including digital media, healthcare information technology, Microsoft certifications, network management, project management, technical sales, telecommunications, and Web design and development, among others.
- Receive classroom training certifications from leading educational institutions at no cost
- Gain hands-on experience at businesses and nonprofit agencies
- Receive a weekly stipend (while still qualifying for unemployment insurance, if eligible)
You may qualify if you meet the following
minimum eligibility requirements
- City of Chicago resident
- Minimum of a high school diploma or GED
- Unemployed (after January 1, 2008), with previous annual income of $25,000 to $75,000
- Currently collecting or have exhausted unemployment insurance in the State of Illinois
- Not currently enrolled in another job training program
Who Benefits: Win-Win-Win
With Chicago Career Tech, companies receive the talented and trained participants they need to prosper, individuals receive the training they need to be marketable for coveted technology positions, and the city escalates its position as a global leader in technology talent.
- Unemployed Chicagoans: Educated, unemployed workers receive a stipend (while still qualifying for unemployment insurance, if eligible) while being trained to make them more marketable for highly-skilled, in demand jobs.
- Businesses: Receive access to a new pool of program participants who receive formal classroom training in high demand technology fields at no cost to the business, with the possibility of company-specific training.
- The City: Builds a pipeline of human talent to help grow the technology sector, an industry with a pervasive, long-lasting and sustaining effect on Chicago’s economy.
For more information, please visit www.ChicagoCareerTech.com
