Careercatchers Inc

CareerCatchers, Inc. (CC) is a 501c3 organization dedicated to working with under and unemployed, low-income and disadvantaged residents of the Washington metropolitan area and supporting each client as they move along the self-sufficiency continuum. Our mission is to:

-    Provide employment and job skills counseling to ensure stable employment;

-    Identify and encourage participation in work place skills and training programs;

-    Enhance self esteem and foster empowerment.

Since 2007, CareerCatchers (CC) has provided one-on-one sustained guidance to over 2,500 low-income and otherwise disadvantaged clients seeking careers with upward mobility. CC’s mission is to provide individualized employment and job-skills counseling to ensure stable employment; identify and encourage participation in training programs; and enhance self-esteem and foster empowerment. The goal is to support the clients as they move out of poverty with a strategy of counseling, training, community and employer partnerships, to provide a path to escape from continuously working in minimum wage, dead end jobs. CareerCatchers uses a personalized and multiple-touch- point approach similar to that used by professional career coaches.

Clients receive numerous one-on-one sessions, participate in weekly Job Clubs and Empowerment Workshops, attend other in-house training, and receive tutoring for various skills building training. Services include career planning; goal-setting; skills evaluation; access to funds for skills training; resume and interview preparation; job search; and job retention support.

CC makes a difference in clients’ lives by providing them with equal access to community resources, and empowering them toward self-sufficiency. CareerCatchers’ services are critical to closing the poverty gap in Montgomery County, MD. Clients reap benefits from long-term job retention support and job skills evaluation, with step-by-step guidance for meeting their short- and long-term career goals.

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