Workforce One Career Center

I’ve gone to every workforce one center for the exception of the brooklyn one but i couldnt find the others so i will write my review here:
Usually the front desk people are almost always rude and look like their face has a rule against smiling behind the desk because they look so uptight and miserable. The staten island workforce one has this woman that is so rude and is always huffing and puffing and talks down to anyone who approaches her upon entering. Same with the queens workforce one.
The jobs are mainly alot of retail, food service and social service direct care worker jobs (in which i went on an interview for AHRC once and the woman doing interviews whom was the HR was so rude and nasty for no reason) and some workers here seem to have their egos too high as they come off at times as though they are better or more ambitious than you. God forbid you have a question about something, never go to the front desk with it unless you dont mind being humiliated by a rude moody receptionist.
Overall:The jobs here are a good starter for someone finishing highschool or trying to get through college and just needs a simple job, not really a career based sort of thing. I’ve gotten a job through workforce one as a personal care aide/​home health aide where the WF1 paid for the training but the job itself sucks. They get 3 stars for trying and some of the people are very helpful but if you have a degree and need a serious paying job that you know you deserve then you are better off with craigslist or indeed.

The work force 1 centers are what YOU make of them.
They actually have a superb stock of resources. Five years ago I went in expecting them to find me a job. The interviews they were sending me on were jobs I could have found on my own. So I stopped going & found a job on my own/​independently,
They offer career counseling, resume help & updating or interview coaching– which I didnt need. But this is wonderful for those new to, or returning to the work force. The facility is state of the arts, very clean & modern with all the current softwares.
Its a busy place & people come there for different reasons. Ive seen inexperienced & ghetto people in the waiting area getting anxious and distracted & frustrated by the overwhelming traffic. These are sometimes the same people with no work experience but either want an advanced grant or to apply for the same position as some one with 15 years in their field. Thats unrealistic.
Work force 1 offers several training programs in order to build skills & make some one a more attractive candidate/​job seeker.
From what ive seen/​heard from my visits is that most people naively expect to walk in, and walk out employed with a great high paying job, whether they have the credentials or not. Ive also seen incidents of highly skilled/​educated people offered marginal positions. The job counselors mostly try to place people in jobs ASAP.
There is a difference between a job and a career.
Apart from the classes they offer I was pleasantly surprised they offer FREE I.T.G grants if you have experience in the desired field & can pass a test.
FREE classes
FREE grants for continuing education classes at various accredited school to make more money in the future!
I just got my COMPLETE medical course– tuition paid for. Now im a step closer to becoming an R. N
The thing is that the majority disgruntled customers are the many patrons that are sent to workforce 1 by welfare, or the unemployment office.
Many people run in with fire under their feet, obvious overwrought needs of financial stability and answers. People constantly over look the classes, and other resources they have.
The head of the medical and nurse assistant school that I graduated from
advised me of applying for the grant.
I never previously knew that Work force 1 offered tuition/​grants and so many resourceful classes.
Dont overlook their classes. Education helps you get a better job + career.

I am miffed. The Workforce 1 person completely BLEW ME OFF. Did not return my emails and WAS NOT helpful in the least to obtain credentials to get work in the Security Field. I am really not sure, if these advisors want to analyze you, or actually HELP you obtain work. If they offer a GRANT, why give u such a hard time to get the Grant? If you decide that you need work outside a field of your choice, why dont they HELP U? get the credentials? pretty lame WORKERS.

So goddamn stupid, and this goes for all the WF1 «career centers». Basically you go to one of these places on the pretext that you will get to apply and interview with the employers listed on their web-​site for that particular day. This is what actually happens; you show up wait and then its either going to be a group interview or a «one on one» session with one of the agents (I guess) that work over there. Both processes are time consuming and excruciatingly annoying. They look over you’re resume and then decide for you whether you are good enough to work at whatever bullshit-​we-​want-​you-​to 7 days a week-​but-​will-​only-​pay-​you-​minimum-​wage-​jobs they happen to have that day (looking at you GAP). Its an interview for an interview basically.
BUT WAIT THERES MORE. If you are patient enough to go through the dumbass and unessacary middle man that is WF1, you will most likeley get an interview with one of the clothing or restsurant chains that recruit out of this place. You will quickly discover two things.
1. The interviews are usually dated days or sometimes weeks after you set them up. So if you need a job asap, forget about it
2. These companys that interview out of wf1 can be extremely picky about there selection. So you just wasted half a day because some tool decided you are not good enough to fold clothing or set up sports equipment.
3. Even if you get selected get ready for a million «second interviews» or to be told that the location you applied for won’t be opening untill spring 2020. So again if you nees work fast… forget about it.
And do NOT get me started on their «vetaran services» LMAO. If I could I’d give this place ZERO stars I defenitely would. Get fucked wf1.

I give workforce one 1 no stars but they make me pick 1 star. if you have great resume and lots of skills and great education background forget it just low end retail jobs. They are looking for ghetto out spoken idiots, If your 25 and over forget this place! just a middle man, I went for a job and we did a group interview and the guy said i wasn’t picked because i didn’t answer enough questions like really what happen to all my experience does that even matter now. I felt like I was targeted because I wasn’t Loud and Outspoken. Thank you! White guy with the tight black pants and face that looks like he had botox! Workforce one 1 Equal Workforce Non

My suggestion is to just cut out the middleman and apply on your own. Going through workforce is just more work because instead of the usual 1 – 2 interviews with the company you end up doing around 5 because they are screening everyone.

Even though I’m reviewing a specific facility, this critique can be applied to every Workforce One «career center,» which is probably the most misleading description of this business that they could have possibly chosen. As other Unilocalers have noted, almost all of the available positions are in low end retail, which in itself is not necessarily a bad thing.
What I object to though is the patently false impression this agency gives prospective job-​seekers, i.e. that utilizing its resources will somehow advance their job search. Spoiler Alert: It won’t. In fact, it will probably hinder it. Workforce One is essentially a taxpayer-​funded nonprofit that earns a cut from every person it places in one of the lackluster jobs offered by its clients.
Attending a generic job fair is equally efficacious, which should tell you something about how utterly useless Workforce 1 is. In fact, applying directly to the company itself is preferable-there’s absolutely no reason you need a middleman to direct you to jobs which are advertised on company websites and classified listings.
Even worse, some of the jobs advertised are not even legitimate businesses. Appco Group, for example, is a multi-​level marketing scheme. When I pressed one of the Workforce 1 employees on this, she insisted that it was a legitimate business, despite being the equivalent of a pyramid scheme. Aside from a place to photocopy copies of your resume, there’s virtually no redeeming feature of this organization. John Stossel explored the deficiencies of Workforce 1 in a lengthy episode targeting failed government and quasi-​government programs-​I highly recommend watching it for a realistic appraisal of this organization.
If you are really in search of a job, avoid it at all costs.

One star is too much. If you have a degree and you’re looking for something outside of retail — don’t come to this place. They mostly offer jobs a little above minimum wage such as: retail, security, home health aide, and a survey job where they will offer you $ 7.25 an hour. In addition, there are people there that are rude and will have you waiting some where, while they have personal conversations with one another.
I’d skip this place and put your hope of finding a job in the hands of the POWERS THAT BE!

Its completely horrible and wasting my time I’ve been Workforce 1 membership «06» every time i’ve tried to apply for a job suddenly they doing waiting and group interview to speed up selecting 5 candidate and sending them on job site with referral and the rest have to wait for email or phone call within within a week
1. They make you choose one job for the group interview and expose your interview skill in public with members (NO PRIVATE INTERVIEW)
2. Horrible workshop as Resume, Cover Letter and Interview.
3. Workforce staff are completely rude and never smile to every current, new or old members.
4. If you are trying to apply for the specific job you want. they gonna tell you have to apply online.
5. Hiring Employers never show up for face to face interview only recruiter talk to you or everyone.
6. All jobs only «No Experience» and they will reject with experience.
7. Computer Room space is limited
8. All Borough Workforce location are the same and horrible service.
9. Inexperience Staff and rude service.
10. Seasonal Jobs and rarely permanent Jobs only.
If you want to save time and immediately for job go buy «Dummies» books it’ll help you for the preparing job search, resume, cover letter and job interview or you can save money you can ask your family, relatives, friends and worker to help you and learn for the processing for the job hunting.

In 2012 this workforce 1 wasn’t to shabby a little unorganized but it was much faster. I also got a job through this center last summer. But now OMG This year is horrible one they tell you, you must be in there on time but don’t start the recruitment events until like an hour later i’m not exaggerating either if you come at 1:30pm expect to be out at 4:00pm it’s that deep.
Also they always put the active members in with the new members and every time you go you have to hear the sammmmmeeee ol’ speech over and over again about what workforce 1 is, and blah, blah, blah. I Know what workforce 1 is already cause I been here so many damn time and heard this speech. They need to just have active members in it’s own room that’s it.
Then I had account managers say they were going to e-​mail me an interview date never received one, Last year the man told me I was going to get an interview date got one the same day. Like they need to be more organized and more efficient. This is a great program I love it but the account managers is just not there. Though I must add I learned a lot about interviewing through workforce 1, and honestly it helps you to be more confident and ready for interviews depending on how much you go.

very in-​depth

Useless facility. I’ve been to this Brooklyn location, Queens, and Harlem and have NEVER gotten a job through them. I figured that maybe if I gave each of the facilities a chance one of them would actually be competent. Nope, didn’t happen. The staff is extremely rude. Apparently they have some sort of dress code which is ridiculous because you’re not going on an interview, you’re only talking to the middle man. I met with this one guy who told me I needed to fix my resume and then email it to him so that he could then submit it to the company I was there for in hopes of a supervisor position. Instead of doing that, I called the company myself and spoke to human resources who gave me their fax number so I could fax them my resume (which I did). Then the very next day they CALLED me to set up an interview. So apparently my resume was just fine. Yup, I made it to the third round of interviews and then I turned THEM down because I got a job closer to home. Nothing but a total waste of your day. Find your own job!

Well honestly i think that workforce1 is great it helps people who are in need of jobs in todays economy. Was so glad i found a job working at UnitedHealthCare and also glad we have things like this in our area today

I got a job at the GAP on 54^th & 5^th through workforce MONTHS after I had initially participated in a huge group interview where I applied to work at VS & the GAP; it was really just a screening event. I got an email from Michael Salazar inviting me to an interview, I rsvp’d, went on the interview with two other girls, got called for a second interview and got the job! They don’t forget about you and will continue to help you find employment. Love it!

Before I tell you why I put two stars, I have 2+ years in retail experience, yea not a lot but I thought going to workforce 1 would allow me to express my qualities and get me that step to getting a job. nOPE! They basically have recruiting events for different companies where you sign in and get called for a pre screening for the company you want to work for, its not a real interview. you give them your resume they ask you basic questions like Why would you be a good candidate for macy’s and if they like you they’ll contact you. I’ve been there for 2 months and still wasn’t able to get a job. I was starting to think that I’m not good enough but this is for seasonal jobs! It’s a very hit or miss scenario at workforce in Brooklyn.

This place is amazing! I have been trying to find a job forever and FINALLY I have one all thanks to this company the wonderful Michael Salazar.
I found the place completely by accident while job hunting online and went in the next day. Had a group interview and then landed three job interviews even before the next day. Went to each and received not one but two job offers! This was all in less then a week! I’m so happy! Thank you Workforce One!