Iowa Workforce Wire

SkillBridge Brings Navy Vet Back Home – to a New Career

Dalton Bootsma returned to Iowa after the Navy thanks to a federal program that lets military spend their last six months on duty working for private companies.

Mobile Barbering Gives Des Moines Man a Path Around Disability

Vocational Rehabilitation Services Self-Employment program helped Jake Sahr get around his physical limitations by becoming a mobile barber.

Work-Based Learning Success Story: How Interstates Successfully Hires Both Youth and Adults as Apprentices

Like other Iowa employers, Interstates faces a shortage of qualified applicants, so it’s now building upon proven work-based learning solutions.

Voc Rehab Helps Sioux City Man Roll Out New Food Truck Business

The Vocational Rehabilitation Services Self-Employment Program helped a Richard Hull launch his own food truck business.

With IowaWORKS Assist, Returning Citizen Finds Sandwich Success

IowaWORKS helped Ray Miller start a new career after leaving prison. Now, he's helping others.

Broadlawns Changes Lives While Building Nursing Pipeline

Broadlawns Medical Center is using registered apprenticeship to build its nursing pipeline while also helping its neighbors launch promising careers.

Self-Employment Helps Environmental Expert Overcome Disability

Vocational Rehabilitation Self-Employment program helps consultant overcome threats from her environment, reinvigorate career.

Working Together to Help Iowans with Disabilities Find Careers

Garrett Pierce is on his way to a promising career – thanks, at least partly, to a concentrated effort by several units of Iowa Workforce Development.

Ballard Voc Rehab Job Candidate is First to Complete Meat-Cutting Apprenticeship

Caleb Isaacson, a job candidate with IWD's Vocational Rehabilitation Services, recently is the first person to complete a meat-cutting apprenticeship program.

Externship Helps Waterloo Man Work Around Job Interviews

Vocational Rehabilitation Services helped a Waterloo man overcome disability-related challenges with job interviews.