Job training from home with Metrix

Job training from home with Metrix

The Herkimer, Madison, Oneida and Chenango, Delaware & Otsego Workforce Board now offer Metrix online training free of charge for those out of work due to the pandemic.

Board is preparing for what could be a surge of people, all at once, looking for employment when the state reopens.

The agency, locally, is launching something called metrix.

It gives people access to several potential career paths....and the job openings in those categories.

--office work, i-t, healthcare....you name it!

There are also certificates you can earn, online, from the safety of your home.....to improve your skill level.

Alice savino 2:03 this gives people something to do, accomplish something while they're there.

We all have a little more time.

It can show an employer that you wanted to do self improvement during this time 2:16 during this break 2:18 savino says not everyone is in a hiring freeze right now.

Grocery stores, distribution centers and health care facilities - for example - are searching for workers.

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