Queens Workforce1

I don’t see why anybody is complaining about workforce 1. A lot of my friends got jobs through it. People just expect the organization to do everything for them, but in reality there are over 200,000 members doing anything they can to just be seen. These people reviewing 1 or 2 stars never knew they can just go to the website and visit any workforce one available in the 5 boroughs. I myself barely ever got any emails. There will be screenings for at least 2 jobs you’d want and qualify for every week. I personally went after 3 tries, never gave up and now I have a job at the airport. I will defiantly be coming back.
You show your face, they see your name. Consistently, that’s how they know you’re serious. Just keep going and they will try their best to get you a job.
Also a fair warning is when you show up to pre screenings, come in early, sit straight and lay away your phones, because people are observing you.

The other reviews are by people who do not want jobs bad enough or in all honesty don’t have the skills or experience a high paying job would want. All this complaining is done by those who don’t understand just how hard it is to get a job.
Stop looking at the Workforce 1 as the quick fix to get a job. You are not promised a job because you dealt with the hours of waiting and paperwork. It is what it is.
Yes, you do have to take an annoying registration class that is about 2 hours. Yes, they ask a lot of questions. Yes, you will be told to wait.
It’s basically a place where if you do not possess basic knowledge of the job market you will hate it.
Fix up your resume! Hope to make a connection with the people there and maybe they will expedite the pricess for you! Dress professionally!!! Leave the damn attitude and polo jeans at home! Groom yourself and maybe hit the gym for a week or two so you are in good spirits when you come in. Come in for the interview and ace it!
I went in to workforce 1 twice. The first day i registered and printed all that I needed and made plenty copies. The second day I did two interviews and got one of the jobs.
The only reason I give this place a 4 and not a 5 because I had to sit through that damn registration with a classroom full of grown adults who could not follow directions AND 1 of the guards didn’t know what he was talking about when giving directions to the bathroom and I really had to go.
I’m 23 and pulled this off, you can too…

Workforce1 is a scam. A waste of your time. A waste of taxpayer money.
Unfortunately, THIS is where the unemployed are forced to go. There are no unemployment offices anymore. The govt contracted out most those services — to Workforce1. And, know this — The unemployed are NOT the clients of Workforce1. The business community is. Doubt me? Its true that Workforce1 is located at all the old unemployment offices — but they are actually in partnership with the NYC Department of Small (and Large) Business Services. You can look it up. The workers of Workforce1 may pretend otherwise — most of them pretend to be government employees. They arent.
The official line is that Workforce1 exists to help the unemployed find jobs. They force you to give them your resume, which they will criticize. Maybe they will force you to go to one of their bogus job skills seminars. They will put you on their email list and add you to their ‘SMART job-​matching’ system. They call it ‘smart’ but all they do is email you jobs a bunch of part-​time and temp sales jobs which don’t match anything on your resume. Really — I’ve been in their system for MONTHS — I HAVENT RECEIVED ONE full-​time, real job that I was remotely qualified for.
Workforce1 exists to funnel the most desperated people into the lowest paying dead end jobs that exist. Truth.
They also have «recruiting events.» Try to avoid those cattle calls. They will force you to wear a suit just to get in — keep in mind that these are for home health care aide jobs and part time sales jobs at the GAP and the like. You probably won’t get an actual interview either. Usually Workforce1 related people will just «prescreen» you. That means they will critique your clothes, your enthusiasm, and maybe your resume. WF1 is big on appearances and enthusiasm. If you are lucky, the prescreening process will lead to a REAL interview weeks or months down the line.
Every recruiting event is the same old list of dead-​end, low pay, temp and PT job for the same old employers — Appco (a Scam — don’t drink the appco koolaid), the Gap, Banana REpublic, etc. — and home health care aides. The recruitment paper always lists these requirements — you must be enthusiastic, fashion-​foward, and available ²⁴⁄₇.
Good things at Workforce1? -
free faxing for the unemployed
computers
and some of their employees actually mean well
But don’t expect much else. You might think WF1 would be a clearinghouse of training or educational opportunities. You’d be wrong. I got nothing from the Jamaica office. They said the’d call me back with training or educational opportunities. They didn’t.
Honestly, once they get your resume Workforce1 will happily forget you. Then a few months later NYS will send you a letter telling you to report back to WF1 or your unemployment benefits will be cut off. So, you’ll go back. And the Workforce1 shuffle will continue.
I wish 60 minutes or ²⁰⁄₂₀ would investigate the scam that is Workforce1.

Sadly this place only offer minimum wage jobs, and they don’t advertise with big companies. I keep seeing the same company every week. It’s sad this place is owned by. Government and yet so useless :(

Knowing a little about this company helps volumes. They aren’t really staffed by the city of NY, rather an outsourced corporation known as «Grant Associates» (no doubt one of the Mayor’s friends companies). They don’t give a rats ass if you get work or not: they are incompetent, ineffective, bloated and bureaucratic. Staff walks around with huge sticks up their posteriors like them talking to you is doing you some kind of favor. Ask about training? They tell you Google it. Why do we need to spend 2 – 4 hours in training for some idiot to tell me to google information they are supposed to provide? They can get away with being useless so that is exactly what they do. Don’t waste your time here.

A dry spell of seven months in 2012 on the Unemployment Line, Queens Workforce1 did very little to benefit my job search. Albeit, their resume workshop and interview workshops at two and half hour each respectively did provide useful insight as I adjust my methods in this 2012 ailing rapid talespin economic decline state. The employers whom they recruit for are mostly industrial and transportation. The only great thing about this employment office is their computer resource facility for one hour of free internet usage including fax machine, copying, and phone calls which all must be job search related.
Staff are RUDE and un-​compasssionate as they process paperwork from job candidates like apathetic robots.

This place rocks. The customer service there is phenomenal. I don’t understand what you guys are talking about, but I have always had a great experience. There is one account manager there that does a great job and goes above and beyond her call of duty. Bbbbrrr bbbrrrr

Workforce 1 — Um-​mm !!! where do I begin. This is the biggest waste of Government funds I’ve have ever seen. The only thing I see with this program is the rich getting richer. Rich individuals invest money into staffing and building programs like workforce 1. then they bill the Government for each person who pass through their doors. They disguise there thievery by giving people the basic education /​Job skills necessary to go out into the workforce and find that minimum wage job. Three things need happen … (1) Your Educated (2) Your trained (3) Your set up with a job opportunity… Not needing to guarantee that you get the job. And thats all is needed to justify their bill to the Government. which could be 10x the cost they spent on you. So to all my people out there who want to get paid … open a school. I don’t care if it’s a school to teach people how to fold sheets — just justify those three things I mentioned and you too can get paid!

**This is for the financial district center but as a whole I think the whole Workforce1 center sucks.
So I go in for a call for administrative assistants. I was the first person there so there wasn’t much of a wait. I sit down with someone with my resume. They basically tell me they have no administrative assistant jobs for me and if I want I can interview to be a door to door printer salesman??? I ended up interviewing for a different retail job, and then after being rejected never heard back from the center. This place does the whole bait and switch. They clearly have open calls for jobs that don’t actually exist and try to sucker people into terrible jobs.

Only been on the transportation side, but my experiance matches with the other reviews. They keep you there doing the same thing. Taking lessons you already took. Misplacing you and your paper work. They treat you like a dummy. More power to those that make it work for them. It sucks for the good in us, but I see why they need to cut funding. They just got some dump ass people working there. But you can pick up a thing or two if you look hard enough. Good place to network just don’t expect much from them.