Success Stories!

Project Advance/Competitive Employment/Customized Employment

Brett is now employed as a Project Manager for the premier vendor of electronic medical records for hospitals and hospital outpatient clinics! He will be leading matrix teams of 4-7 people in system implementation projects. Brett's MBA and professional experience with large-scale implementation initiatives in the health care industry made an outstanding foundation for his new role.

Joe is now employed as a Reserve Agent for one of the country's leading insurance firms! He helps his clients prepare and plan for the future by providing them with an array of insurance products and services, and his extensive operational background in the insurance industry makes him a wealth of information for his company and his clients. Joe's Master's Degree in Organizational Management has been an excellent resource for the challenges of working with a wide variety of people.

JL graduated from San Francisco State with a BA and MA in History. Upon graduation, he found the local job market had dried up and the usual job search techniques were not successful. His vocational rehabilitation counselor referred him to Project Advance, where he learned the networking skills that landed him a job at Stanford University. JL is now a Research Associate working on the Martin Luther King Papers project!

Jessica is now employed at the Cartoon Art Museum and the SF Black and White Gallery! Her cool new job started out an an internship. She is designing websites and banners and brochures for the Cartoon Art Museum; in fact, her work is displayed in the window of the museum. All of this while expanding her own business, Artoons-Portraits, which displayed at the Wondercon conference. For a unique gift idea- check out her artwork at www.artoons-portraits.com . Jessica also designed the artwork for WorkLink's Project Advance brochure!

Peter is now an intern with the San Francisco Unified School district, assisting with Middle School Math! He's preparing to earn his teaching credential for Middle School Mathematics. Peter's educational background includes a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, with a Minor in Mathematics. He discovered his passion for teaching math while working as a Calculus Tutor at San Francisco State University.

Glen is the Defensive Backs coach for the Chabot College Football Team and is actively interviewing at the Parks and Recreation Department of a Bay Area city! He has a great background in coaching and customer service, and enjoyed two years as a Football Scout for the Los Angeles Raiders. Glen's Bachelor's Degree is in Recreational Therapy and he is certified in CPR and First Aid.

Steve's Informational Interview at an award-winning Bay Area Industrial Design firm was a success! He received valuable feedback on his presentation and has been invited back for a second meeting to share the results. Steve has also been receiving rave reviews from Music in Schools Today, where he is managing the entire design and production process of their newsletter and brochure. Steve has a Master's Degree in Industrial Design and has been studying Graphic Design for the past two years.

Customized Employment

Alvin has worked for AMB for over five years. AMB is a real estate investment trust based in San Francisco. AMB contacted WorkLink with a need for a clerical assistant. Alvin’s responsibilities began with a part-time position, managing a central filing room for the Acquisitions department, which included collecting and filing all inactive submissions, sending old files to storage and pulling files requested by managers. Because of Alvin’s success with this task, other departments also requested assistance from him. In one year Alvin’s administrative support position grew from 20 to 40 hours a week and Alvin became a fully benefited employee. Now Alvin’s responsibilities are quite varied. As well as his responsibilities in the Acquisitions department, he works across many departments and does most of the filing, copying and collating at AMB. He is also solely responsible for sorting through their considerable amount of mail. Alvin’s position allows the very busy administrative assistants at AMB to prioritize their own time in a much more efficient manner, which essentially benefits the whole company.

Tryn works for Foote, Cone & Belding in San Francisco. FCB is an international, award-winning Advertising Agency. She is a new addition to their HR administrative staff, and has proven to be very helpful across other departments as well. Tryn recently worked for A.C.T. (American Conservatory Theatre) in San Francisco as a part-time office assistant. The skills she learned at A.C.T. made it easy for her to find a new job where her skills could be utilized. FCB’s needs were for someone to come in and maintain and clear their backlog of filing, data entry and collating projects. FCB is very happy to have her as a part of their team, and Tryn is quoted as saying, “I love working here. Just saying that I am an FCB office assistant makes me smile.”

Robert is a comic expert and has a BA in English. Taking into consideration his interests and education, WorkLink contacted VIZ Communications, INC., based in San Francisco. VIZ is the leading U.S. publisher of Japanese animation and comics for English-speaking audiences. VIZ had a large backlog of subscription and fan mail, and nobody with the time and knowledge to complete and maintain this project. Robert is now solely responsible for maintaining and sorting through this mail, as well as determining the winners of the various art contest submissions. He is also part of the team of editors who proofread the final copy before it goes to print, and often writes reviews to be published in their various Anime series. Robert has become an integral and valued part of VIZ’S diverse office culture.