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Job Corps is the nation's largest FREE education and job training program for young adults.

 
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Work-based Learning

Our work-based learning (WBL) program provides students with opportunities to link their career technical training with practical, on-the-job activities. Students participating in WBL improve their work habits and attitudes, identification of goals and aptitudes, and the motivation to complete and further their education.

Work-based Learning

Our work-based learning (WBL) program provides students with opportunities to link their career technical training with practical, on-the-job activities. Students participating in WBL improve their work habits and attitudes, identification of goals and aptitudes, and the motivation to complete and further their education.

Woodstock Job Corps Center
career vocational training

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Advanced Manufacturing

Welding

Average salary: $42,000 per year

Length of training: Completion times vary by training area. Check with your admissions advisor.

Participants will learn the most commonly utilized welding processes including welding terminology, weld design, welding safety, electrical theory, the weldability of metals, and welding quality control.

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Automotive and Machine Repair

Maintenance Repair Helper, Stationary Engineering

Average salary: $62,000 per year

Length of training: Completion times vary by training area. Check with your admissions advisor.

Stationary engineers are responsible for the safe operation and maintenance of boilers, steam turbines, gas turbines, pumps, gas compressors, generators, motors, air conditioning systems, heat exchangers, refrigeration equipment, hot water generators, and a wide range of other industrial equipment.

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Construction

Bricklayer

Average salary: $53,000 per year

Length of training: Completion times vary by training area. Check with your admissions advisor.

Job Corps’ Bricklayer Masonry program is a Trainee, Pre-Apprentice program offered through the International Masonry Institute (IMI).

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Construction

Building Construction Technology

Average salary: $36,000 per year

Length of training: Completion times vary by training area. Check with your admissions advisor.

Job Corps’ Building Construction Technology program is a Pre-Apprentice training program offered by Home Builders Institute (HBI).

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Construction

Carpentry

Average salary: $48,000 per year

Length of training: Completion times vary by training area. Check with your admissions advisor.

Job Corps offers a basic Carpentry program and a Carpentry, Pre-Apprentice program through United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (UBCJA). All training programs are hands-on and are similar in curriculum and requirements.

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Construction

Electrical

Average salary: $56,000 per year

Length of training: Completion times vary by training area. Check with your admissions advisor.

Job Corps offers a basic Electrical program and an Electrical Trainee, Pre-Apprentice program through Home Builders Institute (HBI). All training programs are hands-on and are similar in curriculum and requirements.

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Finance and Business

Office Administration

Average salary: $34,000 per year

Length of training: Completion times vary by training area. Check with your admissions advisor.

Office administrators perform daily duties that include financial planning, record keeping, billing, personnel, inventory, and logistics, within a business.

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Healthcare

Clinical Medical Assistant

Average salary: $34,000 per year

Length of training: Completion times vary by training area. Check with your admissions advisor.

Medical assistants perform a variety of duties to assist healthcare professionals including scheduling appointments, taking vital signs, succinctly conveying ideas and information to patients. People who work in this field should be good listeners, be able to handle stress, and excel at thinking clearly on the fly.

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Healthcare

Medical Administrative Assistant

Average salary: $34,000 per year

Length of training: Completion times vary by training area. Check with your admissions advisor.

One common job title for this career is medical secretary. Medical administrative assistant duties may include greeting patients, scheduling appointments, filing insurance claims, and answering incoming calls. Day-to-day office functions are part of a medical administrative assistant's tasks.

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Homeland Security

Security and Protective Services

Average salary: $30,000 per year

Length of training: Completion times vary by training area. Check with your admissions advisor.

Guard, patrol, detect, deter, observe, report, protect, and monitor premises, to prevent theft, violence, or infractions of rules.

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Information Technology

Network Cable Installation

Average salary: $57,000 per year

Length of training: Completion times vary by training area. Check with your admissions advisor.

Cable installers work in homes and businesses to install and repair telecommunications cables for phone lines, internet access, and cable television.

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Renewable Resources and Energy

Landscaping

Average salary: $30,000 per year

Length of training: Completion times vary by training area. Check with your admissions advisor.

Responsible for cultivating the landscaping and grounds surrounding private and public facilities and residences. This can including mowing the lawn either by hand or using a riding lawnmower, trimming and edging around walkways, flower beds, and walls, or by beautifying the land by planting flowers, grass, shrubs, and bushes.

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Keep in mind that details will vary depending on your specific background, goals, and interests.
A Job Corps recruiter can help you get all the answers you need.

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