Workforce Development Center

The City of Alexandria's Workforce Development Center (WDC), offers staffing solutions that provide businesses with employees who are skilled and ready to work. As a certified One Stop Center, WDC serves a variety of skill levels from those with advanced degrees and many years of experience to those with limited education and work experience.
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Job Seeker Start

Job Seekers Start Here

Search for a job, post your resume and research programs and services. 

Businesses Start Here

Businesses Start Here

Post a job, find qualified candidates, access labor market information. 

Featured Events and Jobs!

Weekly featured jobs found through the Workforce Development Center and local partnering businesses

Featured Events and Jobs!

WDC Programs & Services

Programs and services to assist adults, youth and persons with disabilities in finding employment.
WDC Programs & Services

Assistance for Workers and Job Seekers

Employment assistance and information for workers and job seekers impacted by the COVID 19 crisis in Alexandria.
Job Search Assistance

WDC Business Services

The City of Alexandria Workforce Development Center offers businesses many resources at no cost.
WDC Business Services

Work-Based Learning Program

The City of Alexandria Workforce Development Center's Work-based Learning Project provides a three-month educational real-life work experience.
Work-Based Learning Project

WDC Partners

Information about the Workforce Development Centers partners.
WDC Partners

Strive & Thrive: Helping Alexandria Stay Resilient & Get Back to Work

Strive & Thrive

Workforce Development News

We Are Moving WDC

We Are Moving!

Read about the Workforce Development Center's 2023 move to a new location and see answers to frequently asked questions.

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Virginia Career Works Referral Portal

Connect to education, career and other support resources here in the City of Alexandria, surrounding areas, regional, and state-wide.

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The Work-Based Learning Program is Now Open for Alexandrian Applicants to Apply

The City of Alexandria Workforce Development Center's Work-based Learning Program provides a three-month educational real-life work experience where you can apply your knowledge and skills to help increase your employment opportunities. Apply today!

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Online Job Board

Learn more and apply online to job opportunities here in the City of Alexandria and surrounding areas. 

Workforce Development Center: Helping Alexandria Strive & Thrive

The City of Alexandria's Workforce Development Center (WDC), a proud partner of the American Job Center network, offers staffing solutions that provide businesses with employees who are skilled and ready to work. As a certified One Stop Center, WDC serves a variety of skill levels from those with advanced degrees and years of experience to those with limited education and experience. We provide services and resources for job seekers including access to our Career Center,  career readiness workshops, career assessments and customized hiring events.

WDC provides a range of business services at no cost to businesses, including job placement, recruitment, labor market information and certified Business Services Specialists to assist in workforce planning. WDC operates the Virginia Initiative for Employment not Welfare (VIEW) Program, Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA - Adult Employment, Dislocated Worker and Youth and Young Adult), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Employment Training (SNAPET), TeensWork! (public and private programs), Refugee Employment Program, Disability Employment and Veteran Services.

Workforce Development Center: Helping Alexandria Strive & Thrive

Strive & Thrive is the Workforce Development Center's commitment to deliver services and programs remotely and online in order to reach more residents and employers seeking assistance during COVID-19. Learn how to access employment services, job readiness and essential skills workshops, information sessions, plus one-to-one job coaching and guidance to accessing financial resources. In-person services are now available as well as continued services remotely and online. 

 

WDC Community Resources

WDC Community Resources

Alexandria City Public Schools - Adult Learning Center

1340 Braddock Place, 7th floor

Alexandria, VA 22314

Phone: 703.619.8027 

www.acps.k12.va.us/adulted

 

Alexandria Library

Charles E. Beatley, Jr. Central Branch Library

5005 Duke Street

Alexandria, VA 22304

www.alexandria.lib.va.us/client/home 

Offers the following NO COST Events:

  • ESL Workshops click here for the schedule

  • Tech Zoo click here for the schedule

  • Basics of Conflict Resolution click here for the schedule

 

Ellen Coolidge Burke Branch Library

4701 Seminary Road

Alexandria, VA 22304

www.alexandria.lib.va.us/client/home 

Offers the following NO COST Events:

  • ESL Workshops 

  • Computer Class Databases 

  • eBook 

  

Career One Stop - Job Search Help for Ex-Offenders

www.careeronestop.org/ExOffender/index.aspx

Email: info@careeronestop.org

Phone: 1.877.348.0502

TTY: 1.877.348.0501

 

Catholic Charities - Christ House

131 S. West Street

Alexandria, VA 22314

Phone: 703.548.4227 (Monetary Assistance)

Phone: 703.549.8644 (Shelter)

www.ccda.net/programs_christhouse.php 

Services provided: Food, Shelter, Clothing, including clothing for job interviews, and emergency financial assistance

 

Computer Core

201 N. Union St., Suite 110

Alexandria, VA 22314

Phone: 703.931.7346

www.computercore.org

 

Department of Community and Human Services

2525 Mt. Vernon Avenue

Alexandria, VA 22301

Phone: 703.746.5700 

www.alexandriava.gov/DCHS

 

Elevate Virginia a powerful public-private partnership that manifests itself in a network of high quality, agile, and responsive workforce development programs.

300 Arboretum Place, Suite 200 
Richmond, VA 23236
Phone 804.819.1680

www.elevatevirginia.org 

 

Military Connection is a leader in the military and veteran realms for connecting prime military candidates with outstanding career opportunities in both the government and civilian sectors.

Phone: Toll-Free - 800.817.3777

www.MilitaryConnection.com

 

National Older Worker Career Center

National Headquarters
3811 North Fairfax Drive
Suite 900
Arlington, VA 22203

Phone:703.558.4200

www.nowcc.org

 

Northern Virginia Community College

Phone(s): 703.323.3000 or 877.408.2028 

www.nvcc.edu/index.html 

 

Northern Virginia Family Services - Training Futures

8603 Westwood Center Drive, Suite 300

Vienna, VA 22182

Phone: 571.748.2864

www.nvfs.org/trainingfutures

 

 

O.A.R. (Offender Aid and Restoration)

1400 N. Uhle Street, Suite 704

Arlington, VA 22201

Phone: 703.228.7030

www.oaronline.org

 

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs - VA Careers

www.vacareers.va.gov/

 

Virginia Wounded Warrior Program

900 East Main Street, 6th Floor-West Wing

Richmond, VA 23219

Phone: 877.285.1299

www.woundedwarriorproject.org/

Contact the Workforce Development Center!