Pikes Peak Workforce Center

This center is full of great resources and it's newly remodeled so looks really nice, new and clean. I came in for a resume review meeting and both people I met with were very knowledgeable and helpful. I look forward to using their services more for my job transition and search. They also have computers to use and a great website with a lot of resources. I was able to schedule my resume review online very easily.

I was pretty comfortable with my career at a small but leading consumer packaging goods innovation company in Colorado Springs. But it wasn't growing. I had been there more than eight years and slowly realized that the longer I stayed, the more difficult it would be to advance my career. After all, I had been doing the same job for a while, not gaining major responsibilities. I started looking for another job passively about a year ago, then pushed harder in the Fall of 2021. I had lots of recruiters contacting me. I interviewed once or twice weekly. But I couldn't land that new job -- my lack of experience and time away from the industry I was trying to get back into had taken its toll. I also think there was some ageism going on, too, frankly. I'm in my 50s now. Instead of doing the same thing and expecting a different result (that's insanity), I looked into getting a couple Agile certifications for Product Owner and ScrumMaster. I didn't have the money to pay the fees. My wife had gone back to school, and I was the main bread-winner now. Someone told me that there was COVID-19 grant money available, so I looked at the Pikes Peak Workforce Center programs -- and it just so happened that they had one perfect for me. I applied and got a grant to obtain both certifications, and before I even completed the second one, I had a new job. Thanks to Pedro and everyone at PPWF! Without your help, I couldn't have made this career transition.