Digital Works | Job Creation Program | Connecting People & Jobs

Welcome to Digital Works

Digital Works goes beyond training and placement to encompass high-demand, telework professions.

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Learn how communities, nonprofits, government agencies, and individuals, including senior citizens, military spouses and veterans, and young adults, can access this training or bring it to their area.

Digital Works is now offering virtual job training. These classes are being taught online over the course of two weeks and the program is being expanded and offered to military families and veterans living in Kentucky.

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Frequently Asked Questions?

What is Digital Works?

Developed by Connected Nation to meet a growing need, Digital Works goes beyond training and placement to encompass high-demand, telework professions. All of the jobs are remote, economic-base, and in-demand positions—providing new employment opportunities and a larger tax base for the local community. Training is supported through Connected Nation’s online-learning platform, called Drive, which also provides ongoing education after graduation.

Placement and Employers

Digital Works training and mentoring is designed for placement in typically a 4-6 week cycle with a conservative 80% placement rate. Because Digital Works facilitators mentor graduates through their careers and promote a co-working peer network, retention is typically high and advancement is often quick depending on the skill and will of each participant. Digital Works has established relationships with more than 70 employers across the country and customizes its training so graduates are learning the skills companies are searching for in employees. This job creation model is coupled with our long-term experience in mentoring remote workers through career changes and challenges — making Digital Works a workforce and economic development program for the modern era.

Supporting Military Spouses in Flexible Careers

Being a military spouse brings with it some unique challenges — especially when it comes to finding and keeping a job through the various moves and base assignments Digital Works now makes it possible to get a flexible job you love — and take it with you when and wherever duty calls next. Our training and mentoring is designed for quick job placement, typically within a 2 week cycle with a conservative placement rate of 80%!

Why Digital Works is a Good Fit for Veterans

It takes a certain kind of person to serve — someone who is committed, a problem-solver, and able to adapt to and overcome new challenges. These are just some of the soft and life skills learned in the military that make most veterans a perfect match for the modern workforce. Digital Works has established relationships with more than 70 employers across the country and customizes its training so YOU are learning the skills companies are searching for in employees.

Workforce Development Tailored to Your Community

Digital Works fills the need not met through traditional recruiting, hiring, and training channels. The program is community-driven and provides a workforce development platform that can be tailored to large, urban settings, small towns, rural counties, statewide programs, or individually in a brick-and-mortar or virtual setting. Whatever your community situation –Digital Works is equipped to address it.

The New Job Market

The workforce itself and the needs of employers have changed, but many communities are still operating on the old formula. Traditionally, workforce development focused on bringing companies to an area through tax breaks and other incentives. But a recent study conducted by researchers from Purdue University and Oklahoma State University shows that to focus solely on that approach means missing a big economic opportunity through teleworking and telecommuting. “We found that both salaried and self-employed teleworkers are seeing a positive impact on their median household income. What communities and states need to do now is modify their economic and workforce development policies— to nurture, attract, and retain teleworkers,” said Dr. Roberto Gallardo | PCRD

What People Say!

Suzann Pittman

Military Spouse

"A lot of military families move a lot and every couple of years you’re going across the country or across the world and you can take this with you and you won’t have to get a new job. Plus, you don’t have to buy a wardrobe and pay for gas and lunches and day care and all that. It’s just so much money saved."

Paula Clark

Veteran and Military Spouse

"I even reached out to my daughter because she’s a military spouse and I said ‘this is great. If you can get into this program, learn a job, get a job working from home, whenever you move to a new duty station, you go overseas, whatever the case may be, you still have a job."

Christine Mahoney

Grew up in a military family

"It’s a three or four work program and it’s worth it. You can start applying in that fourth week."

Wendy Dickens

Military Spouse

"Military spouses really need a boost. They need to get back into the workforce and some of them don’t have any other way to get the skills that they need or don’t know where to go. I think it’s a great thing Digital Works is doing to help military spouses move forward."

Linda Hunter

Military Spouse

"What Digital Works is doing is they’re setting up military spouses and veterans for working from home."

Penny Rowland

Digital Works Graduate

"Digital Works has the ability to change entire communities because it opens the door for people in a small town to find real work with a schedule that works for them as well as potentially better pay."

Will Yarborough

Digital Works Graduate

"A veteran or someone in the active military is a perfect match for online jobs. You’re a part-time soldier, part-time civilian, and you have to work for a company that makes that possible and understands this. I was working at Pizza Hut, and it just wasn’t enough to make a living wage. Digital Works changed that."

Jen Sherwood

Mother of Two and Digital Works Graduate

"The Digital Works program has given me an opportunity to be a full-time mom and earn a full-time paycheck!"

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