Welcome to Digital Works
Digital Works is a one-of-a-kind job creation program developed by Connected Nation. It 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.
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The Training
Facility-based and virtual training programs are available as well as pay-as-you-go online courses.
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Developed by Connected Nation to meet a growing need, this one-of-a-kind job creation program 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.
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.
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 4-8 week cycle with a conservative placement rate of 80%!
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.
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 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