Goodwill’s Job Connection Career Centers: Helping Georgians re-enter workforce

Enhanced unemployment benefits from the CARES Act are ending and forcing many to look for work.

Thousand 798.

Houston county has one thousand 533 cases.

Baldwin county has 863 cases.

And laurens county is at 630.

Enhanced unemployment benefits from the cares act are ending and forcing many to look for work.

Goodwill's job connection career centers extended its hours for those who need job-hunting assistance.

They're also offering virtual services if you feel more comfortable not going into one of their locations.

The centers are open from 8 a.m.

To 5 p.m., but many of the same services are online.

Staff members say you don't want to wait too long to start your job search.

"we are anticipating that next week, once people start to realize that those $600 payments are now being processed, that the number of individuals searching for jobs will increase drastically."

According to goodwill, more than 17,000 people in goodwill's service area benefitted from job connections services