Merrick’s Career Resource Center enables residents to identify and secure a career in the field of their choice. Trained employment specialists will assess participants’ work skills, interests, and education to help them successfully navigate the employment search and interviewing process.

Career Assistance with the following:

  • Job Search
  • Digital Literacy Skills
  • Partner Referrals
  • Workshops in Resume Writing, Cover Letter Writing, and Interviewing Skills

See below for upcoming workshops and events!

Technology/Career Lab Hours by appointment 

MERRICK IS CLOSED ON FRIDAYS.

Please contact Alison Hruby via email at ahruby@merrickcs.org or call 651-243-6725 to set up an employment related appointment.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Confirmed Employers Attending:

  • AT&T
  • Lifespark
  • Innovize
  • Goodwill-Easter Seals (Jobs & Services)
  • Presbyterian Homes
  • State Farm
  • RTD Services
  • Express Pros – Woodbury
  • Marsden Services
  • TPI Hospitality
  • MNDOT (Training Programs and Jobs)
  • Morrisey Hospitality/St. Paul Hotel
  • Talent Masters Staffing
  • A photographer from Elpis Enterprises will be there to take LinkedIn headshots!

ADDITIONALLY: Metro Transit will be hosting a “How to Ride the Bus Session” and giving out 1 FREE RIDE PASS to each person who attends the brief session. This includes: 1. How to plot your route. 2. How to make a transfer. 3. How to board and get off the bus. 4. Address any questions or anxieties you have about riding the bus. 

March Career Workshop

TRAINING PROGRAMS

MCS Career Pathway Program

EAST SIDE EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGE (xChange)

The xChange is a collaboration of 11 non-profit organizations helping East Side Saint Paul residents through a coordinated effort to provide outreach, skills training, life coaching, and various community supports.  East Side residents who choose to connect with Merrick’s employment programs enjoy the benefits of working with employment specialists who are connected across a large network of providers, giving you the job/education/skills seeker access to this broad network and all of its resources.

Through talent sourcing and employer partnership building, the xChange brings organizations and employers together to help workers succeed.

See xChange Introductory document HERE.

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS

Merrick Community Services is an inclusive environment committed to serving diverse individuals, organizations and communities. Merrick Community Services is an equal opportunity employer committed to equal treatment of all employees without regard to race, national origin, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, physical or mental disability or other basis protected by law.