Job Seeker Success Stories

Years after Palatka native Cora Fells connected with CareerSource Northeast Florida (CareerSource NEFL) and received help to earn a culinary degree, she achieved a childhood dream in July 2021: opening her own restaurant in her hometown. Aptly named ‘Cora’s Place,’...

Crystal Norwood is now a traveling nurse and will shortly be receiving her nurse practitioner degree – and she gives CareerSource Northeast Florida (CareerSource NEFL) the credit for getting her started in what has been an exciting, profitable and rewarding career in...

Diona Green was in the customer service field for 15 years when she suddenly became unemployed, but with the help of CareerSource Northeast Florida (CareerSource NEFL), she was sent on the path to transition to become an entrepreneur in the work she really loved:...

Thanks to the Individual Training Accounts (ITAs) offered through CareerSource Northeast NEFL, Arianna Grondin received scholarship assistance to enter the Florida State College at Jacksonville (FSCJ) Nursing Program. Today, she’s a nurse resident at Baptist Hospital...

Deborah Mendoza, now 36, says she has worked since she was about 15 years old – and continued working full-time once she graduated from high school and became a working mother. “I had kids and had to work full time, so at that time, I really didn't have a chance to go...

Nearly 75 people have become certified nursing assistants (CNAs) at Northeast Florida State Hospital in Macclenny, Florida thanks to training funding provided through CareerSource Northeast Florida (CareerSource NEFL). The 600-plus bed hospital has provided continuous...