Free Training Programs in San Francisco, CA to Help You Get a Job (Quickly)

Have you been looking to learn a new skill necessary to get a job or enhance performance in your current position?

Look no further, I have a comprehensive portfolio you will be interested in.

Even more exciting, all you need is your San Francisco residency and zero money!

In subsequent sections, we will look into how to start, get qualified, find a job and further your career in sectors spanning; logistics, health care, construction, IT and security.

Free CDL Training in San Francisco

This is a certification to start your truck driving career.

Advancements in e-commerce (amazon, eBay etc.) and transport networking (uberfreight, swift etc.) have placed trucking in an indisputable position in facilitating timely deliveries, so it’s safe to guarantee job security now and in the foreseeable future.

To qualify for training must:

1. Be over 18 years.
2. Have a class D license in good standing.
3. Be a California resident, obviously.

All check? Good.

In the next four weeks, you’ll be in the hands of well experienced instructors who will take you through thorough textbook, class and field training sessions after which you will be more than ready to drive trucks, shuttles and school buses in stunning California!

Free CNA Training in San Francisco

This a certification to be a nurse assistant.

In general, it entails taking personal, daily living and medical care of the elderly and patients unable to do so on their own under direct supervision of a Registered Nurse (RN).

To get an idea, some of the routine tasks include handling patients:

• Personal hygiene
• Communications(calls)
• Recording vital signs
• Dressing wounds
• Diet, feeding and nutrition

A high school diploma is the key pre-qualification for the 6-12 week course depending on the program after which you will sit for a state issued exam.

Good salary, rise in employment rate, assured demand, emotional reward and career advancement (to Registered Nurse for example) make the course a no brainer!

Read more about CNA training in California.

Free HHA Training in San Francisco

This is closely related to CNA, except, the services are offered at patient’s homes.

For starters, there’s a comprehensive 4-6 week physical/online lectures along with practical clinical training sessions meant to prepare you for the HHA certification exam offered near where you live.

To qualify, you must:

• Be at least 18 years of age
• Have a high school diploma
• Have a clean criminal record
• Be free of TB

In practice, some of your key responsibilities include:

• Taking care of patient hygiene and housekeeping
• Running errands
• Monitoring patients vitals and recording vitals
• Basic physical therapy
• Running errands

There’s an estimated increase in demand of over 50% by 2020 demand of HHAs making it a promising undertaking!

Free Forklift Training in San Francisco

This is a course structured into lectures and hands-on sessions to build safe, productive folk operation skills necessary to seat for your exams and earn an OSHA compliant certification.

Some of the skills you will learn during the course include:

• Picking/placing loads
• Loading loads on trucks/trailers
• General pre-shift vehicle inspection and refueling.

After successful completion of the several-hour training you will be equipped with all the basic skills to work anywhere, mastery will be built gradually in the field.

Fortunately, a job with decent income is pretty much guaranteed in any of the following sectors:

• Warehousing
• Construction
• Airports
• Shipping and logistics

Free IT Training in San Francisco

This is an entry level course to step into the diverse IT industry.

It’s probably the most promising field based on the increasing integration of technology into almost all sectors of daily living and the economy as a whole.

In this course you will be introduced to the following areas:

• Basic computer operation
• Computer packages(e.g. Microsoft office)
• Simple troubleshooting
• Internet exploration-surfing

Why take this training?

Simple, to stay relevant in this era.

In fact, I’d advise everyone without computer skills, employed or not, to definitely take this course (no matter your field of operation).

The 4-8 week online/physical training handled by experts is surely going to enhance your performance at your current job or open new opportunities in this exciting sector.

Examples of potent areas of operation upon completion include:

• IT receptionist
• Record keeping / data entry
• IT support stuff

Free Phlebotomy Training in San Francisco

This is a certification program to allow you to basically preform skin and vein puncture blood collection from patients in healthcare facilities.

While at it, you’ll also:

• Calm nervous patients
• Label samples
• Determine blood type
• Enter the information in a database
• Maintain equipment

The training takes two weeks spread into the following two 40-hour trainings:

Basic and advanced class sessions
Practical externship in a healthcare facility where most people get jobs

Upon completion, a student is required to complete the California state phlebotomy certification application with all supporting documentation.

To qualify, you must be:

• At least 18 years old
• Hepatitis and TB free
• Have a high school diploma/GED

Read more: Phlebotomy Training in California (Paid Classes Info)

Free Security Training in San Francisco

Are you interested in serving in the security sector?

The security guard position would be a good place to start.

To begin, you need to get your security guard card.

This is achieved in an 8-hour training session followed by an exam.

Easy! Right?

At this point you are not registered however, you can be hired.

Can you get a job though?

Yes, up to $30 an hour in fact.

Here’s why: tough financial state of the government is imposing a reduction in number of security personnel.

Therefore, private companies must supplement the demand.

On the job, two 16-hour trainings, one in the first 30 days and the other within six months should get you registered.

See you around!

The City Build Academy (CBA)

Are you a San Francisco resident interested (with or without experience) the construction industry and don’t know where to start?

I have good news for you.

OEWD in partnership with city college of San Francisco and other stakeholders rolled out a pre-employment construction training program at the Evans campus since 2006.

Below is an overview of how the program is able to accommodate everybody, experienced or not.

Inexperienced

You’ll undergo an 18-week (spring/ summer) training that includes but not limited to:

• Class room sessions that can get you 15 college credits, hurray!
• Hands-on training in all building trades, which are apparently 26.
• Free uniforms and union fees
• Vocational English as a Second Language(VESL)
• Complementary industry certifications like OSHA 10, forklift operation, CPR and First AID and all that good stuff
• Job placement( most importantly)

To be eligible you must be:

• At least 18 year
• A proofed San Francisco residency
• A valid driver’s license holder of least 8th grade reading/math skill level
• Physically fit
• Ace the drug test
• Able to Complete two weeks of job readiness Training

Experienced

The program will let you utilize a vast employment networking service.

To be eligible, you must prove:

• (With domicile documentation) attendance at one information session
• Identity (with completed form)
• San Francisco residency
• Experience in the construction industry

After which you will present your completed certification forms Any Monday from 11:00am to 3:00pm at mission Street Career Link Centre, 3210 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110.

Final Thoughts

With a free starting point, clear route to further career development, decent salary with room for increment with experience, there’s absolutely not a valid excuse not to take up one of the programs.

Let’s get to work!

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