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Work-based Learning
Our work-based learning (WBL) program provides students with opportunities to link their career technical training with practical, on-the-job activities. Students participating in WBL improve their work habits and attitudes, identification of goals and aptitudes, and the motivation to complete and further their education.
Work-based Learning
Our work-based learning (WBL) program provides students with opportunities to link their career technical training with practical, on-the-job activities. Students participating in WBL improve their work habits and attitudes, identification of goals and aptitudes, and the motivation to complete and further their education.
St. Louis Job Corps Center
career vocational training
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Advanced Manufacturing
Welding
Average salary: $42,000 per year
Length of training: Completion times vary by training area. Check with your admissions advisor.
Participants will learn the most commonly utilized welding processes including welding terminology, weld design, welding safety, electrical theory, the weldability of metals, and welding quality control.
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Construction
Bricklayer
Average salary: $53,000 per year
Length of training: Completion times vary by training area. Check with your admissions advisor.
Job Corps’ Bricklayer Masonry program is a Trainee, Pre-Apprentice program offered through the International Masonry Institute (IMI).
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Construction
Building Construction Technology
Average salary: $36,000 per year
Length of training: Completion times vary by training area. Check with your admissions advisor.
Job Corps’ Building Construction Technology program is a Pre-Apprentice training program offered by Home Builders Institute (HBI).
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Construction
Carpentry
Average salary: $48,000 per year
Length of training: Completion times vary by training area. Check with your admissions advisor.
Job Corps offers a basic Carpentry program and a Carpentry, Pre-Apprentice program through United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (UBCJA). All training programs are hands-on and are similar in curriculum and requirements.
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Construction
Cement Masonry
Average salary: $44,000 per year
Length of training: Completion times vary by training area. Check with your admissions advisor.
As a cement mason, your job will include filling roads, driveways, sidewalks, bridges, foundations, and parking lots with cement. You will also make concrete beams, columns, and panels.
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Construction
Painting
Average salary: $40,000 per year
Length of training: Completion times vary by training area. Check with your admissions advisor.
Painters prepare and paint interior and exterior surfaces on residential and commercial properties. Most painters learn their trade on the job or through an apprenticeship.
*Painting is a Pre-Apprenticeship program, which offers students the hands-on training and education needed to qualify for apprenticeships.
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Construction
Plastering
Average salary: $45,000 per year
Length of training: Completion times vary by training area. Check with your admissions advisor.
Plastering involves applying interior and exterior plaster, cement, stucco, or similar materials to coat internal walls and ceilings.
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Finance and Business
Office Administration
Average salary: $34,000 per year
Length of training: Completion times vary by training area. Check with your admissions advisor.
Office administrators perform daily duties that include financial planning, record keeping, billing, personnel, inventory, and logistics, within a business.
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Healthcare
Certified Nurse Assistant
Average salary: $39,000 per year
Length of training: Completion times vary by training area. Check with your admissions advisor.
Home health aides are non-licensed members of the home care team that assist patients who wish to receive care in the comfort of their own home with daily living.
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Healthcare
Pharmacy Technician
Average salary: $33,000 per year
Length of training: Completion times vary by training area. Check with your admissions advisor.
Under the direction of a pharmacist, a pharmacy technician will measure, mix, count out, label, and prepare medications. They also often interact with patients and answer their questions.
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Homeland Security
Security and Protective Services
Average salary: $30,000 per year
Length of training: Completion times vary by training area. Check with your admissions advisor.
Guard, patrol, detect, deter, observe, report, protect, and monitor premises, to prevent theft, violence, or infractions of rules.
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Hospitality
Culinary Arts
Average salary: $24,000 per year
Length of training: Completion times vary by training area. Check with your admissions advisor.
A culinary artist wears many hats including chef and cook. They are responsible for not only making the food taste great but making it look fabulous as well.
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Transportation
Material Handling and Distribution Operations
Average salary: $31,000 per year
Length of training: Completion times vary by training area. Check with your admissions advisor.
Materials handlers oversee the process of taking materials from one location to another as well as extracting and loading the materials to be transported.
Learn MoreKeep in mind that details will vary depending on your specific background, goals, and interests.
A Job Corps recruiter can help you get all the answers you need.
Advanced Career Vocational Training
is also available. See details on the Connect page.
