About the Monterey County Workforce Investment Board (WIB)

The Monterey County Workforce Investment Board (WIB) serves as a vehicle to mobilize and integrate private and public partners to effectively educate, train and place individuals with the necessary resources and skills to fulfill employer needs. We offer a dynamic and comprehensive workforce investment system through our One-Stop Career Centers throughout Monterey County located in Salinas, Seaside and King City.

The One-Stop Career Centers embrace all segments of our cities and communities, is proactive, customer oriented, user friendly and produces positive results for job seekers and employers.

Our progressive One-Stop Career Centers connect job seekers to valuable services that include the use of our resource room and computers, job search skills workshops, information on training and education, referrals to partner agencies and community resources and labor market information on growth industries in Monterey County.

Employment and training services are provided to a diverse spectrum of residents through a unique combination of comprehensive and satellite One Stop Career Centers as well as specialized programs provided by our 16 local partners and subcontractors. Three of the partners consist of the major stakeholders and investors of the One Stop Career Centers. They include the Office for Employment Training (OET), Employment Development Department (EDD) and the Monterey County Department of Social and Employment Services (DSES) California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) Employment Services (CWES).

The WIB is part of the county's new Economic Development Department with Housing and Redevelopment.