Kentucky Career Center utilizes VR to ensure a competitive workforce - The Advocate-Messenger - Danville Advocate

NEWS RELEASE

The Kentucky Career Center – Bluegrass present offers vocation exploration and grooming done oculus virtual world headsets. Jobseekers tin research on-the-job scenarios and summation skills done simulated activities utilizing these virtual world headsets.

With virtually hundreds of trainings disposable and much coming successful the outpouring of 2023, jobseekers successful the Bluegrass tin research assorted vocation options, amended their skills, and show their competencies successful a fig of sectors including immoderate sectors seen arsenic precocious request successful Central Kentucky. The six superior sectors are Manufacturing, Skilled Trades, specified arsenic Welding, Construction, Electrical, etc., Warehousing & Storage, Public Safety, Hospitality & Tourism, and Automotive. Each of these sectors provides a assortment of modules that let jobseekers to explore, grow oregon show their skill.

To date, these oculus headsets person been demonstrated chiefly astatine section occupation fairs but are present disposable for usage successful schools oregon by section employers and assemblage organizations, nether the supervision of Kentucky Career Center – Bluegrass staff. There are presently 5 oculus grooming devices accessible by appointment, but the Kentucky Career Center – Bluegrass does person plans to grow that fig erstwhile possible.

Amy Glasscock, Director of Workforce for the Bluegrass Local Workforce Development Area, commented, “I person tried a grooming and was capable to alteration lipid successful a car virtually. I’m excited astir the aboriginal of grooming for jobseekers successful the Bluegrass with the usage of virtual world technology; determination truly is nary limit.”

To docket a objection for your schoolhouse oregon business, delight interaction your section Kentucky Career Center – Bluegrass and sojourn ckycareers.com/vr to spot the afloat database of trainings available.