Because CTC uses “Work Based” curriculum, the Workforce Training program integrates the concepts of career success and academics throughout the school day. In most schools, these areas exist in isolation to each other. At CTC, we make that relationship seamless. The motto of our work-based program is: “Learning to do, doing to earn, earning to live”.

There are three major work experience areas which provide our students work readiness:

1. Weekly Career Awareness Seminars are presented to each of the ESL student groups to orient them to career exploration and the wide variety of job possibilities available in the job world. The weekly seminars also serve to reinforce the primary goal of English mastery and its relationship to success in the workplace. This program takes advantage of Junior Achievement's “Economics of Staying In School” curriculum and “The Job Hunting Handbook”, along with Chad Foster’s “Preparing Students for the World of Work”.

2. The Independent Study Work Experience Program integrates both job attainment and job success training with placement in work sites where students build experience and skills which they can take to the next level after graduating from CTC. Course work includes resume and job interviewing skills, workplace safety, and workplace leadership. Curriculum materials include Junior Achievement's “Personal Economics” and the “Job Hunting Handbook”.

3. Evening Program Work Experience/Career Exploration seminar course.
Because most of the students in the evening program have jobs, it is a combination of career exploration and work related classroom activities designed to assist students in being more effective on the job and to advance in their chosen career areas. Students will use Junior Achievement's curriculum along with a variety of weekly topical seminars to augment work attainment skills, such as: resume writing, interviewing and salary negotiation.

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