Top Ten Things You Maybe Didn’t Know About The Albert Institute

We’re Going Places with Dress for Success

The Going Places Network by Walmart helps unemployed and under-employed Dress for Success clients gain professional skills, accelerate their job search and build confidence through weekly training sessions, one-on-one career coaching and networking in a supportive environment. The Albert Institute assists in instruction and coordinates job fairs on behalf of Pittsburgh’s GPN graduates!

The Institute Jams with Jessica Lee and Friends

On the second Thursday of every month, The Albert Institute, in partnership with Jessica Lee Jazz Networking, coordinates Career Nights at CJ’s in the Strip.  These evenings have spotlighted local business leaders from UPMC, Farmers Insurance, Goodwill of SWPA and Dress for Success.

Talking All Things Career

The Albert Institute has recently launched a project with KDKA-TV Called Career Talk.  This involves the development of a web resource guide that will feature a weekly webcast, education information and a daily workforce development event calendar.

Speaking to the Globe

 Since 2011, The Albert Institute has led an international dialogue between employers, community groups, colleges, corrections agencies and job seekers via unique webinar series such as The Ex-Offender Employment Series, Spring Into Reentry Conference, and a variety of Virtual Job Fairs.  Participants from several states and as far away as France have been featured.

We Are Often In Prison

Since 2008, The Albert Institute has led instruction for and participated in Offender Employment Specialist training for Bureau of Prisons staff across Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.  In addition we have regularly provided pro bono services to inmates in the form of pre-release classes, mock job fair participation and more!

Job Fairs Galore!

We have regularly set up job fairs for State Representative Dan Deasy, The SWPA Job Developers Association, US Probation & Pretrial Services and many more.

Professor Albert

 Scott Albert, founder of The Albert Institute, has been an adjunct instructor at Everest Institute for over 10 years.  In addition to his teaching role, Scott will often host guest speakers at the college.  These have included but are not limited to IBEX Global, The Omni William Penn, UPMC, US Probation and KDKA-TV.

We Go Clubbin’

In 2006, The Albert Institute introduced the concept of Job Club to the Pittsburgh region.  We simultaneously launched Job Clubs at The McKees Rocks Employment & Training Center and US Probation.  The US Probation Job Club has met every Wednesday since its inception in April of 2006!  Other agencies such as PA’s Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, The Mon Valley Initiative, Goodwill SWPA, PA CareerLink and many, many more have since established Job Clubs of their own.

We’ve Got a Speaker

The Albert Institute has spent a decade lining up interesting guest speakers for various workforce development conferences including the 2009 Defendant/Offender Workforce Development Conference and 2014’s SPARC Conference.  Speakers have included Mel Blount, Bontia Fahy, Paul Sheldon and more!

We Network With a Purpose

For nearly a decade, The Albert Institute has provided a forum through which businesses can communicate about new projects, unique opportunities, staffing challenges and best practices.  An eclectic mix of companies large and small have participated in round table discussions, The SWPSA Business Consortia and, most recently, the Career Talk Employee Referral Network.