Diversity and Equal Opportunity Statement

MassHire North Central has a long-standing commitment to a strong and effective Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action (EEO/AA) policy. The goal is to ensure that the Career Center fully meets the needs of all of its employees in areas of recruitment, training, promotion, transfer, career counseling and reasonable accommodation regardless of race, age, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status or disability.

Non-discrimination Statement

MassHire North Central does not discriminate on the basis of race, age, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status or disability. The Commission complies with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, related Executive Orders 11246 and 11375, Sections 503 and 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 402 of the Vietnam Era Veteran’s readjustment Act of 1974, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, as amended, Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, and all civil rights laws and executive orders of the State of Massachusetts which pertain to affirmative action and non-discrimination. Accordingly, equal opportunity of employment shall be extended to all persons and the Career Center shall promote equal opportunity and treatment through a positive and continuing affirmative action program. In order to assist the Career Center in meeting its affirmative action responsibilities, persons with disabilities, ethnic minorities, women, Vietnam-era veterans and other qualified protected class members are encouraged to apply and to so identify themselves.

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in employment and public services provided by government agencies. If consumers or employees of the Center believe that they have been discriminated against on the basis of disability, they should contact:

Primary Complaint Officer, Staci Johnson, Supervisor, Department of Career Services, 978-534-1481, x240, [email protected].

Privacy policy for CareerOneStop websites

Thank you for visiting one of the CareerOneStop sites, which include the Credentials Center, the Business Center, GetMyFuture, Job Search Help for Ex-Offenders, mySkills myFuture, Worker ReEmployment, Veterans ReEmployment, Disaster Recovery Services, and America’s Career InfoNet.

Our privacy policy is clear: we will collect no personal information about you when you visit any of our websites unless you choose to provide that information to us, nor will we share that information with any other party except as discussed below.

INFORMATION COLLECTED AND STORED AUTOMATICALLY

While you browse through our website, read pages, or download information, we gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store the following information about visits made to our website:

• The IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which our website is accessed;
• The type of browser and operating system used to access our site
• The date and time our site is accessed
• The pages visited
• If a CareerOneStop website is visited from another website, the address of that website

We aggregate this information and use it to help us make our site more useful to visitors — to learn about the number of visitors to our site, to determine those portions of our site which are of greatest interest to our users, and to learn about the types of technology our visitors use.

USE OF COOKIES

CareerOneStop uses cookies to measure website activity. Cookies are small amounts of information stored on your computer by your web browser software. None of the information collected is personally identifiable. CareerOneStop, America’s Career InfoNet, America’s Service Locator and mySkillsmyFuture websites use both single session temporary cookies and multi-session persistent cookies for the purpose of website measurement.

Single session cookies are temporarily stored on your computer and are deleted as soon as you close your web browser. Multi-session cookies are used for the purpose of web measurement, and to improve your online experience by remembering your online interactions and preferences across multiple sessions, and identify if you are a returning user. None of the information stored in either single session or multi-session cookies used by CareerOneStop contain any personally identifiable information. Information collected for web measurement is stored and maintained indefinitely for the purpose of historical web measurement and tracking.

If you prefer not to have non-personally identifiable persistent multi-session cookies stored on your computer you can opt out. Doing so will not affect your use of our site, nor restrict your access to any site content or resources. Click here to opt-out of multi-session usage tracking.

Or, you can remove or block the use of multi-session web measurement technologies by changing the settings of your browser as described at USA.gov’s web measurement and customization opt-out web page.

INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM EMAILS

All e-mail information provided to America’s Career InfoNet, and America’s Service Locator (as a part of a mailing list or as feedback to our Service Center) is only used for the provided purpose. We do not share our e-mail with any other organizations, unless we are required to as part of a law enforcement investigation.

SECURITY, INTRUSION, AND DETECTION ISSUES

For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this government computer system employs software programs that monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.

Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits. Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES

Our Web site has links to other federal agencies and private organizations. When you link to another site, you are no longer on our site and are subject to the privacy policy of the new site.

DISCLAIMER

These Web sites were created to support public access to career and occupational information. The information was created and is maintained by other public and private organizations and is the responsibility of these organizations. The accuracy of the information for individual occupations is subject to error because of the many factors that affect the economy over time. While occupational projections and related job outlook information can provide valuable inputs to the career decision-making process, they should not be the sole basis of a career choice.

Further, the inclusion of links to particular items or sites is not intended to reflect their importance, nor is it intended to endorse any views expressed or products or services offered by the author of the reference or the organization operating the server on which the reference is maintained.

Privacy Policy for Mass.Gov sites

Many of our links take you to Mass.Gov web pages. Click here for the Mass.gov privacy policy.

Accessibility Policy for CareerOneStop Websites

CareerOneStop is committed to making all of our websites and related documents accessible to everyone.

The documents on our site are in many formats and we strive to make them accessible to people who use screen reading software and to those with other vision or mobility impairments. Generally, we use Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) to create pages and documents that are accessible to that segment of our customer base. In creating HTML documents, we follow Section 508 standards; for example, we include alternate text to describe graphics.

Currently, our website contains documents in Adobe Acrobat PDF file format. Most PDF files will be accessible to those who use assistive technology such as screen readers. Some legacy or software created PDF files may not be accessible. If you are experiencing difficulty reading any PDF files please email the CareerOneStop helpline at [email protected] and we will be happy to send you an alternate version.

All applets, plug-ins, or other applications required to access links on CareerOneStop webpages can be downloaded via links from this page. Note that these links are to non-government sources. CareerOneStop does not endorse any of these products. Address questions about the particular plug-in or file viewer to the respective vendor.

ACCESSIBILITY AIDS: PLUG-INS AND FILE VIEWER

• Adobe Reader
  Use Adobe Acrobat to read Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
  Download Adobe Reader
• Flash Player
  Use Adobe Flash player to view Video.
  Download Macromedia Flash Player
• Microsoft Word
  Microsoft offers Word file viewer and converter programs to enable those who do not have MS- Word or have another version of MS-Word to open and view MS-Word files.
  Download Word file Viewer
• Microsoft Excel
  Microsoft offers Excel file viewer and converter programs to enable those who do not have MS-Excel or have another version of MS-Excel to view MS-Excel files.
  Download Excel file viewer
• Microsoft PowerPoint
  Microsoft offers PowerPoint file viewer and converter programs to enable those who do not have MS-PowerPoint or have another version of MS-PowerPoint to view MS-PowerPoint files
  Download PowerPoint file viewer

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WHAT TO DO IF YOU HAVE TROUBLE

If you have a problem viewing any material on this site, please email us at [email protected]. If you have problems with a particular plug-in or viewer, please use the contact information on the download page.