About the Monterey County Workforce Development Board (WDB)

The Monterey County Workforce Development Board (WDB) 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 America’s Job Center of California^SM throughout Monterey County located in Salinas, Seaside and King City.

The America’s Job Center of California^SM embraces all segments of our cities and communities, is proactive, customer oriented, user friendly and produces positive results for job seekers and employers.

Our progressive America’s Job Center of California^SM connects 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 America’s Job Center of California^SM as well as specialized programs provided by our 15 local partners and subcontractors. Three of the partners consist of the major stakeholders and investors of the America’s Job Center of California^SM. They include the Office for Employment Training (OET), Employment Development Department (EDD) and the Monterey County Department of Social Services (DSS). California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) Employment Services (CWES).

The WDB is part of the county's Economic Development Department.