Welcome to the Kingstree Workforce Center
Serving Kingstree SC, Williamsburg County, and Surrounding
Areas
The mission of the Kingstree Workforce Center is to provide quality, customer-driven workforce services that promote financial stability
& economic growth.
With that said, we have created an integrated and accountable workforce development system where employers can find qualified workers and job seekers can find good paying jobs. We feel that the quality of our workforce is the key to attracting and retaining business in
Williamsburg County. Our workforce is supported by a development system, second to none, that is market-driven and user friendly. It provides employers with skilled workers through a collaboration of workforce development services offered by a number of
Partners associated with the
Kingstree Workforce Center.
Our agency goals are:
- To Increase awareness of agency programs, services, and policies.
- To effectively serve customers.
- To insure a diverse, motivated,
well-trained workforce empowered to do its job.
- To Provide Effective Service Delivery Systems.
- To increase the overall effectiveness of the Employment Security Commission and its various programs and services.
- To collaborate with internal and external partners to accomplish agency goals.
The Workforce Center is located
at 530 Martin Luther King, Jr. Ave. in Kingstree, SC
Office hours are 8:30am - 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday.
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Our History
The “one-stop” center concept began in 1995 as an initiative proposed by the US Department of Labor. A pilot program began in various states to develop a model for everyone to use. The goal was to bring multiple agencies together under one roof to offer an array of services. The idea being that job seeking customers could go to a One-Stop and look for work, explore education options, obtain local labor market information, seek career counseling, or speak with any of the multitude of other partners associated with “one-stop” system.
Luckily for South Carolina, the wheel did not have to be reinvented, so to speak. The
South Carolina Employment Security
Commission, with its 35 Job Service offices, possessed all the basic criteria needed for the new “one-stop” system. Not only did the Job Service offices around the state possess the basic criteria, they had already developed over a half century’s rapport with the business community and other local, state and federal agencies. It was a logical and cost effective choice to house the new One-Stop system in the South Carolina Employment Security Commission office buildings throughout the state.
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