Success — What People Say

Private Sector Employers

"GE has members on CET's boards and committees in their planning and program implementation. Over the years, GE has hired 100 plus trainees from CET. CET continues to be a major employment resource for GE in Santa Clara County."

— General Electric

"In the past, Westinghouse has hired CET graduates into entry level jobs and as we anticipate future openings, we will continue to look to CET as a source of qualified applicants to fill our employment needs."

— Westinghouse

"The Center for Employment Training continues to be viewed as a responsive leader in recognizing the needs of individuals, industry and the community. They provide basic skills which can be used in industry. We look upon CET as a benefit to the community and a friend to our industry!"

— IBM

"GTE-Sylvania has had a long and rewarding association with CET. CET has dedicated trainees who are diligent and thorough in their vocational training of disadvantaged and unemployed people. Their program prepares the students with skills related to the job opportunities in the community."

— GTE-Sylvania

"CET has impressed this Company as a competent and responsive organization that has proven to be a valuable source of entry level workers. We look forward to continuing our relationship with CET."

— Memorex

Policymakers

"The CET program, focusing on disadvantaged workers, many of them welfare recipients, [has] a very encouraging track record in getting people employed because they are working with employers and asking employers what they need and employers are having a major role to play in creating those training programs."

— Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich

CET was referred to as a program of "demonstrated effectiveness" by both House and the Senate.

— Conference Report on the Workforce Development Act of 1996

Newspapers & Magazines

"The private, non-profit CET is what's hot in job training programs. While most other federally funded efforts have flopped, studies have singled out the 26-year-old vocational and educational program as a success in finding lasting, high paying work for high school dropouts and welfare mothers."

— The Wall Street Journal

"This non-profit's emphasis on training the hard-to-employ (including many high school dropouts and unemployed youths) for well paying, in demand jobs has made CET a pacesetter in the job training field."

— Education Week Magazine

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