Job Placement Assistance
At NOVA, our goal is to ensure our participants are prepared for the working world. Together, we’ll pursue every avenue to place you in your first living wage job with benefits and career path. Although we cannot guarantee the securing of positions, NOVA will equip you with the tools to find and maintain desirable employment. NOVA is staffed with full-time professionals that will guide you in building your career.
NOVA assists students and graduates with the following:
- Career planning and advising
- Interviewing skills
- Techniques of resume preparation
- Job Leads
- Completing job applications
- Networking
- Professional attire workshops
- Interview follow-up
- Time management
And remember, NOVA does not stop when you graduate and find employment. Employment assistance is available on an ongoing basis to NOVA Training graduates.
A NOVA Employer Services representative can provide a confidential consultation to answer your questions. Contact us at (318) 855-1923 to learn more or email us at info@novanela.org.
CLIENT’S TESTIMONIALS

"Gardner Denver has had great success with the NOVA program - the candidates we've hired are committed to hard work, to self-improvement, and to the success of our team. We strongly support the mission and intent of NOVA, and it will remain for us a preferred program to depend on for entry-level opportunities to join our team."
Erik Stoor
Director, Operations North America Gardner Denver Thomas
"St. Francis is excited to partner with NOVA as a means to support our organization, our mission, and our community. NOVA provides a unique ability to enhance the abilities and skills of individuals that are needed for them to secure stable employment and economic independence. They have been helpful in connecting our workforce needs to those individuals which allow St. Francis as an organization to provide for our patients and community."
Debbie Horstmann
MBA, SHRM-SCP SPHR | Director, Human Resources St. Francis Medical Center
"As an employer who has been in the paper and plastic industries for some 40+ years. I, along with many other employers, have been concerned about the lack of a skilled workforce in the area of manufacturing in our community. NOVA is an organization that has made great strides in taking individuals who for whatever reason have taken the wrong path in life and need someone to give them guidance and vision in becoming a contributing source in the general workplace."
BIll Kight
President Euroboard Inc.
"As one of Monroe’s larger employers planning to grow locally, CenturyLink recognizes the importance of cultivating a qualified workforce. This is why we support NOVA in its mission to not only prepare individuals in our community for living wage jobs but to also help them secure employment. NOVA is driving economic development and the services it provides are beneficial not only to businesses and individuals but to the entire region.”
Annmarie Sartor
CenturyLink