Career Transitions
As the media industry continues to evolve, many professionals are exploring new career paths both within and beyond traditional entertainment roles. The Career Transitions Expo is designed to help attendees navigate that transition by providing practical guidance, valuable insights from those who have done a career pivot in their past, and opportunities to build new professional connections.
The organizations listed below, including employers, education institutions, and career resources,
will be available during the Networking Reception.
The Hospitality Training Academy (HTA) offers fast, free training to prepare you for great jobs at some of the largest hotels, airports, sports arenas, and food service companies in Southern California.
Before your training even begins, you’ll be matched with an employment specialist, ensuring you have what you need to succeed. And when you graduate, you won’t just have a certificate—you’ll have a path to life-changing career opportunities at one of our partner employers.
Since 1964, AppleOne has connected people with opportunities as a full-service employment company. They don’t just fill positions; they build careers and companies. AppleOne connects the best people whose talent aligns with the needs of companies looking for long and short term hiring solutions. Their services are always free to their associates. The AppleOne experience has been specifically designed to serve as a total employment resource to you no matter where you are in your career.
Local Education Opportunities
The Verdugo Jobs Center is a one-stop career center serving the cities of Burbank, Glendale, and La Cañada Flintridge. We provide our region’s diverse workforce with career counseling, job search assistance, professional development and training opportunities, job fairs, workshops, and more, free of charge. Our career services are suited to a wide variety of individuals, including dislocated workers, military veterans, ex-offenders, high-school dropouts, migrant and seasonal farmworkers, non-English speaking, people with disabilities, public assistance recipients, senior workers, youth, and much more.
The Employment Development Department (EDD) is one of the largest state departments with employees at hundreds of service locations throughout the state. Since 1936, EDD has connected millions of job seekers and employers in an effort to build the economy of the Golden State. Learn more about EDD’s services and resources, such as unemployment insurance, state disability insurance, paid family leave, workforce services, labor market information, and jobs training.
SCORE is a nonprofit organization and a resource partner of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) that provides FREE business mentoring for entrepreneurs and small business owners. Examples of services available through SCORE include providing assistance with starting a business, writing a business plan, developing marketing and sales strategy, helping with planning for expansion, and much more.
Local Employers
For more than 60 years, Allied Universal has been providing proactive security services and cutting-edge smart technology to deliver evolving, tailored solutions that allow clients to focus on their core business. Our technology focus creates additional security and efficiency benefits for customers and increases our ability to differentiate our offering in the security market, which in turn supports our goal of accelerating profitable growth.
Global demand for security services is forecast to rise 3.6% per year to $263 billion in 2024 (Freedonia Global Security Services Report 2020) and we believe that we have the expertise and Global footprint to grow our core security revenues to meet this demand.
Initiating Change in Our Neighborhoods Community Development Corporation (ICON CDC) is a 501(c) (3) community-based, not-for-profit, organization located in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley. For more than twenty years ICON CDC has been creating jobs for low-income individuals through economic revitalization and neighborhood development. ICON CDC provides free services to primarily low- and moderate-income entrepreneurs and small-business owners to promote economic development, job creation, and financial literacy with a focus on job creation and job retention via access to capital.
The University of Redlands Los Angeles (formerly Woodbury University) is a leading private, non-profit institution dedicated to the student experience, located in Burbank. With a low student-to-faculty ratio, students learn from one of the most professionally accomplished faculties in the world, intern and work at the most innovative companies in the world, and go on to build solid careers. The university ranks #40 among U.S. News & World Report’s 2024 Best Colleges - Regional Universities West, in addition to #23 in Best Value Schools and #24 on the Social Mobility Index.
Burbank Adult School will be a student-centered instructional program that responds to District and community needs, actively collaborates with other service providers and demonstrates a commitment to building and enhancing potential through quality educational programs and services. Those seeking to train for a career, improve your existing skills, learn English, complete your high school diploma, earn your high school equivalency, or become a more effective parent, then Burbank Adult School is here for you.