Brown County Weyers-Hilliard Branch Library launches its JobPod to aid employment seekers, March 20, 2025. PC: Fox 11 Online
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — A new area inside the Brown County Weyers-Hilliard Branch Library is dedicated to assisting community members searching for employment.
Officials gathered Thursday at a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the launch of a JobPod. This is the second site in Brown County; the first JobPod opened in March 2024 at the the Brown County East Branch Library.
JobPod is designed to facilitate easy, reliable access to job search resources and expertise from workforce development professionals, all in a public space. It also aims to break down barriers like transportation and internet availability.
“The JobPod brings together resources and brings those resources out into the communities,” explained Vickie Patterson, executive director of the Bay Area Workforce Development Board. “Not everybody has internet, not everybody is digitally skilled to create a Zoom meeting, all of that.”
So they can go to their local library in their JobPod, and then library staff will help connect them to those services, schedule meetings with [Department of Workforce Development] staff virtually, so they can get all of those services that are offered right there at the convenience of their local library.
In Northeast Wisconsin, there are JobPods in Algoma and Niagara, along with the two in Brown County.
Originally founded from a partnership with the Bay Area Workforce Development Board, Brown County Library, Nicolet Federated Library System and the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, JobPod announced a partnership with Microsoft in October of last year,
It is actively expanding the JobPod pilot program at library sites across Wisconsin.
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