Today’s “Put Your Talent to Work” job and resource expo in San Bernardino, California, kicks off a series of events designed to help workers who have lost their jobs in the mortgage, residential construction, and real estate industries move into in-demand occupations requiring similar skills.

“Governor Schwarzenegger is committing $10 million as part of a Talent Transfer

Initiative to help put Californians who have lost their jobs in the housing market slump back to work,” said the Labor and Workforce Development Agency’s Victoria Bradshaw.

Bradshaw promises that more job expos will be scheduled once a state budget is put in place.

The largest job losses in California and across the country during this economic downturn have been in housing-related industries. In July 2008, year-over-year job losses totaled 118,500 in the housing-oriented sector of the economy.

At the same time, other industries added 42,600 jobs.

This initiative will help transition some of the hardest-hit workers immediately into related in-demand occupations. Others will receive “bridge” training, capitalizing on their existing skills and preparing them for new job opportunities.

For example, laid-off residential construction workers may transfer their skills to jobs in commercial construction, including hospital, highway, bridge, and other infrastructure projects.

The first $4.5 million of initiative funding is already at work preparing laid-off residential construction workers for jobs in commercial construction and in highway, bridge, and other infrastructure projects funded by the Governor’s Strategic Growth Plan.

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