K Alliance, one of the area?s leading technology training and certification providers, recently launched a free educational program designed to boost Bay area residents? confidence when looking for future employment. The effort represents a retraining incentive geared towards a reorganization of personal career talents. The initiative is open to those who are currently unemployed and seeking technology skills advancement. The K Alliance Cares program offers 14 training courses in various applications including Adobe, Quickbooks and Microsoft Office. The free program is limited to 200 applicants and will operate through January 15, 2010.

As the Tampa Bay area continues to recover from the economic downturn, hiring managers and departments will seek to fill available positions with qualified individuals. The K Alliance Cares Program will assist personnel who are interested in cross training with materials designed to enhance their personal skills. In turn, these new and improved abilities may be utilized in order to apply for positions in the IT field as they become available. Hugh Nguyen, President and CEO of K Alliance, offered his vision in connection with the creation of the K Alliance Cares Program and why it was an essential sponsorship for the community: ?As the Tampa Bay area reclaims its position in the workforce and escapes these difficult economic times, I wanted K Alliance to take an active role as a conduit.

This initiative serves individuals that are poised for change and ready to prepare themselves with the skills to achieve prosperity through the procurement of the highly skilled occupations in need of personnel.?

The training syllabus of the K Alliance Cares Program includes the following titles in the category of Adobe, Quickbooks, Microsoft Office
2003 and Microsoft Office 2007 courses:
? Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator
? Quickbooks 2008 and Quickbooks 2009
? Microsoft Access, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint and Word, versions 2003
? Microsoft Access, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint and Word, versions 2007

Each of the fourteen individual training courses, supplied in DVD format, will be offered as basic, intermediate and advanced level modules.
Interested and eligible participants have the option to receive each training level or all three classifications. Individuals who qualify for the K Alliance Cares Program may receive one (1) copy of a single training package title.

In order to receive one of the free computer training CDs detailed in the K Alliance Cares Program, an applicant must present documentation of unemployment, apply for a training course DVD before the end of business on January 15, 2009, and personally appear to accept their choice of training course DVD at the Lois Avenue offices of K Alliance in Tampa, FL.
The K Alliance Cares Program will be limited to the first two hundred
(200) eligible candidates.

About K Alliance:
K Alliance provides IT, IT certification, desktop and soft skills training along with many other forms of custom e-learning courseware. As a blended learning provider of the superior quality you expect to receive in your educational requirements, K Alliance sets the standard with the latest technological trends in delivery and content development. In providing their enterprise learning library for corporations, government and educational institutions, K Alliance delivers academic and business accounts with flexibility, consistent high quality and a demonstrated level of expertise in the field of educational IT materials. Turn to K Alliance for your customized IT curriculum. For more information, please visit www.kalliance.com .