Pros
Interesting; workforce development can be difficult to understand unless you come from a social services or federally funded nonprofit background. You are constantly learning about programs and services offered to the public at no cost. Benefits are pretty awesome.
Kontras
Office politics and way too much drama. Favoritism and back stabbing will pretty much determine the course of your career with WSA. There is no real career advancement unless you choose to take on a completely different role. Stay away if you can’t play the game or refuse to do so. Depending on your role, you might also involved with local politics, which can be good or bad, depending on whether or not you enjoy that sort of thing. Layoffs happen a lot, which is weird because these are the folks who are supposed to get people back to work while promoting long term employment and financial self sufficiency. Word on the street is that you will receive little to no notice of your pending layoff and don’t expect any severance pay on the way out either. Benefits are not so awesome if you have a family to feed :( There is a huge lack of trust between the contractors and WSA, which also makes things interesting. Huge lack of communication and miscommunication issues with the contractors causes a lot of unnecessary problems and hostility. CEO is sketchy and plays favorites, so stay on his good side or else you’re screwed. Leadership changes constantly, so it feels like you’re constantly on a roller coaster ride. The board of directors isn’t very involved with the mission of WSA. Lastly, change is very slow to be implemented because it’s a bureaucratic agency. Just expect everything to be slow, whether it involves internal processes or simply trying to get reimbursed for mileage.