Building Futures

Our company has been a leader in creating public and private partnerships that enable us to recruit talented colleagues who reflect the communities where our facilities are located. Our approach includes leveraging relationships to cultivate diverse talent, encouraging students to pursue a pharmacy career and attracting and retaining mature workers (aged 50 or older).

Workforce Initiatives

The CVS Caremark Workforce Initiatives team supports the hiring, training, development and retention of quality colleagues. In communities nationwide, these programs create career opportunities and help promote successful employment transitions.

Our Workforce Initiatives team works with hundreds of nonprofits, schools, faith-based organizations and government agencies to find people who want to work, but who face barriers such as a disability, lack of education or age. They then offer job skills training and work experience, as well as vocational and career advancement opportunities through a variety of programs.

Through our workforce initiatives, we partner with government agencies, nonprofits and educational institutions to support our hiring needs and provide underserved populations with job opportunities. These initiatives include:

• CVS Regional Learning Centers
• Welfare to Work
• Pathways to Pharmacy
• Job Corps Pharmacy Technician Training Programs
• Workforce Development Partnership Programs

CVS Regional Learning Centers

One-Stop Career Centers, established by the federal government in 1998, provide assistance for job seekers. In 2000, CVS/pharmacy joined forces with a One-Stop Career Center in Washington, D.C. by adding a CVS Regional Learning Center inside the center - creating the first government/corporate One-Stop partnership in the nation. Since then we have opened eight more Regional Learning Centers in major cities, and installed mock CVS stores in each one, where training is delivered to both new and current colleagues. In 2007, 8,000 colleagues received training at our One-Stop Career Centers.

Welfare to Work

We began our Welfare-to-Work training program in 1996, and have since hired more than 60,000 people who had been on public assistance. In 2007, 7,500 people were hired through this program. More than 60 percent of colleagues hired since the program's inception are still actively employed, and a majority of them have been promoted more than once.