Business feature: CIDC launches Clovis Remote

CLOVIS — The Clovis Industrial Development Corporation on Friday launched Clovis Remote, a program to help connect people in the community with remote job opportunities.

“There are a lot of people who say they want to work remotely but they are not prepared,” said Andrea Corpening, owner of Elite Business Performance, LLC, a contractor working for CIDC.

“Clovis Remote participants will receive training on how to start a remote working career, as well as a variety of support including resume and interview preparation, virtual job placement assistance and coworking opportunities,” as stated in a press release by the Clovis/Curry County Chamber of Commerce, one of CIDC’s partners. The program is free to anyone living within 25 miles of Clovis, including military spouses at Cannon Air Force Base (AFB) and local veterans.

Miesje Scott-Evans, a career advisor for Elite Business Performance, said the opportunities for remote jobs “are endless.”

“Not a lot of people may know how to access these remote job opportunities,” Scott-Evans said.

She said she went through Clovis Remote’s training program when it was first launched in May because it was a challenge finding work in her background of customer service and hospitality in Clovis. A military spouse, she lives in Clovis.

After the training program, she was offered a remote job with Elite Business, which was just good timing, she said.

She likes the flexibility of remote work because she can continue to work on her master’s degree in social work and hold down a job, she said. If her husband’s job requires them to relocate, she can keep her job.

And, she added, she is able to work while she travels.

Corpening said to take the training, applicants must first apply at clovis.nm.org/remote to find out if they are “a good fit” for the program. The next training will start Sept. 13. All who complete the program get a certificate they can put on their resumes and the program assists in locating them a job.

The release said the economic development aspect of the program is that even though the job is elsewhere, the employee’s pay comes into the community as they will pay for the same necessities any other resident does.

The project is a partnership with Plateau Telecommunications, the chamber and the CIDC.