My first suggestion is to share with the forum your son’s trade and training, as every craft, trade, skill, or profession will have its distinctive obstacles and opportunities.  There may be those here who have a background in your son’s field and could offer very relevant advice.
 
Some generic suggestions might be:
1.      If the trade he is trained in has a union that represents it he might look into their apprenticeship program.  As he already has certification he will have a head start on the other apprentices and will come out of the program with verifiable experience.  In SE WA where I live the apprentice programs pay way above minimum wage, which in WA is $16.28 per hour.
2.      I don’t know if he went to a public Vo-tech school (such as at a community college) or a for profit private one.  The public training programs typically will have guidance counselors / career coaches and a “jobs board”, he should look into these programs.  Employers often look to trade schools for workers and may have an apprenticeship program where one can get experience.
3.      In an internet search engine type “Worksource” and the name of your state.  Most, if not all, states have employment offices which increasingly are operating under a common “Worksource” banner.  These have extensive and searchable “Help Wanted” and “Looking for Work” boards, and one can post their resume for potential employers to review.  They often offer many other services, such as helping someone write a cover letter and resume that gets noticed and gets results, doing mock interviews, and providing other practical tips.
 
I will include your son on my prayer list.  I must also say that I was absolutely SHOCKED at replies #1 and #2 to your post (may have been from the same person, I can almost guess who it is).  Someone who can’t compose a grammatically correct English sentence and then makes insulting and random assumptions about someone they know nothing about is not one to take advice from.
 
Again, I pray that things will come together for your son.

Thank you.  Good advice.  I was shocked by response #1 and #2 as well.

Why on earth do you think a janitor or maintenance man job is beneath him?  These are important jobs that need to be done and working these jobs give men experience in doing work. 

Beneath his skill level. As I stated he is a certified electrician and hvac technician.  He also was an irrigation technician for almost 2 years. Obviously he is capable of more than just cleaning toilets and mopping floors despite how important those jobs are to society. Please don't read into something that I never wrote. We just moved a few months ago and he's having a really hard time breaking into this job market. Where we lived previously we had contacts and we don't know anybody here.

I teach at an IBEW Union electrical trade school as a second job. I will say that “Freemasons” is a really poor excuse for not joining a union. Unfortunately, Masons are everywhere and in almost every institution. You won’t live in a cave in South America (they are numerous there as well) and get away from them. Most are unsuspecting people who have no idea about the history of their club. 

If you dig deep into the trades, you will find that many Unions are anti-Communist openly in their declarations. The IBEW, for example, is anti-communist, patriotic and pro-God openly in their constitution. That doesn’t mean they are without problems. They have many problems. But so will any job or career your son lands. They are also vulgar at times (all trades). I would say toughen up and stay fervent in prayer. 

I personally use parts of orientation volumes of class lessons to promote Catholic principles. There are many encyclicals which have helped me in this. The very best is the one with the foreward by Bishop Williamson sold by Angelus press “Quadragessimo anno”. 

The benefit of a Union apprenticeship is that you gain the knowledge and experience as you study. Then when you finish, anyone will beg you to work for them. It opens so many doors. Try an elevator union. In my area they make 70 dollars an hour. 

New York even has a St. Joseph the Worker Union coalition. 

I teach at an IBEW Union electrical trade school as a second job. I will say that “Freemasons” is a really poor excuse for not joining a union. Unfortunately, Masons are everywhere and in almost every institution. You won’t live in a cave in South America (they are numerous there as well) and get away from them. Most are unsuspecting people who have no idea about the history of their club.

If you dig deep into the trades, you will find that many Unions are anti-Communist openly in their declarations. The IBEW, for example, is anti-communist, patriotic and pro-God openly in their constitution. That doesn’t mean they are without problems. They have many problems. But so will any job or career your son lands. They are also vulgar at times (all trades). I would say toughen up and stay fervent in prayer.

I personally use parts of orientation volumes of class lessons to promote Catholic principles. There are many encyclicals which have helped me in this. The very best is the one with the foreward by Bishop Williamson sold by Angelus press “Quadragessimo anno”.

The benefit of a Union apprenticeship is that you gain the knowledge and experience as you study. Then when you finish, anyone will beg you to work for them. It opens so many doors. Try an elevator union. In my area they make 70 dollars an hour.

New York even has a St. Joseph the Worker Union coalition.

Thanks for this.  I have been unsuccessful in my attempts to encourage him to join the union. He firmly believes they are all Freemasons.

I do appreciate the helpful comments on this thread. It certainly is lifting my spirits. I want to be able to maintain a positive and cheerful disposition to encourage him to keep trying.

Freemasons

Your taxes, and a lot of where your other money directly/indirectly goes to these  "freemasons" or straight to the Zionist/Jew effort. We don't have a say in this. But I understand his concerns about unions. 

Freemasons

Nonsense.  He's not joining a lodge, but a labor union.  Only bad thing about unions is that they'll donate to Leftist political causes, but that would entail a material cooperation, which he can do in order to make a living.  He can stay there until he gets the experience and then leave if he wants to.

He can go into business himself for local electric needs. 

In defense of the two individuals who posted "mean" posts, I was thinking some of those same thoughts myself AS I READ THE THREAD, IN ORDER.

VERY LITTLE INFORMATION WAS POSTED ORIGINALLY. We don't know this guy or his son. It could easily be one of those situations where the parents have all the ambition/maturity and the children (even over 30) are rather immature. That is a thing now. How are we supposed to automatically know that isn't the case?

Since this was posted anonymously, we don't even know who the mature one (parent) is in this situation. We knew almost nothing about the situation.

And no, you're not going to get "doxxed" by posting your specific trade. Give me a break! That was a bit paranoid, you gotta admit.

Allow me to demonstrate the absurdity:

"Did you say plumber? This is John, isn't it! John Snow from Kansas City, MO! You just screwed up, buddy. You'll be out of the SSPX chapel by next week, Mr. Unemployed Bum's father. We completely hate you now for some reason (being unemployed?) and we'll make sure you never work in this town again. C-ya!"

But seriously though, thank you for filling in many of the details.