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Government Employers:

There are four ways to take advantage of the workforce stimulus funds.

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Ongoing ways we can be a valuable partner to you…

Use Workforce Solutions to meet your hiring needs. List your jobs at, www.employflorida.com. It is a free no-cost recruiting tool. We can even pre-screen job candidates for you. You can set up an electronic resume scout to automatically find resumes having key skills and it will notify you when there is a match.

We also have hiring incentives, information on tax incentives, and even matching dollars to train your existing employees if they need training to retain their jobs. Everyone wins in these scenarios and the services cut your costs.

Lastly but possibly the most important for the community, when you start your stimulus projects , require in your agreements with the contractors that they and their subcontractors list their jobs at www.employflorida.com.

Another step you can take to help our community would be to implement “first source” hiring requirements. This means that the employer must check with Workforce Solutions to see if we have an unemployed person registered in our system who might be able to fill a job opening created under the contract. If the state could shave one week of unemployment benefits off the average duration of benefits, it would save the state $120 million. So at the minimum, have your contractors list their jobs at www.employflorida.com. A step beyond would be to institute first source hiring agreements. Let’s put the Treasure Coast back to work!