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Workforce Solutions is dedicated to serving the individual needs of our local employers and coordinating services to meet employer hiring and training needs . It is highly recommended that you invite one of our business professionals to your facility to discuss your needs. Please read over our How Do I section below.
How do I contact Workforce Solutions business centers?
How do I submit a job order?
How do I know the new hire referrals are qualified and pre-screened?
How do I reserve Workforce Solutions Career Center office space for my interviewing?
How do I obtain employer training and hiring incentives information?
How do I obtain more information on unemployment issues and the employers responsibility regarding unemployment?
HOW DO I CONTACT WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS BUSINESS CENTERS?
Workforce Solutions has Business Centers to better serve our employers’ hiring and training needs. You are invited to visit your nearest Business/Career Center to meet our staff and see what services our facilities have to offer. Click here for contact information.
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HOW DO I SUBMIT A JOB ORDER?
There are quick and easy ways to submit your job order at no charge to you.
You may contact the Business Services Consultant located in your county for assistance to help you solve your immediate employment issues and your current job order. Click here for contact information.
You may submit your job order directly through Employ Florida: at https://www.employflorida.com/ or you may call toll free at 1-866-4U2-Hire (1-866-482-4473).
If you would like to submit a job order form online click here.
For a listing of the packages we provide please click here
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HOW DO I KNOW THE NEW HIRE REFERRALS ARE QUALIFIED AND PRE-SCREENED?
There are numerous ways we qualify and pre-screen the jobseekers for our employers.
Assessment
Workforce Solutions conducts thorough assessment reviews and testing of our job seekers interests and skills prior to referral to the employer. As a potential new hire you may be screened for the employer using “any or all” of the following assessments. (Click Here)
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Assessment Interviews
Workforce Solutions is qualified to conduct assessment interviews one-on-one with the jobseeker candidate and will include employer specific questions.
Specific Assessment Testing
Workforce Solutions will assess the new hire jobseeker candidate with skill testing against the individual employers’ job criteria and/or special company skills.
Prove-It Assessments
Some jobs may require a Prove-It Assessment. Prove-It skills testing and pre-employment assessments evaluate the jobseeker for competencies in various
occupational skills.
TABE Survey
Jobseekers may be given a TABE survey determined by a counselor. This is a Test of the Adult Basic Education Skills of the jobseeker to assess the reading comprehension, language, math computation and math application levels of the jobseeker prior to the referral to the employer or to training.
Choices
Choices is a career assessment profile analysis. This is an interactive decision-making profile assessment for career interest choices and skills assessment. Workforce Solutions is able to give this assessment to our jobseekers on site at our Career Centers most any time.
CareerScope
Jobseekers may be given a CareerScope Assessment determined by a counselor. This is an interest and aptitude skills assessment taken prior to a referral to an employer, or to training.
Job Preparation Workshops
All new hire jobseekers prior to referral to potential employers are eligible for our Jobseeker Preparation Workshops. Click here for our workshop calendar
Work Certified Training
Workforce Solutions conducts a Work Certified: Employee Work Readiness Certification training class. Employers immediately know the new employee will have the necessary credentials to be a valuable employee.
You may view more information about the Work Certified Solutions program on http://workcertifiedsolutions.com
The local Work Certified program offers work readiness training in the following areas:
Math
Fractions
Ratios
Graphs
Reading profit and loss statements
Reading comprehension
Writing skills
Customer service
Use of office equipment
Interpersonal skills
How do I hire a jobseeker that is Work Certified?
On your job order comments section add “Work Certified jobseekers are preferred”
Ask your new hire to show you their Work Certification Credential
Discuss the training the new hire received in the Work Certified training program
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HOW DO I RESERVE WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS CAREER CENTER OFFICE SPACE FOR MY INTERVIEWING?
Workforce Solutions has on-site office space available for employers to use for interviewing and/or meetings. If your company is hiring, you can reserve space to interview potential candidates right at our Career Centers, regardless of how many workers you need to hire.
Please forward your request to the Business Service Consultant located in your county to reserve your interview/meeting room. Click here for contact information.
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HOW DO I OBTAIN EMPLOYER TRAINING AND HIRING “INCENTIVES” INFORMATION?
Workforce Solutions can help your business apply for State and Federal programs that assist you in obtaining training dollars to raise employee skill levels. The training can vary depending on your businesses field, but some examples are Lean Manufacturing, ISO 9000, Microsoft Office, Inventory Control and many more.
Through these programs, we can cover part of your training costs and up to one half of the employee’s wages if you meet the following criteria:
- Effective occupational training helps your business retain new employees
- Grow your own talent
- Raise current employees to a better job and better wage within your company
- Raise current employees to a better job and better wage within your company
- Flexible and customized
- Responds to your business objectives
- Remain competitive
- Skills upgrade training for existing full-time employees
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The Quick Response Training Program (QRT) provides grants to businesses creating new high skills/high wages jobs that require customized entry-level training.
Since the QRT program was enacted in July of 1993, it has played a key role in the location or expansion decision of more than 300 value-added, competitive economic development projects. These projects have directly created over 85,000 new high skills/high wages jobs. Florida residents hired to fill these new jobs have received customized training that will increase their employability now and in the future. Because of the popularity of the program, demand has exceeded the annual appropriated amounts by a ratio of 3 to 1. Click here for more information, including a copy of the QRT application.
Florida's Incumbent Worker Training Program provides employers with funds to train currently employed workers in an effort to keep their firms and workers competitive, particularly small businesses and those located in rural areas or distressed inner cities. Incumbent Worker Training (IWT) addresses retraining needed to meet changing skill requirements caused by new technology, retooling, new product lines and new organizational structuring.
Created in 1999, the program receives an annual appropriation of $2 million. Click here for more information, including a copy of the IWT application. Click here to read the most recent IWT annual report.
High Skill/High Wage Training Grant is offered once a year by Workforce Florida. The Workforce Development Board of the Treasure Coast must apply for this grant in behalf of our local employers. This grant is directed mostly towards manufacturers. Request for this grant should be made prior to July 1st of each year. Employers are required to pay half of the desired training cost.
Employed Worker Training Program is administered by Workforce Solutions. Employers must pay half of the desired training cost. For more information please contact you local Career Center or call 1-866-4U2-HIRE.
On-the-Job-Training (OJT) Employers can recoup up to half of wages paid to workers pre-approved by one-stop career centers through on-the-job training for employment usually not available elsewhere. Employers hire workers they have trained to their own specifications and employees are very likely to remain after training is complete. OJT is particularly encouraged in higher-skill occupations, and can be done in conjunction with classroom training at educational institutions. Reimbursements are limited to six months and may not exceed the time required to acquire the skill needed for the position.
Work Opportunity Tax Credit This incentive, available to employers hiring welfare recipients and individuals from other groups including food stamp recipients as well as some veterans, vocational rehabilitation clients and people receiving Supplemental Security Income, can earn up to $2,400 per employee in federal income taxes. Employers receive up to 40 percent of qualified wages for a maximum credit of $2,400 per employee for employees working more than 400 hours. For individuals who work between 120 and 400 hours, employers are eligible for tax credits of up to 25 percent. Employers should complete a pre-screening notice before hiring a qualified applicant and must complete ETA form 9061 if the employee has been conditionally certified by the state. Additionally, a one-page form (such as payroll stubs or other proof of employment) must be filed to document the employee's eligibility. All forms must be filed within 21 days of employee's start date. For additional information and fax-on-demand forms, click here for more information.
Enterprise Zone Incentives Business located in an Enterprise Zone may be eligible for various tax credits if they hire new employees from groups including welfare recipients and graduates of Workforce Investment Act classroom training programs. Businesses can claim a percentage of the employee's wages against either their corporate income tax or to offset property or sales tax on building materials and business equipment. For additional information, click here or the national program at www.ezec.gov.
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OBTAIN MORE INFORMATION ON UNEMPLOYMENT ISSUES AND THE EMPLOYERS’ RESPONSIBILITY REGARDING UNEMPLOYMENT?
The Unemployment Compensation Program is unemployment insurance that provides a temporary wage replacement benefit to qualified individuals who are out of work through no fault of their own.
For information on assisting your laid off employees to file for unemployment click the following links:
www.fluidnow.com
www.workforcesecurity.doleta.gov
www.floridajobs.org/Unemployment
Or you may call 1-800-204-2418.
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