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Industry and education combine forces to ensure a skilled and relevant workforce.
As Close As Your Computer EmployFlorida.com serves more than 40,000 online visitors every day. Ready access to Florida’s complete range of state and local workforce services is easier than ever before thanks to the new and improved Employ Florida Marketplace website. Whether you’re seeking a job, screening resumes for potential job candidates or looking for local labor market figures and links to the nearest regional workforce board, you’ll find what you need at the click of a mouse. In addition to the more than 13,000 Florida job openings directly placed on the site by employers or one-stop centers, another 275,000 Florida listings are regularly picked up from corporate, public and private websites and displayed using powerful “spider” technology. And new quick search features make it easy for job seekers to zero in on specific geographic areas and for employers to sort resumes and rank applicants by job skills and actual experience. There’s even an integrated tool for help with creating resumes, and detailed labor force and salary statistics for quick county-by-county comparisons. The Employ Florida Marketplace is easy-to-use, open 24/7 and, best of all, available at no charge to employers and job seekers. |
TRAINING PROGRAMS
Workforce Florida offers two employer-specific, customized training programs for convenience and cost-effectiveness. Find one that is tailor-made to suit you:
Quick Response Training (QRT)
QRT is a flexible and customized program designed to help meet the specific training needs of both new and expanding businesses. A local training provider — community college, technical center or university — assists with application and program development or delivery. Or, in cases where a training program is already in place, the local provider will supervise and manage the existing program and serve as fiscal agent for the grant funds.
Incumbent Worker Training (IWT)
IWT is a customer-driven program designed to retain existing businesses and keep Florida’s workforce competitive in a global economy. IWT is available to all Florida businesses (for-profit) that have been in operation for at least one year prior to application and require skills upgrade training for their existing full-time employees.
In addition, most of the state’s 24 regional workforce boards award grants to businesses in their communities to improve the skills of their employees through Employer Worker Training (EWT) programs.
Since 2000, QRT, IWT and EWT programs have awarded a combined $85 million to train more than 158,000 workers throughout the state of Florida. |
Business Beat - Week of May 3rd
