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0-5 years of experience
- Worked in collaboration with the Lake County Workforce Development to provide seamless services to persons.
- Reached out to multiple employers in the community to learn about their business and career opportunities.
- Provided workshops for employers and employees on customized employment, financial literacy and relieving stress in the work area.
- Developed jobs though analyzing and understanding the skills, knowledge and ability of my customers and employer needs.
- Assisted customers with mobility training by using public transportation.
- Prepared monthly reporting on services provided to customers and number of customers that were serviced that month.
- Networked with other social service agencies to learn about their services and resources and create partnerships.
0-5 years of experience
- Provide vocational education and guidance to assist individuals in understanding and overcoming barriers to employment.
- Collect, organize, and analyze information about individuals through records, tests, interviews, and professional sources to appraise their interests, aptitudes, abilities, and personality characteristics for vocational and educational planning.
- Facilitates group/individual orientation sessions and explains requirements for participation in agency sponsored programs
- Participate as part of a team to determine the clients suitability for participation in programs and determines eligibility and priority for service ensuring compliance with regulations and agency policies and procedures.
- Deliver workforce development services to participants in accordance with the agency’s policies and procedures including the case management system, job search techniques, and other training activities
0-5 years of experience
- Maintain case files and regularly contact clients to assess their needs on a case by case basis, hold the largest caseload in the program with no findings on any state/federal audits
- Monitor client progress to identify their employment barriers, assist with employment and educational needs including steady contact with educational institutions to learn of the available programs
- Follow Workforce Investment Act (WIA/WIOA) standards on the federal and state levels
- Communicate with local employers to assess their hiring needs and put them in contact with resources and caseload candidates who fit the need
- Facilitate employment/self-sufficiency classes to groups that are in need or at risk including veterans, dislocated workers,disabled workers, and offenders reentering the workforce
- Oversee and monitor files of staff programwide to ensure proper protocol is followed to keep in compliance with state/federal program policies
6-10 years of experience
- Instructs the Reemployment Assessment Orientation grant program assessing the abilities of jobseekers to match with the employers needs
- Case manages 60 jobseekers a month utilizing Individual Employment Plans (IEPs)
- Relentless assistance and support of customers employment goals results
- Processes benefits, assists with filing unemployment claims, federal claims, and interstate claims, verifies eligibility for benefits, assists with appeal process, and creates issues on claims when requirements are not met
- Provides job seeker services such as: writing resumes, conducting interview classes, administering referrals, and soft transfers to sister agencies
- Transfers and instills knowledge of labor market information (LMI), state policies and procedures regarding job searches and eligibility to customers
- Networks with employers to match jobseekers which greatly enhances employers organizational needs
- Serves on Jobseekers services team to find new and innovative strategies to assist with customers employment needs
6-10 years of experience
- Responds to routine questions from job seekers and employers concerns and inquiries relating to work, family issues, labor market trends and unemployment insurance benefits.
- Updates work applications, reviews occupational codes, records complete work history, education and other skills.
- Refers and places qualified claimants to job postings and provides other job search assistance.
0-5 years of experience
- Call on employers and assist them in creating Focus Talent accounts and posting and filling job orders.
- Inform employers of all programs available to assist in hiring needs to include On the Job Training (OJT), Work Experience, Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC), etc.
- Job development for job seekers.
- Participate in both onsite and offsite job fairs and hiring events.
- Follow up with employers to see if hiring needs were met.
- Assist job seekers in making career decisions regarding occupational skills training, employment, on the job training, and internships.
- Develop and teach workshops. (Resume Writing, Interviewing, Employability Skills)
- Attend Rapid Responses to assist employer in the lay-off process and to inform affected employees of employment opportunities in the area.
- Work with community partners to seek job applicants.
- Maintain a positive, high energy attitude.