Employer Solutions
How we'll impact your business:
OhioMeansJobs Wayne County is concerned about your business, your employees, your bottom line, and your success. Whether you are seeking to fill one position or 250, hire entry-level positions or executive staff, our goal is to help you find the right employees easily and quickly. Our employer solutions can you help you to achieve these goals.
We develop a personalized recruitment strategy and training supports to help you reduce both time and money spent during the hiring process. OhioMeansJobs Wayne County Employer Services are available through the investment of your tax dollars.
On-the-Job Training
On-the-Job Training (OJT) is a federally funded program that helps employers hire and train workers for full-time, long term employment. Through OJT, employers may be reimbursed up to $13,000.00. This funding compensates you for training new workers in skills they need to help your business thrive.
The goal with OJT is to place participants into in-demand occupations that will enhance their marketability for long-term employment with you, while meeting your needs as the employer. OJT involves the acquisition of specific skills, through exposure in an actual work setting, to the processes, work tasks, tools, and methods of a specific job or group of jobs.
Employer Benefits with OJT
- Employer makes all hiring decisions
- Hands-on training done your way to meet your needs
- An investment in your company; up to $13,000.00 per eligible trainee
- Minimal paperwork with a fast turn-around
- Monthly reimbursement up to 50% of trainee's hourly wage (should be no less than $15.00/hour)
Step 1: Register Your Business
You must register your business as a potential OJT employer. Complete the OJT Employer Application and contact one of our Employer Service Representatives.
Step 2: Recruit Your Employee
Employers can self-recruit or utilize our free recruiting services. After selection of your candidate, complete the OJT Training Plan with the candidate's contact information and expected start date. We will schedule an appointment with your candidate prior to the expected start date, so that we can notify you if the new employee is eligible for OJT.
Step 3: Enroll Your Approved Employee
After you are notified that your employee is eligible, we will collect your signature on the OJT Contract. The OJT Contract specifies the personalized training period and reimbursement amount. To prepare for submitting first training invoice, please complete W9.
Step 4: Begin Training & Get Paid
Begin training your new hire "on-the-job" and submit your monthly invoices by the 15th of each month for reimbursement of the allotted training funds!
Things to keep in mind
- Employers must offer the same treatment and compensation for workers in OJT as workers in the same or similar positions
- Employers must not have laid off workers from the same/similar positions, and may not use OJT to displace current workers or reduce their hours, wages or benefits
Incumbent Worker Training
Incumbent Worker training provides both workers and employers with the opportunity to build and maintain a quality workforce. Workers participating in IWT will benefit by enhancing existing skills, learning new skills, and earning employer or industry recognized credentials, in addition to retaining employment, maintaining their careers, and/or increasing their earnings potential. To avert the risk of closing, IWT may be developed with a business or business association to maintain their competitive status, incorporate new technology, or prevent downsizing.
IWT is restricted to skill attainment activities. The training should benefit workers by making them more qualified in their line of business and/or by providing them with skills for new products or processes. It is desired that the training results in credentials or industry recognizable skills that promote the worker's career and increases the overall employability.
- Business develops a highly skilled workforce, which will result in increased business financial viability, stability, competitiveness, and productivity.
- IWT will also allow the opportunity for backfilling vacated positions resulting from the promotion of newly trained workers.
- An investment in your company through Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) funding
- Minimal paperwork with a fast turn-around
How to Get Started
Step 1: Register Your Business
You must register your business as a potential IWT employer. Complete the IWT Pre-Award and Application and contact one of our Employer Service Representatives.
Step 2: Identify Your Employees
After selection of your employees complete the IWT Product Budget and Training Log. The IWT Project Budget and Training Log should identify the number of employees participating in IWT, the training provided, and the proposed outcome (skill attainment and/or wage increase). Please contact Work Programs Administrator Robert Young for additional information.
Step 3: Enroll Your Approved Employee
After you are notified that your IWT Project is eligible, we will collect your signature on the IWT Assurance and Certifications (Contract). The IWT Contract specifies the personalized training period and reimbursement amount. To prepare for submitting first training invoice, please complete W9.
Step 4: Begin Training & Get Paid
Begin training your "incumbent workers" and submit your monthly invoices by the 15th of each month for reimbursement of the allotted training funds!
Things to keep in mind
- Employers must offer the same treatment and compensation for workers in IWT as workers in the same or similar positions
- Employers must not have laid off workers from the same/similar positions, and may not use IWT to displace current workers or reduce their hours, wages or benefits
On-Site Consultation
Our Employer Service's will come to your location, assess your needs, and develop a personalized plan to assist your business with sourcing new talent, as well as, further developing the skills of your current workforce (incumbent worker training).
Job Posting Services
Post your openings on OhioMeansJobs.com where thousands of job-seekers will view your openings. The job posting process is very simple, please call (330)264-5060 to get started. Our OhioMeansJobs Wayne County Business Representative will post your job opening on OhioMeansJobs.com, feature your job opening on OhioMeansJobs.com/Wayne, and add to the weekly job leads list for additional outreach distribution.
Pre-Screening Services
Your time is valuable. Through our partners at OhioMeansJobs Wayne County we will follow up on your job posting, work with you on additional recruiting efforts, and pre-screen candidates so you receive qualified candidates.
Private Interview Rooms
To reduce walk-in traffic at your business location, use our interview rooms for off-site screening and interviewing. Need computer access during your screening? Our OhioMeansJobs Wayne County Business Representative will reserve our computer lab for your needs.
Re-employment Services (Rapid Response)
Rapid Response is a pro-active, flexible, business-focused strategy designed primarily to respond to layoffs and plant closures by quickly coordinating and providing immediate aid and services to businesses and their impacted employees.
We offer employers and impacted employees:
• Coordinated unemployment information
• Priority access to Workforce Innovation and Opportunities Act (WIOA) funded training and On-the-Job Training.
• On-site workshops
• Connections to local employers who are hiring candidates with the impacted employees' skill sets
Our Re-employment Team will assess your impacted worker's needs and provide the appropriate services, either at your place of business or another convenient location. We will provide impacted workers with individual career counseling, skills assessments, basic skills training, occupational skills training, job search and job placement assistance.
We rate highly on satisfaction surveys completed by both employers and impacted employees.
Unemployment Compensation
Unemployment Compensation provides temporary financial assistance that can help impacted employees pay their bills. Unemployment Compensation is provided through Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. To find out additional information on Unemployment Compensation please visit the website at http://jfs.ohio.gov or call 1-877-852-0010.
Trade Act
The Trade Act assist individuals who have become unemployed as a result of increased imports from, or shifts in production to, foreign countries. The goal of the Trade Act is to help trade-affected workers return to suitable employment as quickly as possible. To facilitate this goal, Trade Act certified workers may access a menu of services that include income support, relocation allowances, job search allowances, and a health coverage tax credit. Trade Act participants that require retraining in order to obtain suitable employment may receive occupational training.
OhioMeansJobs.com
OhioMeansJobs.com is Ohio's online career, employment and educational center. It gives individuals, employers and students free, 24/7 access to many of the same services available at local OhioMeansJobs centers. For employers, the site lists millions of resumes with advanced filtering tools that make it easy to narrow down the search to the most promising candidates.
OhioMeansJobs.com's analytical tools produce monthly snapshots of the number of online job ads in Ohio, organized by the top employers, industries and occupations. These tools help identify the top job fields, statistical data and key metrics that give individuals and employers relevant information to improve their job searching and hiring processes.
Workforce Innovation Network
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Work Opportunity Tax Credit
The Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) is a federal tax credit available to employers. It is designed to encourage employers to hire individuals from certain target groups. The employer must file an application within 28 days of when the employee starts to work.
For More Information: Email: wotc_contact@jfs.ohio.gov; Phone: 1-888-296-7541, option 9
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Ohio ranks third in the nation for the number of Registered Apprenticeship programs and fourth nationally for the number of program sponsors. Registered Apprenticeship programs follow an industry-driven training model designed to help employers attract qualified applicants and increase productivity. This model allows businesses to improve the skills of existing employees and quickly boost the productivity of new hires based on national industry standards. For those who want to earn while they learn and acquire qualifications, an apprenticeship program should be considered. Apprenticeships, available in many industries, combine work with structured training and result in nationally recognized skills and experience.
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