Governmental Employers
There are several options to take advantage of the funds Workforce Alliance is getting in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

•  Use the Workforce Alliance Centers to meet your hiring needs. List your jobs at www.employflorida.com. It is a free recruitment tool which cuts costs. We can even do some pre-screening for you. You can also set up an electronic resume scout to automatically find resumes which have key skills and it will notify you automatically.
• Workforce Alliance also has hiring incentives, information on tax incentives and even matching dollars to train your existing employees if they need that training to retain their jobs. Everyone wins in these scenarios and it cuts your costs.
• Lastly but possibly the most important for the community, when you start your stimulus package projects which will create jobs, require in your agreements with the contractors that they and their subcontractors list their jobs at http://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 Alliance 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 employflorida.com and a step beyond would be to institute first source hiring agreements.

Let’s put Palm Beach County back to work!