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This program offers the ultimate flexibility for lay-offs. The program can be accessed from computers in the homes, at the company, at a workforce center or in a mobile lab. The program is available in English and Spanish.
Program features include:
- Assessments on education levels, career interest, career outlook, learning styles, skill self-assessments and more.
- Labor market information including occupational outlook, what it takes to enter a career, wage expectations and many more tools from U.S. DOL’s Career Info Net.
- Online support for coping with job loss, managing personal finances in times of crisis, and preparing for new careers is available through weekly support groups, articles and activities, peer support, online courseware and links.
- Job search preparation including resume builder, interview techniques information, “ask the expert,” virtual job clubs, virtual career coaching and more.
- Training curricula from a library of over 500 courses. Curricula can be pre-assigned, created by employers or other industry experts or left to the choice of the individual.
- Rapid Response programs can offer a customized web page for recruiting laid off workers. Companies in the same or related industries can be directed to the website to locate potential employees.
- Hire Access, the entrance to the system for employers, can be utilized generically for lay-offs that are not large enough to warrant a customized website.
- Hundreds of links to job search resources including local papers and national recruiting resources.
- Government benefit locator that provides contact information for state and federal programs that the participant may be eligible for based on their responses to an extensive survey.
Texas
Texas state agencies, non-profit entities, cities, counties, school districts and universities can purchase this program through purchase order utilizing the Department of Information Resources contract #DIR-SDD-532. According to Texas Government Code, Section 791.025, DIR has met the competitive bid requirements, eliminating the need to customers to customers to follow this process. Purchase made under these contracts also qualify under E-Rate.
Contract: http://www.dir.state.tx.us/store/busops/go-direct/forms/businessaccess.pdf
FAQ: http://www.dir.state.tx.us/store/faq/custfaq.htm
New Jersey
Business Access is an eligible training provider and certified proprietary school in New Jersey.
The cost of the program depends on whether Business Access will be providing computers and Internet access in the homes of participants and if Business Access will be customizing the Employer entrance and other services for a specific company.
Contact Kim Bunting for more information:
214.556.5374 or kbunting@business-access.com. |
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