Hiring Employees

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General

New! Finders, Keepers: Business Taking Action to Secure Skilled Workers A series of best practices that share the successes of five chambers of commerce (four local and one state) that were supported by ICW's Workforce Innovation Networks (WINs) initiative to develop innovative pilot programs in workforce development. Order your copy online

The Online Navigator: Federal and State Online Resources to Help You Grow Your Business
(Winter 2005) Online Toolkit
Employers across the nation and within all industries share a common understanding – a qualified and well-trained workforce is one of the most critical factors to sustained growth and competitiveness. Whether you need help in hiring new employees or training and educating your existing staff, the Online Navigator can help you connect to available low or no cost resources.

Completing the Workforce Puzzle: How Chambers Can Help Businesses Find, Keep and Advance Employees (Spring 2002) (PDF) ORDER Hard Copy
This guide provides practical tools and resources for chambers that want to help their members increase their competitiveness, including specific suggestions on what to do now-and later-to help members find, keep and advance qualified employees.  It also highlights chambers' roles as brokers, catalysts, and partners in making local workforce development systems responsive to business needs.

Surviving in a Dynamic Economy -- How Chambers Can Help Navigate the Workforce Development System  (Spring 2004) (PDF 936KB) ORDER Hard Copy
This publication provides information on how chambers are helping employers meet labor force needs in three geographically diverse communities that are facing challenges caused by shrinking manufacturing bases, expanding services and health care industries and demographic shifts in workforce.

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Individuals with Disabilities

Disability Employment 101 (Spring 2004) (PDF) (available online only)
A planning guide to connect chambers and their business members to existing community resources in order to meet the demand for a pipeline of skilled, qualified workers for the 21st century workforce.

Disability: Dispelling the Myths -- How People with Disabilities Can Meet Employer Needs (PDF 940KB) (Spring 2004) ORDER Hard Copy 
This publication provides information on successful strategies used by employers to meet their labor force needs and includes practical examples and commonsense approaches for hiring and retaining people with disabilities.  

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Veterans

Bottom Line . . . Hire Veterans (Fall 2003) (PDF) (available online only)
A one-page fact sheet that was developed to address a serious gap identified by employers and military alike regarding the bottom-line good business sense it makes to hire veterans. Twelve key factors are listed giving solid reasons why businesses should look at these highly skilled individuals when making hiring decisions.

Operation Transition Year One Report (Fall 2003) (PDF) (available online only)
This report describes the significant progress that ICW has made in San Diego to connect military personnel and their families with the public workforce development resources and local employers. Community resources have been identified to improve employment and training outcomes for transitioning military and their spouses.

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Welfare to Work

 

Welfare to Work: An Economic Boost -- The Journey to Finding and Retaining Good Workers  (PDF 1360KB) (Spring 2004) ORDER Hard Copy
This publication showcases the innovative approaches chambers of commerce, businesses and communities have taken to help former welfare recipients become competitive workers.

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Youth

Connecting Employers to Skilled Entry-Level Youth Webinar Series
Quarterly webinar that feature the "how tos" of using ICW's chamber-Job Corps partnership model and tools to create new partnerships, and cover more advanced strategies for broadening existing partnerships.  (available online only)

Webinar 1 Getting Started: The Business Case for Partnerships (June 2005)

 

C³ Job Fair (Summer 2002 PDF)
This brochure assists chambers in creating a more effective career fair that brings together the three C's – community workforce system, chambers and colleges – to inform employers about the resources available to them to strengthen their workforce pipeline to Job Corps graduates.

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Ready, Fresh & Made to Order (February 2002 PDF) 
Read this brochure to learn how chambers can help determine the type of training and skills required to meet the demands of local business through Job Corps. (available online only

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