Applications Administration
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The Central Kentucky Career Center can administer applications and screen applicants for necessary qualifications based on criteria set by the company, ensuring that candidates that pass the screening are just one interview away from being a great asset as a new employee.
Computer Testing Facilities
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Widen the reach of a search for the right person with the Central Kentucky Career Center. Make the most of recruiting efforts by getting candidates who can document their knowledge and skills through assessments.
Assessments are...
- Objective, cost-effective, legal, and proven to work.
- A working document for the new hire and the manager. With the evaluation report in hand, the manager has a much clearer understanding of how to motivate, develop, and coach the new hire. A way of showing candidates that the company takes its mission seriously by using a systematic and thorough approach to the acquisition of human resources.
- Proven to significantly reduce turnover and the high costs associated with it.
- A successful method to determine that the best-fit applicants are hired, ensuring they settle into the new position more quickly and travel the learning curve faster.
The Central Kentucky Career Center has hundreds of assessments available or can install company specific software. Testing facilities overseen by Career Center staff will administer these assessments and check the results against criteria established in advance by the business, ensuring “quantified” and “qualified” individuals move forward.
Customized Training
Customized Training is another option to help Bluegrass businesses increase work skills. This program is easy to use and helps employees develop specific skills to make an organization soar.
The Central Kentucky Career Center will...
- Work with a company to develop a training plan tailored specifically to the business.
- Pay up to half the cost and get a skilled productive workforce trained precisely the way the business requires, making customized training programs a “win-win” for employers and employees.
Labor Market Information
The Central Kentucky Career Centers have a variety of ways to access the most up-to-date information on the national, statewide and local labor markets. A business can explore occupations, labor markets, geographic areas, industry projections and more.
On-the-Job Training
OJT is a simple program designed to fill vacant positions in a cost-effective way.
Here is how it works:
- A company places a job order with the Central Kentucky Career Center. The Career Center will locate an applicant who meets the criteria and is ready to work.
- The Career Center will then determine if the applicant is eligible for an OJT. If so, the Career Centers works with the company to develop a training plan.
- Once the training is complete the Career Center can reimburse a portion of the new employee’s salary to cover the company’s training costs.
- At the end of the training period, the company gets a skilled employee - trained the right way - and a portion of the salary reimbursed.
Post Job Openings
Through the Career Centers, a business can post job vacancies for free. These postings are made available to career seekers at all Career Centers and online at Kentucky’s E3 (https://e3.ky.gov/).
Central Kentucky Career Center staff assist with vacancy postings, conduct searches for qualified resumes, and recruit full-time, part-time, and even seasonal workers -- ranging from entry level to highly skilled professionals. Each vacancy posted with the Career Center is reviewed to ensure it meets strict EEO standards.
Should someone indicate an interest in a company’s job opening, that indivdiual is checked for the basic qualifications listed, then referred directly to the business. If that business prefers, the Career Centers can take the applicant through the applicant screening process.
Retention Services
Through the Career Centers, a business can post job vacancies for free. These postings are made available to career seekers at all Career Centers and online at Kentucky’s E3 (https://e3.ky.gov/).
Central Kentucky Career Center staff assist with vacancy postings, conduct searches for qualified resumes, and recruit full-time, part-time, and even seasonal workers -- ranging from entry level to highly skilled professionals. Each vacancy posted with the Career Center is reviewed to ensure it meets strict EEO standards.
Should someone indicate an interest in a company’s job opening, that indivdiual is checked for the basic qualifications listed, then referred directly to the business. If that business prefers, the Career Centers can take the applicant through the applicant screening process.
Social Media Marketing
The Career Centers assists with taking the next step in marketing vacancies through the use of social media networks. Through the use of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn the Career Centers targets computer savvy job seekers to a business.
These vacancies are marketed free of charge to individuals who follow the Career Center or popular catch words like #job, #bluegrass, #employment through these networks. The Career Center remains the buffer between you and the applicant, directing interested parties to Career Center locations in order to proceed with the screening and application process.
Tailored Recruitment
The Career Centers Tailored Recruitment service will save valuable staff time by doing the searches for a suitable candidate.
Staff will provide workshops designed for a company’s individual needs, screening to ensure the right workers with the right skills are selected for interviews, as well as offer office space for on-site interviewing and training.
Staff can perform assessments on potential applicants, host job fairs and specialized recruiting, assist with writing job descriptions, and offer virtual interviewing capability.
There are few limits to how the Central Kentucky Career Centers can assist the search for ideal candidates and there is absolutely no cost for these services.
Contact the local Career Center to begin the process.
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