Jeffco Workforce Center Gets the Job Done
Published Dec 22, 2009
The Jefferson County Workforce Center helps businesses with issues ranging from hiring to training to retention.
The Jefferson County Workforce Center is a one-stop shop for people seeking jobs and employers with jobs to fill or people to train.
Part of a statewide network, the center connects job seekers with companies looking for talent in Jefferson, Gilpin and Clear Creek counties.
The main center in Golden offers job seekers Internet access, fax and copy machines, and free workshops on everything from resume writing to social networking.
The business services team helps companies with hiring, training, retention and expansion. Businesses can post a job, hold a customized hiring event and select from thousands of qualified, prescreened candidates at all levels of skills and experience.
The center offers the CareerReady Colorado Certificate program, which tests and validates job applicants’ skills in critical areas such as reading for information, applied mathematics and locating information.
Businesses can take advantage of the Grow Your Own program, in which the center pays for half of a new employee’s salary for the first three months.
Services are available to any size business and most services are offered at no cost.
In 2008, for example, the center assisted 34,000 job seekers and helped dozens of companies recruit, screen, train and retain employees.
“We saved businesses more than $7 million in the Jefferson County area just by posting jobs through the local workforce region,” says Mary Russell, center director.
The center is a key component of Jeffco’s economic development efforts and often partners with other organizations, such as Red Rocks Community College, Jefferson County Business Resource Center and the Jefferson Economic Council.
For more on the Jefferson County Workforce Center, go to www.jeffcoworkforce.org.
Photo by Antony Boshier
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