Businesses

Business Services:

American Job Center’s Business Services Team includes a combination of local, state, federal and community-based organizations that unite to bring offerings that are focused on delivering timely solutions to an expressed business need. This integrated style focuses on listening to what a business communicates as their need and then provides flexible, customized, and timely responses to those needs.

Business Service Manager: Sarah Cleveland
Phone: 309 393-2590
Email: sarah.cleveland@americanjob.center

Services:

Recruitment and Hiring Solutions

American Job Center can provide workforce solutions by providing recruitment services to businesses.

• Pipeline management: we can refer current and past clients who were trained in a particular field that matches business recruitment needs.


• Business and/or industry-specific recruiting events: American Job Center has a large conference room available to local business to use for hiring events. Additionally, Virtual Job Fairs are a state ran program that is free to employers.


• Assistance in writing job descriptions.


• Electronically posting job openings: American Job Center’s “Job Leads” is a weekly digital format collaboration of area job openings submitted at no charge to businesses.


• Screening, Selection and Referral: referral of current and past job seekers to businesses.


• Using facilities for recruitment and interviewing: American Job Center’s conference room is available at no charge to local businesses to facilitate recruitment and interviewing.

Training and Education Solutions

• Analysis of employee education and training needs


• Training program development


• Adult Basic Ed/General Equivalency Diplomacy/English as a Second Language


• Work-readiness training


• Work-based learning


• Closely tied to solutions sought out by businesses is the use of work- based learning (WBL) programs. Work-based learning is often the most effective tool to deliver both hands on and classroom training due to the ability to directly shape services to the needs of the business.


• Work-based learning services include:


• Apprenticeships
• Pre-Apprenticeships
• Youth Apprenticeships
• Customized Training
• On-the-Job Training
• Incumbent Worker Training
• Work Experience