SERVICES
As part
of the Virginia Jobs Investment Program, there are a number of services that we
can provide to our clients:
Planning
Meeting
After receiving a company's application, a VJIP project manager will meet with
company representatives to learn more about the company's products and
services, necessary job skills for the new positions, recruitment plans, and
existing training curricula. This information is used to develop high-quality,
custom-designed recruiting, training, and retraining programs specific to the
company's start-up expansion or retraining needs.
Community
Meeting
After assessing the company's recruiting and training needs, a VJIP project
manager may call together many of the community resources for a meeting with
the company. These resources may include the Virginia Employment Commission,
community college, private schools, local politicians, social services, the
Virginia Economic Development Partnership, and targeted vendors. This community
meeting benefits the company by having professionals in the recruiting and
educational fields in one spot to assess needs and allocate responsibilities
for the most effective recruiting and training plan.
Funding
Funding for each project is designed around net new jobs being added in Virginia by the company. Funding is based on the estimated tax benefits generated within a
one-year period and an initial cost estimate developed during the program's
design. This total budget is then divided by the number of new jobs the company
will create. This figure is the amount the company will be reimbursed for each
new job.
The streamlined reimbursement process consists of a
completed Reimbursement Form, which can
be submitted by fax or email. There must be a minimum of 25 new employees
submitted on the first reimbursement form for companies qualifying for the New
Jobs Program, and a minimum of 5 new employees submitted on the first
reimbursement form for companies qualifying for the Small Business New Jobs
Program. Employees hired before the Application Form is submitted may not be
included in the reimbursement process. All employees listed on the
Reimbursement Form must have been on board for at least 90 days and must
qualify as permanent full time employees (at least 36 hours/week) with
benefits.
Recruitment
& Training Consulting Services
A VJIP project manager can assist a company in the entire process of recruiting
new employees, including helping to determine the skills of jobs to be filled,
the schedule for hiring, developing job descriptions, and even coordinating job
fairs and pre-employment assessment & training events. In order to help a
company reach diverse, targeted labor pools, the VJIP project manager will help
identify a variety of public and private recruiting resources. The project
manager will also introduce the company to available training resources in the
area and help build relationships between the company and these local
resources.
Organizational
Development Training
Organizational
development efforts are just as important as state-of-the-art technology.
Businesses cannot be competitive without the full utilization of their human
resources. To help our clients with their employee training efforts, VJIP
offers its clients the following training modules. Each of these modules can be
customized to meet client needs. These training modules are conducted at no
cost to the company.
- Customer
Service
- Effective
Meetings
- Problem
Solving
- Recruitment
and Selection
- Supervisory
Skills
- Teams
and Team Building
- The
FISH! Philosophy of Customer Service
- Train-the-Trainer
- What
Makes You Tick? (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator)
Electronic Media
Production
VJIP can also support a company's recruiting and training efforts by producing
a CD, DVD, VHS, or even part of a website to help with a company’s business
development (for small businesses only), employee recruitment, employee
orientation, or training. Our VJIP Electronic Media Production team will coach
the company on the script writing, help decide what type of footage would best
accompany the script, shoot the appropriate footage, and then provide a
high-quality video program to the company – all at no cost to the company. All
resources gathered are implicitly client-proprietary and treated as such.
Three of
our clients have given us permission to share samples of the videos that VJIP
created for them. These are Windows Media A/V files and will take a while to
open.
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