Smart Workforce Solutions
Services
The Missouri Career Center has answers for your top workforce issues. As your one-stop solution to improve your workforce and the bottom line for your business, the Career Center’s professional staff of workforce consultants can put you in touch with valuable services. Contact us at our offices in Joplin or Monett for more information.
Here’s a great deal. No other Missouri electronic job matching web site offers a comprehensive posting service at no cost to you. With more than a quarter million active users of all skill and professional levels, GreatHires.org gets your opening in front of a wide audience of qualified and proactive job candidates. Best of all, GreatHires is backed with live, local customer support staff in Joplin and Monett that’s just a phone call, email, or visit away. The Virtual Video Interview system (coming soon) provides major time and cost savings for our business customers as well. Interviewing space and job fairs join the list as well.
More on Recruiting Solutions
When you work with the Career Center, you get a single point of contact for tapping into workforce services from virtually all workforce providers in Southwest Missouri. Pre-screening services, applicant testing, recruitment events, and more make the hiring process as hassle-free and productive as possible.
Make the Career Center your recruitment office with interviewing space, a resource library, high-speed internet connectivity, and more. Enjoy even more time and cost savings with the new Virtual Video Interview system
Tap into training resources and incentives for eligible employers to boost the skill of your workforce and the bottom line for your business.
- On-Site Interactive Training with the Alchemy Training SISTEM
- WorkKeys ™ assessments for credentials and training strategies
- Community College Customized Training Programs
- Apprenticeships, ESL training, and more
“Are my employees’ wages competitive? Am I in compliance?”
Regional information on industry trends, demographics, unemployment wages, commuting patterns and more help you plan for and grow your business.
With the Career Center, you can streamline government compliance processes so you can move full speed ahead. Get direction and referrals with issues such as workers compensation, unemployment taxes, immigration and disability issues, layoff assistance, employment law, and more.
“Can you help save me money?”
All services are prepaid with your tax dollars through grants to the Career Center. Use the services alone or in conjunction with your other recruitment strategies. To save even more, check out a wide array of economic development incentives related to training, financing, and tax abatement. Incentives like the Work Opportunity and Welfare-to-Work tax credits, enterprise zone tax credits, Quality Jobs incentives, and more can help you re-invest in growth of your business and Southwest Missouri’s economy.
As the leader in workforce solutions for Southwest Missouri, the Career Center depends on several powerful, effective partnerships and networking affiliations throughout the realm of Economic/Business Development, Education, and Community-Based organizations.