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Recruiting - IWD staff seeks to match job seekers against the employment needs of prospective employers, and to make appropriate referrals. No fees are charged. Jobs listed with IWD are posted
on several Internet sites:
Iowa Jobs,
Job Central, Smart
Career Move, and on the "Local
Job Opportunities" section of this website. Smart Career Move is for jobs paying a minimum of
$30,000 per year.
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Outreach - Regions 3 and 4
provide area employers assistance with recruitment needs, coordination of large-scale recruitment such as
career and employment fairs, and marketing of IWD products and services.
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Career and Employment Fairs - Annual career
and employment fairs are held in both Regions 3 and 4, offering employers and job seekers the opportunity to interact at a single location.
Employers are
charged a nominal fee to cover advertising costs.
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Testing Services - Planning on hiring a new secretary who must be able to type 65 words per minute? IWD staff can administer – at no charge to the employer or job seeker – proficiency tests for typing, 10 key and spelling.
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OPACŪ— The
Office
Proficiency Assessment and Certification System (OPAC) is the
premier PC and office skills testing suite. With an array of
over 30 tests the OPAC System is the perfect tool to measure job
applicant PC and office skills.
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Reverse Referrals - This service directs all interested job seekers to apply for openings at the IWD offices, freeing the employer’s time for other tasks.
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Work Keys & Accuvision - A system developed by American College Testing (ACT) for documenting and improving work place skills.
Work Keys
is implemented in three steps: Job Profiling, Assessments, and Training Targets. Work Keys allows employers to screen employees with needed skills, determine training needs of entry level and current employees, and provide schools with information on how to prepare students for the workplace.
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Tax Credits - The Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) and Welfare to Work Tax Credit (WtWTC) offers employers federal income tax credit if they hire persons from certain qualified groups, such as the low income or disabled.
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Labor Market Information - Current
Labor Market Information
is available on various economic trends and occupations, including data on prevailing wage rates and projected job outlooks.
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Free Space - Want to
interview or test prospective applicants away from your office? IWD
offers free meeting rooms to employers for job interviews (when
available) and Resource Center space for employers to display and
distribute job information.
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Employers' Council of Iowa - This group of local employers holds regular meetings to discuss common concerns and to sponsor seminars on topics of interest.
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Child Labor Forms - IWD
staff authorizes
Work
Permits/Certificates of Age to young people seeking to enter the
job market. Anyone who is less than age 18 and planning to go to work
must secure this verification that they are old enough for the job in
question, and that the job is safe for them to perform.
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Required Posters - General requirements and ordering information is available for state and federal required employer posters.
These posters are available at no cost to the public from
IWD. (The Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view and print this file
and can be
downloaded
free of charge.)
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Business Closings/Downsizing -
Should your business experience closing or restructuring, IWD staff and its partners are ready to help employees make the transition to other employment. Laid-off workers are provided access to services, including financial support and training.
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Tax Liability Information
- IWD tax liability specialists are housed in Spencer and LeMars to work with new and existing employer accounts. Businesses located in
Clay, Dickinson, O’Brien and Osceola counties should call
Deb Schloss at
(712) 262-1971 extension 129 Monday through Thursday.
Maria Hobbs covers both Sioux and Lyon counties, and can be reached at
(712) 233-9046. The toll-free number in Des Moines is 1 (800)
972-2024.
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Unemployment Insurance Tax Forms
and Publications - A number of
commonly required or requested forms are available
on-line.
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Immigration - Employers, in
most cases, need to obtain work authorization for foreign nationals
prior to hiring. Alien labor insures that employers will not
displace US workers or that the employment of alien workers will not
have an adverse effect on the wages and working conditions of
similarly employed US workers. The alien labor certification
process applies to temporary visas such as the HIB, H2A and immigrant
visas. Questions regarding this process can be addressed to John
McDonald, Alien Labor Cerification specialist at (515) 281-9336, or by
e-mail at John.McDonald@iwd.iowa.gov.
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Unemployment Insurance Fraud - Iowa
Workforce Development's fraud detection program attempts to prevent
and detect unemployment benefits paid to claimants through willful
misrepresentation or error by the claimant, through IWD error, or
misrepresentation by others. Better detection and prevention of
improper unemployment insurance benefit payments results in a decrease
in benefits payouts, which in turn decreases employer taxes. If
you have any questions or suspect someone is fraudulently claiming job
insurance benefits, contact Larry Finley at (712) 233-9040.
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Iowa Advantage - A series of four
workshops are available to Iowans in employment transition. They
include:
There is no cost to attend any of the
Iowa Advantage workshops. For more information on class schedules, or
to pre-register, contact your local Iowa Workforce Development office or
check out the IWD on-line calendar
http://www.iowaworkforce.org/advantage/calendar.asp
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Iowa Works - Iowa Workforce
Development has a new one-stop resource for Iowa businesses to find
workforce information and solutions. Businesses can use
Iowa
Works to submit job openings electronically, find the
average wage paid for Iowa occupations, print posters required for
Iowa workplaces, link their website to our
Business
Directory, and more.
