Serving Southern Indiana Businesses
The Region’s Career Center for Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Crawford, Scott and Washington counties in Indiana. We provide individuals with training and career services, and partner with businesses to develop solutions to address their talent needs. All programs and services are available to individuals based on eligibility and funding available.
Labor Market
Having the right and most current information is crucial, whether making a career move or moving and expanding your business.
Together we can make the difference
RECRUITMENT ASSISTANCE
Southern Indiana Works provides a number of customized business solutions designed to help employers attract and recruit skilled, job-ready employees for their business.
Hiring Events
The WorkOne Career Center offers information on hiring events that attract applicants from throughout the Indiana and Kentucky region to serve the employment needs of local employers.
Indiana Career Connect
Indiana Career Connect is Indiana’s Labor Exchange System that allows employers to match qualified applicants with their employment needs, free of charge.
- Extensive database of job seekers with the right skills and qualifications.
- Ability to post job openings at no charge.
- Customized searches that allow you to find the right candidates.
- Access to staff assistance to get your jobs posted and find candidates.
- Information on labor availability and labor market data.
Pre-Employment Screening
WorkOne offers free pre-employment screening of candidates for skills, education, knowledge, and employment history. Screening tools, such as WorkKeys, can be used to help evaluate applicants. ACT® WorkKeys is a nationally renowned system of job profiling and assessments to identify the tasks and skills that are most critical to perform a job.
Human Resources Assistance
WorkOne provides a variety of unique business services to meet individual needs of employers. WorkOne Staff are available to provide information on important human resource topics.
Layoff Assistance
Our Southern Indiana Works team can provide assistance to your business during times of economic uncertainty that result in downsizing, mass-layoffs, and plant closures. Rapid Response employment services provide a pro-active strategy designed to respond to worker layoffs and business closings quickly by providing immediate assistance to companies and impacted workers. A Rapid Response Team will be made available to help your impacted employees access resources and services that will assist them to transition back into the workforce quickly.
The Worker Retraining and Adjustment Act (WARN) was passed in 1988 to provide workers with time to prepare for the transition between the job they currently hold and a new job. Employers are required to provide a 60-day notice in advance of covered plant closings and covered mass layoffs. Notice must be provided to impacted workers, their representatives (i.e. a labor union), to the State Workforce Transition Unit, and the appropriate unit of local government.
To File A WARN Notice
For further assistance, contact your local representative:
Cindy Mahoney
Business Services Manager
Additional Information
For additional information on WARN Act requirements please refer to the links below or phone the U.S. Department of Labor at (202) 693-3500. WARN notices U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration Fact Sheet dol.gov
Together we can make the difference
Employer Training Grant
More than one million jobs must be filled in Indiana over the next 10 years. To help Hoosier employers fill these jobs, Indiana has created the Employer Training Grant (ETG), which reimburses employers who train, hire, and retain new or incumbent workers to fill in-demand positions within recognized job fields. The Employer Training Grant is available to help fill in-demand positions within six priority sectors. The grant will reimburse employers up to $5,000 per employee who is trained, hired, and retained for six months, up to $50,000 per employer.
More than 100 in-demand, high wage occupations are eligible in the priority sectors of Manufacturing, Agriculture, Construction, Health Sciences, IT/Business Services, and Transportation/Logistics.
Does My Business Qualify?
Here Are Important Details Concerning Qualifications Before Applying:
- Your Business must be located in Indiana.
- There is an opportunity to view eligible occupations in the eligible industries if you follow this link Eligible Occupations | Next Level Jobs. There are many jobs that are eligible on this list you may not realize would qualify.
- Are all training plans at least 40 hours in length?
- Any questions, please call or email:
- Cindy Mahoney 812.941.6414 | cindy@soinworks.com
- Kathy Erdman 812.941.644 | kerdman@dwd.in.gov
