Re-Employment Connection

Job Seekers

Get connected to 700 jobs with the WORKFORCE CENTRAL FLORIDA Re-Employment Connection program. It’s a win, win situation – WCF will make the employee/employer connections and write the payroll checks. Each of the 700 participants selected will make $10 per hour and will work up to 40 hours per week for 12 weeks.

Job Seeker Eligibility Requirements:

• Must be age 22 or older by September 14, 2009
  
  
• Must be a resident of Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Lake or Sumter counties
  
  
• Must meet the WIA Dislocated Worker program eligibility categories
  
  
  • You may be eligible for this program if you meet one of the following criteria:
    
    
    • If you have been terminated, laid off or downsized
      
      
    • If you are eligible for receiving unemployment compensation
      
      
    • If you have exhausted your unemployment benefits
      
      
    • If you worked at a facility with more than 25 employees that announced a permanent layoff
      
      
    • If you are a homemaker who no longer receives support from another family member and are looking to enter the workforce
      
      
    • If you were self-employed and currently unemployed due to a natural disaster or economic conditions
      
      
• Priority given to veterans and their spouses
  
  
• Each month WCF will accept 75 applicants on a first come, first served basis

Employers

Get connected to WORKFORCE CENTRAL FLORIDA paid interns. You write the job descriptions and we make the connections and the payroll. By participating in the program, you’ll be paired up with employees at no cost to you.

Each of the 700 WCF-paid interns (ages 22 and up) selected with make $10 per hour, working up to 40 hours a week for 12 weeks.

Employer Eligibility Requirements:

• Nonprofit or government agency
  
  
• Selected for-profit employers with job opportunities ONLY in healthcare, green or emerging jobs, STEM (science, technology, engineering or math) jobs. At least 50% of the job duties must be directly related to healthcare, STEM or green to be considered for this program.
  
  
• A green job is defined by Workforce Florida inc. (WFI) as: “A green job increases the conservation and sustainability of natural resources for the benefit of Floridians. This includes jobs that reduce energy usage or lower carbon emissions and protect Florida’s natural resources. Green jobs should provide worker-friendly conditions, pay sustainable wages and offer opportunities for continued skill training and career growth.” In addition any employer with a green job or new and emerging job will be required to answer the following questions:
  

• Business Objective
  
  • Does your company provide:
    

  a) a service to sell, distribute or manufacture a product that reduces waste and energy consumption;
  

  b) a primary service to reuse materials that would normally be thrown away;
  

  c) primary services in recycling; or,
  

  d) or produce a primary service in renewable energy at the site where the intern will perform their tasks in the program?
  

• Participant’s Role
  
  • What task(s) will the WCF participant perform in support of green initiatives?  (A role as an administrative assistant or clerical worker must actively contribute to advancing the green initiatives.   Your WCF participant must be directly involved for more than 50 percent of his/her time during the work experience program in performing assigned job duties that advance the green initiatives of your company such as reducing waste and energy consumption).
    

•  Impact on Participant
  
  • What will the WCF participant learn about or be exposed to in the green industry that he/she can utilize as the participant pursues his or her long-term career after this internship with your organization? The participant should gain knowledge that that he/she can use or advance in pursuit of a career in Green if they decide to pursue this career.
    

 

To view the Re-Employment Program Worksite Agreement, click here.

Click here to complete the online application.