Specifications include, but are not limited to: A. Business/Employer Services: • Industry Sector Focus- aligning with the Board’s priority industry sectors as identified in the Board’s Strategic Plan, work with Board staff and Contractor staff to build employer relationships through individualized employer relationships and collectively under the auspices of industry sector partnerships managed by the board for these critical industries. ; • Outreach and Recruitment - engaging new employers to the workforce system and expanding existing employer relations.; • Employee Recruitment and Placement Services – job matching services to identify, pre-screen and refer qualified job applicants to employers, including using data about job seekers to strategically outreach for opportunities; use of career centers for hiring events and interviewing; and customized job fairs.; • Job Order Taking – providing information and assistance to employers in establishing and managing accounts in the Work-In-Texas online job matching system.; B. Job Seeker Services: • Determinations of whether the individual is eligible to receive assistance from the WIOA adult or dislocated worker programs; • Outreach and intake (including worker profiling), and orientation to information and other services available through the Texas workforce system, including other programs offered in the Career Center; • Initial assessment of skills levels, including literacy, numeracy, and English language proficiency, as well as aptitudes, abilities (including skills gaps), and support service needs; • Labor exchange services, including: o Job search and placement assistance, and, when needed by an individual, career counseling, including the provision of information on nontraditional employment and in demand industry sectors and occupations; and o Appropriate recruitment and other business services on behalf of the employers.; • Provision of referrals to and coordination of activities with other programs and services, including programs and services within the Texas workforce system and, when appropriate, other workforce development programs; Training Services: • occupational skills training; • on-the-job training, as described in WIOA §3(44); • registered apprenticeship; • incumbent worker training, at the board level, in accordance with WIOA §134(d)(4); • workplace training and cooperative education programs; • private sector training programs; • skills upgrading and retraining
