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Access to Talent

Investing in the Talent Pipeline

Attracting the right talent and keeping employee skills up-to-date are essential to all employers. Lehigh Valley invests in growing, recruiting, developing, and maintaining a competitive talent pipeline to help employers find and keep the talent they need to be successful.

Workforce Board Lehigh Valley and its PA CareerLink® Lehigh Valley workforce system offer a comprehensive menu of customized employer services for businesses to access qualified workers, training services, and resources including:

Personalized intermediary services to connect employers to workforce development, education, economic development and community-based partners to assist with business and industry hiring and workforce development needs
Workforce intelligence, labor market data, trends, and wage information.
Back-office Human Resources team for companies, providing workforce services at no charge including job postings on the PA CareerLink® online job matching system, customized recruiting, candidate screening and referrals, and rapid response services for business growth and right-sizing.
Specialized Job Fairs and Recruitment Events.
Workforce resources for companies through On-the-Job Training (OJT) to defray the cost of a new hire. Training subsidies available for OJT of new hires, which may result in a 50 percent wage reimbursement for up to a maximum of 1,000 hours or six months of work-based training.
Transitional Subsidized Employment (TSE) funds available to employers who hire individuals who are long-term unemployed or have inconsistent work history, amounting to 75 percent of the new hire’s wage for a maximum of 500 hours or three months.
Sector partnerships convene companies to address common workforce needs through workforce services, incumbent worker resources and special grants, as available.
Access to pre-apprenticeships, apprenticeships, internships, mentorships and work experiences to develop a workforce pipeline.
For Workforce Board Lehigh Valley data, click here.

For more information, contact Gina Kormanik, Director of Community Planning, Workforce Board Lehigh Valley, 610-841-1006 or GKormanik@WorkforceLV.org.