Employers – Employee Training

Lifelong learning

The WorkPlace acts as a convenor, a catalyst, a collaborator, and an advocate for workforce development throughout Southwestern Connecticut and beyond. The WorkPlace’s focus has always been “lifelong learning”, working with employers to train their employees. We offer customized job training services and incentives for specific high-growth sectors and for improving the skills and opportunities of workers.

Training can include:

• Software Training
• Effective Business Writing
• Strategic Planning
• Problem Solving & Change Management
• Supervisory Skills and Leadership
• Sales & Sales Management
• Introduction to Lean & Electronic VSM
• ACT Project Management
• OSHA Education
• APICS Supply Chain Credentials
• Any customized training of your choice!

Career Coach

The American Job Center Career Coach is a unique resource, a high-tech mobile classroom that can deliver services anywhere, anytime. The Career Coach is available to employers on a rental basis to provide training to their employees and for special events.

Resources Onboard

• 10 student workstations
• 42” interior plasma TV with Smart Board overlay
• A dedicated server for quick response time
• Satellite high speed Internet
• Private interview room
• Handicap accessible
• Lavatory

For more information or to schedule the Coach, contact: Dennis Ahearn, (203) 953-3254

STEP UP Program

The Subsidized Training and Employment Program promotes job creation and worker opportunity for Connecticut small businesses and unemployed workers.

• An initiative of the CT DOL and regional partners
• Subsidized Training and Employment Program – $5 million per year for two years
• Small Manufacturer Training Grant Program – $5 million per year for two years
• Both programs apply to “new hires”
• Eligible small businesses can only utilize one program for each eligible new hire

For more information about STEP UP call Carmen Nieves at (203) 610-8478