Columbia Greene Workforce New York will be holding a Fall Job Fair on Wednesday, October 29th from 10am- 2pm. Last year over 400 job seekers attended our spring event. The Job Fair will be held at Columbia Greene Community College and is open to the public. For more information call/email the number listed below.

The Columbia Greene Workforce Area has recently begun to use Prove It, a skills assessment program for job seekers. Prove It has over 900 validated tests and is now available to assist businesses with prescreening potential employees. Assessments cover a wide content area including clerical, software, industrial, healthcare, financial and technical job classifications. Please review the following link, the Prove It website and contact me to discuss how we can assist you in identifying the most qualified applicants for your positions! http://www.columbiagreeneworks.org/Online-assesment.html

On Line Learning is now available to job seekers to close skills gaps through Greene Workforce New York. If you have job applicants that have not passed your pre-hiring testing please refer them to the Career Center so they will have the opportunity to remediate their skills using the NY Wired, Matrix Learning system enabling them to more quickly re-enter the workforce.

HRCI recertification credits are available

The NYS DOL Division of Labor Standards exists to assist employers in their efforts to achieve compliance with labor laws by providing education, consultation and enforcement services in a fair, timely and consistent manner. Discussion will focus on the functions of the Division of Labor Standards, the existing wage orders, deductions from wages, tip appropriation, fringe benefits, notice requirements, meal periods and employment of minors.

Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008, 8:00 am Breakfast, 8:30-10:00 Program, Q & A’s $15.00 per person, cost includes breakfast
Location: Columbia Greene Community College, Professional Academic Center
Trainer: Elizabeth Ares, Sr. Investigator
Contact: Debra Lombardo: 828-4654 ext. 4209; Fax 828-8474 or debra.lombardo@labor.state.ny.us

Looking for a low cost, efficient marketing tool that will distribute your business logo to over 600 businesses? The Columbia Greene JSEC is seeking sponsors for many of it's 2008-2009 programs. The cost is $125 and it includes two program registrations; an opportunity to briefly address program participants and distribute corporate literature. Your logo will also be attached to the program flyer which is sent to over 600 businesses, as well as the media, Chambers of Commerce, CRHRA and many other organizations.

Excel Level 3: Monday, October 20th from 9-4, $97.00
Introduction to Quickbooks Pro 2007: Monday, October 27th from 9-4, $107.00
Contact: Columbia Greene Community College 828-4181 ext. 3342 during regular business hours for registration.

The training will explore the major causes of employee dissatisfaction and the steps you can take to retain your best and brightest people – those people your competition is looking to take away from you.

Date: Wednesday, September 24 from 12 – 1 p.m.
Registration: http://www.us.manpower.com/webinars

The Department of Labor, Division of Safety & Health offers a wide variety of safety training at no cost. Below is a schedule of an upcoming training offering that will be held in the Albany area. The link below is the complete course catalogue. If you have an interest in a particular topic and we can get together a group of trainees there is the possibly of holding the training session here at Columbia Greene Community College, Professional Academic Center.
Training Course Catalogue: http://www.labor.state.ny.us/workerprotection/safetyhealth/PDFs/21D/On-Site%20Training%20Catalogue.pdf

Training Topic: Preventing Workplace Violence

This course is designed to help you identify methods and strategies to address the prevention of workplace violence. A discussion will be held on what steps you need to take to help prevent workplace violence situations.

Date: September 19, 2008. 9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Location: NYS Department of Labor, State Office Building Campus Building 12, Training Room A
Contact:Rosalind Compton, Compton.Rosalind@dol.gov or (518) 457-2810

Training Topic: Silica Hazards

Construction and Mine workers that work around silica are exposed to serious health hazards. This awareness level course will provide students an overview of the regulations, and hazards associated with silica as well as how to minimize exposure to these toxic substances.

Date: October 8, 2008, 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Trainer: NYS Department of Labor in conjunction with Capital Safety Services
Location: Capital Safety Services Training Center, 520 Livingston Avenue, Albany, NY 12206
Contact:To register for this class, please contact Terry Yates at (518) 461-7921

Training Topic: Emergency Evacuation

Learn how to provide your employees with the information they need to react in a positive manner to an emergency at your workplace. Attendees will receive sample programs, information about proper evacuation procedures, instructions on the OSHA standard, and how to conduct workplace evacuations.

Date: October 9, 2008, 9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Location: NYS Department of Labor, State Office Building Campus Building 12, Training Room A
Contact:Rosalind Compton, Compton.Rosalind@dol.gov or (518) 457-2810

Training Topic: Confined Space Entry

Learn how to identify confined spaces, the hazards associated with confined spaces, how to develop safe entry procedures and confined space entry program. This course includes a examples to assess and characterize typical confined spaces found in the workplace and provides a written guide to satisfying the OSHA standard requirements (Employer Guide and Model Permit-Required Confined Space Entry Plan}

Date: November 12, 2008, 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Trainer: NYS Department of Labor in conjunction with Capital Safety Services
Location: Capital Safety Services Training Center, 520 Livingston Avenue, Albany, NY 12206
Contact:To register for this class, please contact Terry Yates at (518) 461-7921

Training Topic: Job Hazard Analysis

Identify, then eliminate or reduce, workplace hazards before they injure your workers. Learn how to break tasks down into their component parts, determine what can go wrong at each step, and take action to prevent problems before they happen. This course is intended for safety officers, safety committee members, in-house inspection teams, and managers or supervisors with safety and health responsibilities.

Date: November 14, 2008, 9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Location: NYS Department of Labor, State Office Building Campus Building 12, Training Room A
Contact:Rosalind Compton, Compton.Rosalind@dol.gov or (518) 457-2810

Training Topic: Accident Investigation

Even the best Accident Prevention Program cannot eliminate every incident or accident. However, something can be learned from each incident so it does not happen again. This session is designed to help you learn how to investigate all incidents in your workplace and how to use that information to prevent similar events from occurring in the future.

Date: December 5, 2008, 9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Location: NYS Department of Labor, State Office Building Campus Building 12, Training Room A
Contact:Rosalind Compton, Compton.Rosalind@dol.gov or (518) 457-2810

Training Topic: Fall Protection

Falls from elevations are a major cause of fatalities in the construction industry. This course helps to identify common risk factors, the requirements of the OSHA standards, and recommended general approaches to prevent these accidents. Types of fall protection and their usage are explained. OSHA updates are provided.

Date: December 10, 2008, 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 a.m.
Trainer: NYS Department of Labor in conjunction with Capital Safety Services
Location: Capital Safety Services Training Center, 520 Livingston Avenue, Albany, NY 12206
Contact:To register for this class, please contact Terry Yates at (518) 461-7921

OEHC is a non-profit occupational health center dedicated to the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of occupational and environmental illness and injury. OEHC provides medical services, training and educational programs for eight counties including Columbia and Greene.

AVAILABLE CLINICS:

• Diagnoses for work-related diseases
• Treatment for injured or ill workers
• Screening for workers at increase risk
• Industrial hygiene evaluation of workplace hazards
• Recommendations to reduce or eliminate hazards in the workplace
• Training and education for workers, employers, unions and healthcare professionals

TEEN WORKER SAFETY INITIATIVE

Did you know?

• 200,000 young workers are injured annually on the job in this country
• 70,000 end up in the hospital with serious injuries
• One teen worker dies every 5 days

Check out : http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/teenworkers/teenworkers.html
Contact: Susan Zucker at 518-690-4420 ext 220 or szucker@occmedgroup.com for info or to discuss providing educational programs, including TEEN SAFETY, services, trainings or flu clinics at your worksite.

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Recruitment

Employers with a mailing address in New York State who register and log in on the national America's Job Exchange site (www.americasjobexchange.com) will be charged a $49.00 fee per job posting. Any New York State employer who wishes to avoid the fee must register on the New York State site (www.americasjobexchange.com/ny). For this purpose, if the employer is already registered on the national site - he or she must re-register on the New York State site. Please remember that all employers that register with NYSAJE are required to have an active Federal Employer Identification Number (FEIN) obtain through the IRS and a New York State Employer Identification Number (SEIN) obtain through NYSDOL-Registration.

The Youth Internship Support Program’s mission is to connect local employers with high school or college students to promote the quality career opportunities that exist in our community. Employers benefit by providing full or part time paid internships that focus on promoting the high skill jobs in which they have the most difficult time recruiting qualified candidates. This new program will begin in the fall.

Job Central is a site that will “index” or transfer jobs that are listed on your business website to Job Central for no cost. When job seekers click on your listing they are directly connected to your corporate website. If your available positions are on line and listed individually (vs one page with a listings of all positions and with no separate link for each position) this service is for you! Register now at http://www.jobcentral.com/indexingrequest.asp

The Career Center offers Job Fairs twice a year, for the times between events we have on site recruitment options for you. If you would like the opportunity to meet with a number of job seekers, talk to us about on site recruitment. This can happen in either of two ways, if you are looking for part time/weekend help, college students may be a great solution. Your business can set up a table in front of the Student Center. This would provide you with a high traffic area to advertise positions, meet and talk with students about your available positions.

If you are looking to fill full time positions and would like to meet a group of potential employees for interviews or to provide information about your business, we recommend you place and ad in the newspaper, list your positions with the Career Center we will schedule a room for you here at Columbia Greene Community College, Workforce Career Center. In addition we will list the event on our website and the NYSDOL site, post a flyer here in the Career Center, the college and distribute to local agencies.

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