Hocking County Job Services Center

The purpose of the Hocking County Job Services Center is to continuously develop and deliver labor market clearinghouse services that meet the identified needs of job seekers, workers, employers, and community service providers. We will assist job seekers to find and keep a job by assuring that each individual receives needed training, education, focus, and guidance to find and keep the job for which they are best suited.

We will help area employers expand their businesses by supplying them with qualified workers equipped with the right skills to meet their industry-specific needs. We will support local economic growth, attracting jobs to the area by promoting and advertising the available, skilled workforce of Hocking County.

1) Why Do We Need the Job Services Center? Our purpose relates to friends, family, and neighbors–your community. The purpose relates to how your community intends to maintain its lifestyle over the next decades, in a global economy. Without this purpose, it is impossible for your community to stay on the competitive edge.

2) What Are Specialized Adaptable Skills for Workers? Staying competitive for an individual means surviving in a labor market where jobs are more broadly defined, yet specialized skills are needed. Workers need stronger basic, professional, technical, and job search skills that translate across employer and industry. They must develop specialized adaptable skills in response to quickly changing industries and workplaces. Specialized
adaptable skills mean the skills need to be job specific and yet flexible for completing multiple tasks outside of singular job descriptions and, therefore, transferable across a variety of workplace settings.

3) How Do These Skills Help Employers? For an employer this means producing a quality product/service, with a highly productive, adaptable, and a skilled workforce in a high performance work organization where outcomes are driven by customer and market demands. In a world economy, employers must react to more competitive and saturated markets. This means finding smaller niches, which in turn calls for quicker responses to fluctuating markets and more flexible workplaces. (Cappelli 1992)

4) Who Needs to Be Involved in Workforce Development? To avoid duplicate services, be cost efficient, and to succeed, it requires all the partners: economic developers, employers, social service providers, training and education providers funding bodies, community-based organizations, public agencies, unions, and job seekers. It is for this reason that we have created an integrated, seamless delivery system to collaboratively serve in
this effort. As a collaborative, evolving, and flexible system, it answers everyone’s needs by responding to the dynamics of a local labor market. Motivated by survival, the One-Stop approach will be used to continually develop real applicable services to the workforce and employers of Hocking County.