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Workforce Solutions provides comprehensive human resource services for businesses and residents of the 13-county Houston-Galveston Gulf Coast region.
Workforce Solutions helps employers solve workforce-related business problems and area residents build careers, so that both can better compete in the changing worldwide economy.
- Our Employer Service Division provides personalized service to help employers find qualified applicants for their jobs, build the skills and expertise of their new and current employees, and address human resource needs.
- We operate multiple community-based career offices in 13 Texas Gulf Coast counties to help residents get a job, keep a job or get a better job – offering placement, career counseling and financial aid services.
- We partner with the region’s businesses,
educational institutions, civic organizations and community leaders
to find solutions to current and future labor needs of industries
that are vital to the region and its economy.
- As part of the statewide Texas Workforce Solutions network, we partner with the Texas Workforce Commission and other workforce boards in the largest job-matching database in the state--WorkInTexas.com.
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Workforce Solutions is funded by state and federal tax-dollars that are redirected back into the Gulf Coast region. We do not charge for our services.
In 2009, Workforce Solutions served almost 29% of the 125,000 businesses in the region and more than 444,125 individuals in its career offices. Of the 334,311 employer job openings available in the WorkInTexas.com job matching system for the region, 136,898 positions were filled – about 41%. The total number of persons Workforce Solutions helped get a job or get a better job was 296,000.
In its outplacement services for companies downsizing or restructuring, Workforce Solutions assisted 11,775 displaced employees from 96 companies.
The total amount of financial aid provided by Workforce Solutions for job training, education, child care and other work related needs totaled $122,895,637. This assistance helped more than 3,710 customers go to school, 3,503 of which were enrolled in post-secondary education classes to earn certificates or degrees. In addition, funds enabled a total of 5,354 youth, age 14 – 24, to work in a summer job, and 30,965 children to participate daily in early education/child care activities.
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