How your business can utilize the career link program[1]
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The document summarizes the Career Link Program, which helps students transition into the workforce through internships, consideration for direct hires, and business advisory committee participation. The program has over 200 business partners and places students in fields like technology, healthcare, retail, and grocery. Businesses benefit from tax credits, reduced turnover, and a screened applicant pool. The program ensures students are covered by worker's compensation insurance during internships.
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How your business can utilize the career link program[1]
- 1. Ann Sebek Irvine Unified School District Job Developer How your business can utilize the Career Link Program asebek@iusd.org (949) 936-8640
- 2. What is Career Link? • Career Link is a program through Irvine Unified School District that helps students transition into the work force. • Since 1981 we have created successful training opportunities for youth and young adults, many with disabilities, ages 16-26. • We work with over 200 business partners in the community, and have developed relationships to enable our youth to participate in career preparation activities. • Our program is almost entirely grant funded, including grants from the California Department of Education , the California Department of Rehabilitation, and Workforce Investment program.
- 3. Benefits to our Business Partners Include: • Tax Credits and Hiring Incentives • Savings in Employee Recruitment & Turnovers • Screened and Trained Applicant Pool • Employment Support
- 4. What About Insurance? • Irvine Unified School District is self-insured for worker’s compensation. Students enrolled in the Career Link Program, when placed in a non-district work environment, are considered employees of the Irvine Unified School District and are covered for any injury sustained while participating at the work site.
- 5. Please consider partnering with us to provide: A. Internships • Our ultimate goal is paid employment, but to achieve this we have found that internships are a vital means for our participants to gain valuable work training experience. Most internships are unpaid, but in some instances we are able to offer paid internships. B. Consideration for Direct Hires • Will you consider interviewing our pre-screened applicants? We are preparing our youth and young adults for entry level positions, and would like to recommend those applicants that we feel are ready for the open positions your company is seeking to fill. C. Business Advisory Committee participation • Our local businesses have a lot to offer through training and employment opportunities for our youth. We hope you will consider attending our meetings twice a year.
- 6. Business Advisory Council • We are looking for businesses to join our Business Advisory Council, (BAC). The mission of the BAC is to assist and support the objectives of our federal grants by representing the perspective of business and employers. Information and assessment of employment trends and needs provided at these meetings are important components which help us enhance employment opportunities for youth. • We meet twice a year at a business that is located in the immediate area so that it is convenient for our business partners to attend. The meetings are kept to a one hour time frame, usually meeting from 9-10:00AM, in the fall and spring each year. • Our meetings are a great way for our office to publicly thank our business partners with a certificate of partnership and participation, and it’s also a nice opportunity for our business partners to network with other businesses in the community. We usually rotate our meeting locations so that our partners get a chance to host a meeting and showcase their business.
- 7. Businesses partnering with Career Link include some of the following:
- 10. Sample Work Duties Food Services Clothing/Retail/Sports • Folding pizza boxes • Empty dressing rooms • Wiping down • Folding merchandise tables/chairs • Unpacking/unloading • Rolling silverware • Cleaning/waxing • Refilling condiments rounders • Sweeping • Adhering price tags • Cleaning bathrooms • Merchandising end • Wiping down video caps games • Helping customers • Refilling napkin containers
- 11. Sample Work Duties, Cont. Technology Grocery • Keeping video games • Retrieving carts in alphabetical order • Bagging groceries • Dusting • Sweeping • Adhering price tags • Cleaning bathrooms • Vacuuming • Merchandising shelves • Collapsing boxes for • Customer Service recycle • Breaking down boxes • Loading/Unloading of • Refilling salad bar merchandise • Cleaning sneeze guards • Door Greeter
- 12. Our goal is simple. We connect education and business to support workforce development and ensure a well prepared future workforce.
- 14. Questions? Please call or email one of our contacts: Ann Sebek Job Developer asebek@iusd.org (949) 936-8640 Heidi Castillo Job Developer hcastill@iusd.org (949) 677-2957 Paul Harvey Business Consultant paulgishharvey@gmail.com (949) 648-1125
Editor's Notes
- #2: Hi, my name is Ann Sebek, and I work for the Career Link Program at Irvine Unified School District as a I Job Developer. Today I would like to share a little about the methods that I use to work with employers in our community and to give you some strategies that may be helpful for Job Developers. I don’t have all the answers, but I am happy to share what is working for us.
- #8: This is a small Example of some of the successful corporate business partners we have developed. If you share these locations with others in your office, or other neighboring school districts, we then are all working together to place our participants into jobs in our communities.
- #9: This is a small Example of some of the successful corporate business partners we have developed. If you share these locations with others in your office, or other neighboring school districts, we then are all working together to place our participants into jobs in our communities.
- #10: This is a small Example of some of the successful corporate business partners we have developed. If you share these locations with others in your office, or other neighboring school districts, we then are all working together to place our participants into jobs in our communities.