Workforce Central Florida (WCF) is the Central Florida

Central Florida

Central Florida is a regional designation for the area surrounding Orlando in east central Florida, United States. The area represents the third largest population concentration in Florida, after the South Florida and Tampa Bay regions, respectively....

 region’s workforce

Workforce

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 board, responsible for workforce

Workforce

The workforce is the labour pool in employment. It is generally used to describe those working for a single company or industry, but can also apply to a geographic region like a city, country, state, etc. The term generally excludes the employers or management, and implies those involved in...

 planning, programs, and the labor market for five Florida

Florida

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 counties including Lake, Orange, Osceola, Seminole

Seminole County, Florida

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 and Sumter

Sumter County, Florida

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 counties. WCF connects employers to job seekers in the area, provides worker resources and training and prepares Central Florida

Central Florida

Central Florida is a regional designation for the area surrounding Orlando in east central Florida, United States. The area represents the third largest population concentration in Florida, after the South Florida and Tampa Bay regions, respectively....

’s residents for careers that meet local businesses’ demands.

Services for the unemployed

WCF provides no-cost employment and training solutions to local job seekers through offices in Orange

Orange County, Florida

Orange County is a county located in the U.S. state of Florida and is part of the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford Metropolitan Statistical Area . As of 2010 U.S. Census, the county had a population of 1,145,956....

, Osceola

Osceola County, Florida

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 and Lake Counties

Lake County, Florida

Lake County is a county located in the state of Florida, United States. As of the 2000 Census, the population was 210,528. The Census Bureau estimated the population in 2008 to be 307,243. Its county seat is Tavares...

, Seminole and Sumter counties. Services include:

• Job leads, placement services, resume writing assistance, career planning and counseling, training opportunities; information on filing for unemployment, veterans programs, information on community resources and agencies, and brochures on how to find a job, keep a job, and other related topics;

• An online job bank at http://www.WorkforceCentralFlorida.com;

• Job fair
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  s including virtual and in-office events with area employers;

• Scholarships for training are available to those who qualify when receiving public assistance or after a lay-off, and

• Resource Rooms that provide no-cost access to employment resources including a fax machine, a copier, telephones, computers, printers, Internet access, basic Microsoft Office software, an online resume building tool, typing software, Choices Assessment (a career interest checklist), job salary comparisons, information on growing industries in Central Florida, self-paced tutorials and training topics such as Windows, Word
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  , Excel
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  , PowerPoint and Outlook
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  .

Services for employers

WCF also provides no-cost recruitment, retention and training solutions for employers including:

• Training award programs that may pay for up 50 percent of a company’s direct training costs up to $100,000.

• An online job bank, http://www.WorkforceCentralFlorida.com, where employers can post job openings and reach job seekers across Florida.

• Job fairs throughout the community, online and in WCF offices.

• The WCF Mobile Unit, a transportable HR resource for pre-employment screening, testing, training or interviewing.

• The Lending Library, where employers can access training and human resource materials.

• WORKFORCE CENTRAL FLORIDA UNIVERSITY, monthly seminars about legal and human resource issues.

• Research on labor market information that companies may use to make business decisions such as current occupational wages, the available labor force and salary comparisons.