The Wagner Peyser Program has nominated Tata Business Support Services as their nomination for the Workforce Escarosa Employer of the Year Award. Tata Business Support Services provides value-added contact center services with a clear focus on quality, and endeavors to be a long term partner addressing all aspects of their clients. Tata Business Support Services guarantees an excellent standard of service quality, in line with the brand characteristics and the service expectation of their individual clients. Their comprehensive framework for quality and productivity enhancement, sound project management capabilities and scientific training processes make them a partner of choice. Tata currently has transaction volumes in excess of 100 million per year through their global delivery locations. In addition, Tata is also a positive community partner, donating 1,500 new books to the 750 students of East Milton Elementary School. Workforce Escarosa partnered with Tata to provide pre-employment testing and screening services to over 600 Tata job applicants. During the past year, Tata hired 156 Workforce Escarosa job seekers, at an average wage of $9.25 per hour, plus benefits and 4 weeks paid vacation.
The Welfare Transition Program has nominated Landrum Staffing Services as their nomination for the Workforce Escarosa Employer of the Year Award. During the Program Year 2008-2009, Landrum has conducted interviews for Welfare Transition participants and offered each individual feedback about their interview and their resume. This type of feedback from the Human Resource perspective is invaluable to a participant who has had very little experience in the interviewing process. Landrum has hired more than 13 participants from the Welfare Transition program for various positions at an average salary of $10.30. Many of the participants are now full-time employed and on their way to a better life. It is because of Landrum that many of our participants have exited to employment. With Landrum’s commitment to “working a better way” and working hand in hand with Workforce Escarosa, they have assisted our Welfare Transition participants to begin a journey that leads them to economic self-sufficiency. Because of Landrum’s hard work and commitment to welfare individuals, it is our pleasure to nominate Landrum Staffing Services as the Workforce Escarosa Employer of the Year.
The Veterans’ Program has nominated Sikorsky Support Services, Inc. as their nomination for the Workforce Escarosa Employer of the Year Award. Sikorsky, as a subsidiary of Sikorsky Aerospace Maintenance (SAM), provides unparalleled maintenance, repair and other support to all branches of service, rotary or fixed-wing aircraft, through their experts at over 100 locations around the world. Sikorsky provides Contractor Logistics Support services for the T-34C and T-6B aircraft. This effort provides for organizational maintenance, intermediate maintenance and limited depot maintenance at NAS Whiting Field. Work performed at NAS Whiting Field, supports the mission of training primary flight students at Training Air Wing Five. Nearly 80,000 flight hours are flown annually in support of this program. During the fiscal year July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009, Workforce Escarosa Veterans program partnered with Sikorsky Support Services to recruit and refer applicants by listing 26 job orders. Workforce Escarosa applicants filled 22 of the 26 job orders. This gave Workforce Escarosa an 84.6% job order fill rate and provided Sikorsky Support Services with a skilled labor force to accomplish their mission. Of the 22 job orders filled, 17 of those applicants were veterans and 5 were non-veterans, resulting in a 77% veterans hiring rate. The average wage for those veterans hired was $19.62 per hour.
The Workforce Investment Act has nominated Santa Rosa Medical Center as their nomination for the Workforce Escarosa Employer of the Year Award. The Santa Rosa Medical Center is located in Milton, Florida in the heart of Santa Rosa County and is committed to offering high-quality healthcare. Their team consists of 394 full and part-time Employees, 100 physicians and 140 volunteers. The Santa Rosa Medical Center has been an excellent workforce partner to Workforce Escarosa, providing 16 Summer Youth Work Experience opportunities. In addition, Santa Rosa Medical Center also provides work experience opportunities to eight WIA Younger and Older Youth participants in the year-round WIA program. Santa Rosa Medical Center has also worked with Workforce Escarosa’s Business Services Team to recruit adult job seekers. They participated in the Workforce Escarosa Job Fair at the Santa Rosa Auditorium in May 2009 and 14 job orders were posted to the Employ Florida Marketplace during the past year for their available positions. Santa Rosa Medical Center has also expressed an interest in providing work experience internships to our Welfare Transition participants.
