Workforce development leads to prosperous employees, businesses, and local communities. By training and upskilling our workforce, companies can enjoy happier employees, lower turnover, and exciting growth opportunities — not to mention support growth for the economy as a whole.
You don’t have to tackle workforce development alone. Our team can assist with recruitment and retention, labor market and wage analyses, closure and layoff aversion, and information about grant and tax credits to offset hiring and training expenses.
Community College Workforce Alliance (CCWA)
As the workforce division of Reynolds and Brightpoint Community Colleges, the Community College Workforce Alliance (CCWA) is the go-to resource for businesses and individuals looking for training, advancement, and high-demand career opportunities. CCWA supports the development of a ready workforce in Central Virginia by working with jobseekers and businesses to ensure well-trained, qualified workers are prepared to fill the positions our businesses need.
Hanover County Public Schools Cooperative Work Experience Program
Co-WEP connects the classroom to the real world. This program offers knowledge, skills and experiences to students with disabilities in an authentic work environment. Students gain real world experience by working in businesses in their community. Co-WEP provides students with career related experiences that support their career goals and prepares them for education and employment beyond high school. In partnership with businesses and community organizations, Co-WEP brings the classroom into the workplace and teaches students the skills employers are looking for. Co-WEP is a key part in transition services for our students. Students that participate in Co-WEP are supervised by a transition teacher from HCPS during the work session. The transition teacher works with the business in developing jobs for the students based on their skills and interests.
HCPS has partnered with several businesses and is looking to add to our growing list. For more information please contact Matt Banning mbbanning@hcps.us or Kimberly Ragsdale kragsdale@hcps.us
Hanover Center for Trades and Technology (THCTT)
The Hanover Center for Trades and Technology strives to create effective partnerships among students, parents, staff, and the community that enable students to become workplace-ready and develop into lifelong learners prepared to succeed in a competitive and ever-changing world. As a career and technical education center for junior and senior high school students of Hanover County, we are preparing every student for future success. Current program offerings include automotive technology, carpentry, cosmetology, culinary arts, electricity and HVAC/R. Contact Megan Hendrick, Work-Based Learning Coordinator, Hanover County Public Schools at mhendrick@hcps.us.
This app, maintained by Hanover County Economic Development, provides direct links to a business’ job page or job search website of Hanover-based companies. Each listing also includes representative job openings, a description of the company, address information, a link to the company’s website, and additional instructions about accessing local jobs on each company’s web page. Hanover employers may apply to be included on the App by using the link above.
Hanover County Community Services (HCSS) Employment Services – Supported Employment
Supported Employment is a program that supports individuals with disabilities to find and maintain employment through matching their skills and abilities with employers in the community. Employment Specialists work one on one with Hanover businesses to understand your workforce needs and then match the skills of individuals with disabilities with the unique needs of your business. Supported Employment promotes diversity and inclusion and is a service provided at no cost to employers. To learn more, view this short video.
Informational Webinar available:
Supported Employment Building for the Future: Your Questions Answered
Network2WorkRVA connects skilled job seekers with quality employers looking to fill good paying roles in their company. A robust network of providers ensures the necessary training, support and resources needed to put employers and job seekers on a path to success!
Virginia Career Works – Capital Region
Funded through the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), Virginia Career Works serves eight jurisdictions of Greater Richmond which includes Hanover County. For job seekers, Career Works can help with job searches, career services, updating skills, youth and veteran services, networking and additional resources. For businesses, they offer services such as labor market information, recruiting and screening, employee development and consulting services.
Virginia Workforce Connection (Virginia Career Works)
The Virginia Workforce Connection provides comprehensive job matching between job seekers and employers, wage data, skill requirements, veteran services, industry and occupational trends as well as information on potential training opportunities.
Through the Virginia Employment Commission, employers can post job listings and search for qualified employees in the Virginia Workforce Connection database, analyze labor market information and locate business services. In addition to administering the State’s unemployment insurance program, VEC also provides resources for workforce training and employer incentive programs. For job seekers, VEC provides assistance with job searches, creating and posting a resume, job training opportunities and more.
Richmond Electrician’s Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee (RJATC)
The Richmond Electricians’ Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee (RJATC) has been a Registered Apprenticeship since 1946, and is approved and registered with the State of Virginia and the U.S. Department of Labor. It is a joint training program between the Atlantic Coast Chapter of the National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local Union 666, aimed at training the best electrical workers the industry has to offer. The RJATC is part of the largest apprenticeship and training organization of its kind in the United States, the Electrical Training ALLIANCE (ETA), which has trained over 350,000 apprentices to journey worker status through local affiliate programs throughout the country.
Virginia Jobs Investment Program (VJIP)
VJIP is a discretionary program offered by the State that provides funding to companies creating new jobs or experiencing technological change to reduce the human resource development costs for new companies, expanding companies, and companies retraining their employees. In addition to direct funding to offset a company’s recruitment and training costs, Regional Talent Solutions Business Managers offer human resource consultative support at no charge.
Virginia Talent Accelerator Program
The Virginia Talent Accelerator Program, delivered by the Virginia Economic Development Partnership and the Virginia Community College System, provides world-class training and recruitment solutions that are fully customized to a company’s unique operations, equipment, standards, and culture. All program services are provided at no cost to qualified new and expanding companies as an incentive for job creation.
The Virginia Values Veterans (V3) Program is a Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Veterans Services Program whose mission is to educate and train employers throughout the Commonwealth on the Value of Virginia’s Veterans, and to help employers connect with these personnel assets to maximize the productivity of their workforce. We are committed to assisting employers recruit, hire, train, and retain Veterans.
Whether your company wants training on how Veterans can help your business, need resources and assistance connecting with Veterans, or simply want to share your Veteran hiring efforts with the rest of the Commonwealth, the V3 program is for you!