Employers

Workforce Development Services to Business and Industry


Hope Network has been assisting the business community since 1964 with employment solutions. We connect employers to individuals re-entering the workforce who are seeking a fulfilling career.

Employers receive individualized services from Workforce Development staff who help them fill available positions with individuals that match the employers’ needs. 


How Your Company Benefits

Our staff work closely with you to develop specific training programs for your company to support the success and retention of new hires. The Human Resource Industry estimates an entry-level position costs the employer a minimum of $1200 per turnover. Hope Network WFD helps reduce these costs by pre-screening candidates, pre-employment testing, scheduling job fairs, hosting employer orientation and interviewing, as well as post-hire retention and case management support.

Hope Network Workforce Development offers:

  • Reduced time and dollars spent on recruitment and training
  • Access to pre-screened candidates
  • Our experienced recruitment and retention staff
  • Opportunity to meet diversity goals by employing local people with barriers to employment
  • Recognition as a business that cares about its community
  • Opportunities for employer tax credits
  • All services free to employers


How We Prepare

Hope Network Workforce Development provides job seekers with one-on-one assessments and group workshops designed to help individuals gain the skills necessary for successful employment. 

Our job seekers receive the following vocational rehabilitation services:

  • Vocational Evaluation/Situational Assessment
  • Interest testing
  • Light duty job consultation
  • Work adjustment training
  • Job placement services
  • Follow along and retention support

Our range of services can be tailored to meet the needs of each customer we serve —job seekers and employers — and thereby better serve them all.

Feel free to Ask Jenny any questions you may have about our programs or services.

 

 
   


Free Tax Preparation Services Available at Hope Network Education Center
1/26/2012
Hope Network Workforce Development has partnered with Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA) through Davenport University, to be a host site for free tax preparation services. This service is available to all Hope Network staff, consumers and the public.

Income tax assistance is available on Fridays, beginning February 3rd, from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Education Center in Grand Rapids.
 
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The Book of Cake Debut
12/22/2011

Hope Network hosted a special book signing of the new book, 'The Book of Cake' a collection of Cake stories from the past year which feature Hope Network consumers, employees and volunteers. 

Award winning writer Tom Rademacher, who writes the stories for Hope Network,  addressed the crowd of employees, Board Members and many of the people featured in the stories. 

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United Way Small Business Challenge
12/20/2011
Heart of West Michigan United Way invites you to take on the Small Business Challenge, created through a generous matching grant of $100,000 from the Steelcase Foundation. Any new United Way gift of $1,000 or more from a workplace of 100 or less employees will be matched up to a total of $100,000 by the end of March 2012.
 
Small businesses are the heart of most communities, yet during the 2010 United Way Campaign small businesses of 100 employees or less made up only 11.5% of total campaign dollars. This campaign year, United Way is hoping to change that with the Small Business Challenge.