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Enhance your community involvement, company's leadership, and corporate philanthropy by hiring workers who face barriers to employment.
JVS seeks partnerships with individuals, business, government, and community organizations to bridge the gap between companies needing quality employees and people searching for work. JVS candidates include people with disabilities, refugees of diverse cultures, dislocated workers, and people transitioning from welfare to work. JVS-recruited personnel are pre-screened and have proven to be more productive then hires from the general community. These capable individuals have a strong work ethic that makes them sought after for promotion by employers.
Help Your Community, Help Your Business
- increase tax credits by hiring disadvantaged workers
- increase workplace diversity
- advance community involvement
- benefit from corporate philanthropy
Train-to-hire
Not sure if a new staff person is exactly the right fit for your company?
Hire an individual through the JVS Train-To-Hire supported employment program, and we will payroll, train, and help build natural supports for that person. After a few months we will help transition that employee permanently to your company. If the employee is not quite the right fit, JVS will assist you with finding other candidates.
This program helps individuals who face barriers to employment.
Hiring workers with disabilities
August 23, 2004
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Employers are fast-learning the benefits to hiring workers living with disabilities.
South Florida Wendy's restaurant owner Bob Morden is quick to testify on the subject. Mordern's West Palm Beach Wendy's has one of the fastest drive-through windows in the country. The reason: Samuel Cambridge of West Palm Beach, a highly motivated, stocky 42-year-old who looks like former boxing star Marvin Hagler.
Cambridge is also blind. He lost his sight to glaucoma in 1985.
Out of Morden's 34 employees, almost one-third, from teens to workers in their 50s, have disabilities, including visual impairments, developmental disabilities, and traumatic brain injuries. All of them have been with him at least five years.
"This is why I consider it a smart, long-term business investment," Morden said.
Other small businesses too are discovering the labor market's great secret: There are thousands of workers with disabilities waiting to become loyal, productive employees. In Broward County, for example, only 62 percent of the 21-to-64-year old population with disabilities is employed, compared with 77.2 percent of the general population.
By hiring people with disabilities, businesses can help stem high turnover and are sometimes eligible for tax credits. And on-the-job-training enhances the success of workers with disabilities.
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