Editorial objective:1- give diverse jobseekers sound information on job opportunities and how to successfully navigate the job search process,2- invite “employers of choice” to share success secrets and valuable information on where the jobs are.
Issue link: http://diversityemployers.epubxp.com/i/224970
www.directemployers.org WHAT EMPLOYERS ARE DOing TO REcRuiT Entry-LEvEL taLEnt D irectEmployers Association and The National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA) have entered into a long-term alliance to develop and jointly administer an employer-funded national employment system to replace America's Job Bank, which has been discontinued by the U.S. Department of Labor. DirectEmployers Association is a nonproft consortium of over 670 leading U.S. employers. Its membership and board of directors includes an impressive group of industry leaders such as IBM, McGraw-Hill Companies and General Motors. NASWA, a nonproft organization of administrators of state unemployment and job-training services, signed a fve year alliance agreement with DirectEmployers to create a National Labor Exchange. The alliance agreement is automatically renewable for successive one-year terms. In the past, America's Job Bank was used extensively by colleges and universities to connect students and alumni with employers across the country. Large companies used it to post parttime jobs, internships, and other employment opportunities for college students and to satisfy federal job posting requirements for veterans. Small and medium-size companies used the federally-funded system for the same reasons, plus it was inexpensive. The need for employers to connect with students and alumni was not forgotten or disregarded by the architects of the new National Labor Exchange site as evidenced by the partnerships they have forged with leading college and university associations. The National Labor Exchange has a partnership agreement with the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) to connect students and alumni nationwide with states and employers through the national employment system. Jobs are available to college students and alumni through NACElink or by linking directly to the National Labor Exchange site. Established in 1956, NACE connects more than 5,200 college career services professionals at nearly 2,000 college and universities nationwide and more than 3,000 professionals focused on college relations and recruiting. Today, the association represents almost 1,200 two-year, associate degree-granting institutions. The National Labor Exchange helps companies meet their general staffng needs at the time of an impending national labor shortage which has heightened the need for employers to 26 Diversity Employers | DiversityEmployers.com | First Semester December 2013 By Ed Ward attract a diverse workforce including minorities, veterans, seniors, physically challenged, students and women to the workforce. It also allows companies to work directly with government offcials at all levels in responding to national emergency recruiting needs such as those experienced as a result of the Katrina disaster. The National Labor Exchange provides state workforce agencies the opportunity to choose a wide range of services from taking job listing downloads from the National Labor Exchange to uploading jobs to the National Labor Exchange. Under terms of the DirectEmployers/ NASWA agreement, jobs from the national database are distributed to participating state job banks. "The discontinuance of America's Job Bank along with the projected labor shortage caused by baby-boomer retirements and a dwindling workforce provides a formidable challenge for all employers," says Brian E. Jensen, Global Director of Talent Acquisition at Towers Watson. "The National Labor Exchange provides an opportunity for companies to meet their compliance and staffng requirements in an environment which is owned, managed and controlled by employers in partnership with state workforce agencies."