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On-the-Job Training (OJT) Overview

You Hire, You Train, We PAY

On-the-Job (OJT) funds are available to companies interested in hiring workers but unable to find people with the exact skills they desire but are willing to train. Companies are reimbursed between 50 and 90 percent of the wages paid to the new, full-time employee during the training process (company size determines percentage).

Why OJT?

  • We will help you find eligible candidates for your open positions
  • We will reimburse you monthly for the costs associated with training this new employee

What is OJT?

  • Hands on training that you design
  • A payment to offset training costs
  • An opportunity to train employees according to your standard
  • An investment in your company

How does it work?

  • We match qualified candidates with approved job openings; On-the-Job Training CANNOT be funded if hiring has already taken place.
  • We work with you to design a training plan to meet your unique business needs

Interested in hiring an employee through the OJT Program?

  • The OhioMeansJobs Portage County staff would be happy to meet with you to explain the details of the program. Contact Helene Leightner, Program Officer, at (330) 297-3763.

Human Resource Assistance

  • Assistance placing job order on OhioMeansJobs.com
  • Networking new job opportunities through email blasts and social media to job seekers
  • Acceptance of applications and pre-screening for employer-specified qualifications

Free Job Posting

  • Position openings with area businesses can be posted directly by the business or with the assistance of staff at OhioMeansJobs Portage County. The jobs will be entered into the automated, state-wide labor exchange system and qualified applicants will be matched to the positions and notified about the opportunities. You may submit your job posting online or print the form to submit by fax or email. We will post it on OhioMeansJobs.com, make a flyer to post in our OMJ center for public viewing, notify our job seekers in an email blast, and forward it to our internal and external partnering agencies as well as take it to any job fairs we may be hosting during that time.
  • As an employer you can get registered on the Employer side of OhioMeansJobs.com.

Provision of Labor Market Information

Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP)

  • Assistance placing job order on OhioMeansJobs.com
  • SYEP provides youth ages 16-24 a meaningful work experience. Wages are paid at a 100% directly to the youth participant from a federally funded grant. Employers are encouraged to provide a work site where the youth can learn valuable skills.

Work Experience Program (WEP)

  • These individuals work without pay at a job-site in a public, private-non-profit, or private-for-profit organization in order to gain work experience and training to work towards self-sufficiency
  • Receive labor without payroll expenses, worker’s compensation fees or benefit costs
  • Employers write the job descriptions, work schedules, and make candidate selections
  • WEP participants are matched to the worksite prior to the interview
  • Utilizing Work Experience Program as a hiring tool to fill future vacant positions

Rapid Response (RR)

  • Services are funded by the U.S. Department of Labor under the Dislocated Worker Program of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998.

Basic Program Eligibility for Rapid Response

  • Employers with a potential of layoff or closure
  • Impacted workers who have received notice of potential layoff or closure
  • Impacted workers from layoff or closure

OhioMeansJobs | Portage County
Mandy Berardinelli, OMJ - Portage Workforce Administrator
253 South Chestnut St.
Ravenna, OH 44266
Phone: 330-296-2841
Fax: 330-296-7805