Career Opportunity at COSTI

Duties:

• Conducts employer outreach and markets COSTI Employment Services employer services to meet client group targets of 50% very hard to place, 25% moderately difficult to place and 25% easy to place and to meet Canada Ontario Jobs Grant financial allocation targets.
• Researches prospective employers who are hiring, builds and maintains COSTI’s online Employer Database.
• Develops and maintains employer relationships with a broad sector of business including financial and technology sectors, hospitality, retail and labour sectors to support client job placement and new business opportunities to meet program targets and contract deliverables.
• Secures job postings and placements for our diverse client groups.
• Posts jobs on COSTI Job Posting site for Employment Consultants to access and send job vacancies to clients.
• Secures job postings, job-carving and job-sharing opportunities, and promotes training incentives and supports.
• Supports Employment Consultant client placements including hard to place clients with multiple barriers and furthest removed from the labour market.
• Shares and discusses job leads and employer requests with Employment Consultants.
• Utilizes telephone contacts, conferences, networking events, site visits and other methods to understand short term and long term labour market and business trends to respond to employers’ talent needs.
• Organizes virtual and onsite job fairs with employers to meet client caseload demands and performance targets.
• Consults, provides information and updates Employment Consultants with reporting requirements of TRIEC mentoring data base, CIS, EOIS/CAMS, CaseFLO, EDB and other web-based resources.
• Liaises with The Mentoring Partnership (TRIEC) and netWORKS Program colleagues to assist with corporate information sessions for mentor recruitment.
• Collaborates and communicates with Employment Consultants to ensure clear understanding of client needs prior to placement and liaises with employers to arrange work adjustment needs, particularly for hard-to-place clients who may have employment barriers, disabilities, etc.
• Assists with monitoring direct job placements, work placement/training agreements and provides complaint resolution service to employers and clients as required.
• Maintains e-based case notes and service entries throughout the client/employer relationship and compiles written reports as required.
• Acts as a resource to staff on the functionality/use of COSTI’s Employer Database.
• Recruits employers as mentors for clients (job candidates) to help them with career development and job retention, and informs employer of mentoring outcomes.
• Represents COSTI Employment Services at Brampton and Mississauga Employer Services Network, Peel Halton Workforce Development Group, Boards of Trade meetings, etc.
• Prepares and inputs weekly/monthly statistical and narrative reports about employer contacts into our Employer Database.
• Participates in full team meetings, shares employer/labour market information and contributes to continuous service quality improvements.

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