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Job Readiness Assessment
2019-05-30 11:00:38
What does it mean to be “job ready”?
A worker’s job readiness can be thought of as the combination of three areas for professional and personal development: soft skills, hard skills, and personal readiness.
Read learning guide >2019-05-30 11:00:48
Job Readiness Assessment
How to structure a job readiness assessment procedure to determine workers’ professional and personal readiness to transition to competitive employment.
Read learning guide >2019-06-17 09:05:27
Job Readiness Assessment Tool
This Job Readiness Assessment Tool helps determine whether an employee is ready to move into competitive employment.
Use tool >Exit Pathways & Retention
2016-09-19 13:38:42
Employee Retention Overview
Retention is top of mind for employers and service practitioners. What are the biggest challenges for social enterprises and their employees?
Read Full article >2016-09-19 13:13:37
Effective Employee Retention Strategies
MDRC is a research firm focused on building knowledge to improve social policy. Learn about some research they have conducted on low-wage workers and effective employee retention services.
Read Full article >2016-09-19 13:17:08
Employee Retention: Employer and Provider Partnerships
As part of the LA:RISE program, LIFT is a partner that provides key employee retention services: job coaching, service referrals, financial coaching, and financial incentives.
Read Full article >2017-06-12 14:34:52
Retention Bonuses and Earnings Supplements
Social enterprises can seek to stabilize their workers by helping them secure additional income and reduce costs, before and/or during social enterprise employment.
Read Full article >2019-05-21 12:24:51
Retention Policies for Employee Supports Programming
In this learning guide, we consider the options and considerations for seven common types of retention supports.
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Employment Model & Program Design
2019-05-15 07:45:59
Factors Influencing Program Design
As part of the employee support design process, it is necessary to consider the various factors influencing program design.
Read learning guide >2019-05-23 08:26:06
Employment Status Models
Decisions regarding duration and hours of employment for social enterprise workers from the target population.
Read learning guide >2019-05-02 10:14:27
Common Target Populations Served By Employment Social Enterprise
Employment social enterprises serve disadvantaged populations that face at least one serious barrier to employment.
Read Full article >Employee Supports
2019-02-19 10:10:53
Overview of Employee Supports
Employee supports are the additional supports and services that help workers secure, succeed, and advance in employment and get on the pathway to self-sufficiency.
Read learning guide >2019-04-26 08:53:40
Designing an Employee Supports Program: Goals and Strategies
Designing an employee supports program is a multi-phase process. In this learning guide, we cover the first two steps: defining your goals and strategies and configuring your support offerings.
Read learning guide >2019-05-15 12:54:53
Designing an Employee Supports Program: Structure and Policies
How to design your employee supports program so that the structure and policies align with and support key goals and strategies.
Read learning guide >2017-12-18 13:08:45
Training Frontline Supervisors
Social enterprises hold dual goals related to business and programmatic outcomes, and effective supervision impacts both. Here we share some initial takeaways from surveys and focus groups of social enterprise about the role of frontline supervisors.
Read Full article >2019-05-21 10:55:34
Employee Supports Program Policies
As part of your employee supports program design process, you will want to think about the specific policies related to the delivery of your employee supports program.
Read Full article >2019-11-07 14:41:49
Financial Employee Supports
2018-10-16 12:32:05
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Why your social enterprise should encourage your employees to file their taxes.
Read learning guide >2018-11-06 09:49:05
Earned Income Tax Credits
Learn what the Earned Income Tax Credit is, who might be eligible, and how it can help your social enterprise employees.
Read learning guide >2018-12-16 16:23:49
How to help your employees file their taxes
You can leverage your position as a trusted employer to encourage your employees to file their taxes, through outreach and education throughout the year and sharing resources to assist them in filing taxes.
Read learning guide >2018-12-16 22:39:54
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Use this tool to generate a custom flyer to promote the filing of taxes by your employees.
Use tool >2017-04-24 17:00:57
The need for financial employee supports
Employees’ financial wellness is directly tied to productivity, attendance, and performance. How should social enterprises incorporate financial wellness into their employee support offerings?
Read Full article >2017-05-11 12:54:29
Incentivized Savings
Social enterprise can encourage and reward saving by its workers by adding additional funds to the savings of workers who achieve designated savings benchmarks or demonstrate consistent savings behavior.
Read Full article >Profiles
2017-04-24 16:28:53
Juma’s Financial Wellness Program
Learn about Juma’s financial wellness program in this interview with David Miller, Savings Program Manager for Juma.
Read Full article >2016-05-23 14:14:15
Using improvisational comedy exercises for team building and soft skill development.
Read Full article >2016-09-19 13:32:58
“Informed Benefits”
Hot Chicken Takeover, a community restaurant in Columbus, shares their approach to employee recruitment and retention, and shares some best practices and lessons learned along the way.
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