Labor Market
The Region 2 WDB plays an active role in the business community by providing businesses and employers with career development professionals and services designed to improve your employees’ skills and your company’s profitability.
Career Listings
Region 2 WDB works alongside many employment organizations to provide job seekers with opportunities to achieve employment and grow in their careers. Many of these organizations provide online job listings and resources to get started and achieve growth. Visit:
Speakers Bureau
The Region 2 WDB Speakers Bureau allows individuals from businesses and local employers throughout our region to educate our youth about the career opportunities in the business world and prepare them to be the productive employees on which your future businesses depend.
If you are interested in becoming a speaker on one of the topics above or have a topic of your own you would like to be listed, please contact the Region 2 WDB at [email protected] or call 1-866-262-JOBS (1-866-262-5348).
Job Fair
Throughout the year, the Region 2 WDB hosts and participates in numerous Job Fairs in our seven county region. Hundreds of employers and businesses participate by setting up booths at the events and screening potential employees.
For more information on how your company can be part of a job fair, or for schedule information, call us toll-free at 1-800-252-JOBS (1-866-262-5348).
Informational Meeting
When your company is faced with the reality of a layoff of 50 or less individuals, the Learning Center will bring in career professionals from organizations like unemployment, the WORKFORCE West Virginia Center, Children’s Health Insurance and Credit Counseling to give your employees the information they need to stay on the right track during transitional times.
If you need to talk to one of our career professionals regarding an informational meeting, please call us at 1-800-252-JOBS (1-866-262-5348) or visit the Contact/Locations page on this website to find the Learning Center nearest you.
Training
The Region 2 WDB plays an active role in the business community by providing businesses and employers with career development professionals and services designed to improve your employees’ skills and your company’s profitability.
WorkKeys
The WorkKeys Assessment is a very valuable tool for any company. It allows you to evaluate the skills of your employees and potential employees. From that evaluation, we can help you identify the areas that can improve your overall productivity, efficiency and profitability.
The results will provide you with specific areas we can help your employees increase their basic skill levels in areas critical for successful performance on the job.
Skill Certification
The Region 2 WORKFORCE Development Board has partnered with the WORKFORCE West Virginia Centers, Learning Centers and local Chambers of Commerce to provide job seekers and employers with a comprehensive skills enhancement system that allows them or their employees to become “Skills Certified” in the basic skills needed for a specific occupation or for employment.
Through WorkKeys, a job seeker or employee can participate in training that allows them to demonstrate to their employer or potential employer that they possess the basic skills they need to excel at their career! To learn more, please call us at 304-508-2696 or 1-800-252-JOBS (1-866-262-5348) or email us at [email protected].
Job Readiness
The WORKFORCE West Virginia Center and Learning Centers assist employers and job seekers in many areas. Just one of those services is the job readiness training that is provided.
Through the Region 2 Excel System, individuals are trained to become productive employees during a six-week, comprehensive program course that teaches skills such as applied math, reading for information, locating information and overall job skills.
To find out more, please call us at 1-800-252-JOBS (1-866-262-5348) or email us today.
Entrepreneurship
The Region 2 WDB has created partnerships throughout the seven-county area that allow enterprising individuals to learn skills they need to operate their own business. The entrepreneurial training that is available allows individuals to learn about all the requirements of operating their own business including:
- Registration requirements
- Business planning
- Employee needs
- Business growth
- Marketing assistance
- Tax issues
One of the partners of the Region 2 WORKFORCE Development Board that is associated with entrepreneurial training is Unlimited Futures, Inc. To learn more, please call us at 1-800-252-JOBS (1-866-262-5348) or email us today.
