Business Service Resources for Employers
For information on how the NEWDB Business Services can support your business with NO COST services, contact Alicia Turley, Business Services Consultant, by email at alicia.turley@northeastworkforceboard.com.
Get started with our Application for Business Services.
Developing a Skilled Competitive Workforce
The public workforce system is a valuable resource to support human capital development of workers across the NEWDB service area and throughout the state of Oklahoma. The NEWDB has a team dedicated to serving Northeast area employers. The Business Service Team offers assistance with recruiting, hiring, training, and upskilling workers and connecting job seekers to employment opportunities with an emphasis on in-demand occupations.
Through our Oklahoma Works American Job Center sites located in Bartlesville, Claremore, Miami and Pryor, our team offers effective strategies for ensuring a skilled workforce pipeline ready to meet local business and industry demands. Top industry sectors include:
- Industrial,
- Transportation and Distribution,
- Mining and Extraction,
- Healthcare,
- STEM
These are Oklahoma's top critical occupations.
Educators Toolkit
The Educators Toolkit has been crafted to inform admissions teams, guidance counselors, and other educators regarding the array of resources accessible to qualified individuals. This comprehensive toolkit includes links to paid internships, scholarships for post-secondary education, and connections to Registered Apprenticeship programs.
Link to Educators Toolkit
Healthcare Roadmap
Navigating the system and discovering a path to a fulfilling career can often be challenging. However, in collaboration with the Northeast Oklahoma Healthcare Advisory Council, the NEWDB Business Team has designed this healthcare roadmap to assist individuals in charting a course toward meaningful and sought-after healthcare careers.
Click here for our Healthcare Career Roadmap
Learn more about our NO COST employer resources below.
Work Based Learning
Work-based learning (WBL) provides more opportunities for workers to earn income while gaining critical job skills. The positive impact to workers, employers, and the economy is substantial through effective work-based learning programs.
This umbrella term covers many services available to our customers.
Hiring Events
We would love to help you grow your workforce!
The Business Service Team will assist with recruitment through virtual and in-person hiring events and job fairs. Our team will help organize a single employer hiring event at any one of our American Job Centers, or onsite at your location. Our Business Services Team will work with you to promote your event on social media and through our partner network.
Interview space is also an available service at our American Job Centers!
Contact us to schedule your event!
Hot Jobs List
Hot Jobs is a collection of job openings in our 7-county area, focused around the American Job Center locations: Claremore, Bartlesville, Miami and Pryor. The list is disseminated biweekly to our partner organizations that work directly with job seekers.
Let us know about your company’s open positions to be added to the Hot Jobs List. The NEWDB strives to post new and relevant job openings.
Job Postings
Oklahoma Job Match
OKJobMatch.com is a self-service job posting tool that allows employers to post job openings and search resumes to identify talent. As a user, the employer will be able to save resumes of qualified candidates, receive resume match alerts, and promote their company profile. We encourage employers to keep in mind that everyone receiving unemployment benefits in Oklahoma is required to be registered on this site, and because this site is part of the workforce development system, there is no cost to employers or job seekers!
Skills Based Hiring
Skillful Talent Series
Hiring the right employee is now more important than ever. As the economy changes, our hiring practices should adapt and ensure we hire the best employee possible. A skills-based approach to hiring can increase retention by up to 65% and improve staff performance. This workshop will assist hiring manager in attracting the right candidates based on their skills and not proxy. SKILLFUL® Talent Series is a four-part workshop series designed for you to learn and use skills-based hiring and employment practices to hire and retain the right employees. Skillful Talent can be done in a group setting, 1-1, virtual or in person.
Layoff Assistance
Rapid Response
You can count on Northeast Workforce Development Board (NEWDB) to always be there for you when business is growing. If things slow down, NEWDB will continue to be there for you and your employees.
All services received in a lay off or lay off aversion provided by Northeast Workforce Development Board are completely confidential!
Northeast Workforce Development Board is your source for a number of services to help ease the transition for you and your affected workers. Northeast Workforce Development Board will meet with officials from your company and explain services and benefits available to your affected workers.
- How to file for unemployment insurance;
- What jobs are in demand in our market;
- Opportunities for re-training, including post-secondary education;
- Discuss workshops that are available such as job search, resume writing, and interview skills;
- An array of job search services available through our American Job Centers, and,
- Any other information that is relevant to helping your employees’ transition.
- To view the US Department of Labor's Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN), please click here.
Rapid Response Handbooks are available online. Click here for English.
Early notification is the most important factor in such an event. The more time the Northeast Workforce Development Board has to prepare, the better the services provided to your affected employees will be.
To set up an initial meeting/phone call with the Rapid Response team, please contact Alicia Turley, Business Services Consultant, by email at alicia.turley@northeastworkforceboard.com
Labor Market Information
Whatever data that interests your company, we can help. We can pull information on unemployment rates, wages, education, economic, and demographic data by county.
Let us know, what you would like to know!