LED Fast Start
Recognized for its innovation, effectiveness, flexibility and efficiency, LED FastStart® is the nation’s best state workforce training program, according to
Business Facilities magazine.
FastStart provides customized employee recruitment, screening, training development and training delivery for eligible, new or expanding companies — all at no cost.
Based on a company’s immediate and long-term workforce needs, the FastStart team crafts unique programs that ensure high-quality, flexible workers are prepared on
day one and beyond.
The FastStart team includes dozens of experienced professionals from a range of businesses — manufacturing to corporate headquarters, digital media to customer support centers and R&D. FastStart has designed and delivered comprehensive workforce solutions for a wide variety of Fortune 500 companies, as well as high-tech companies funded by leading venture capital firms.
FastStart Experience Includes:
The FastStart team includes dozens of experienced professionals from a range of businesses — manufacturing to corporate headquarters, digital media to customer support centers and R&D. FastStart has designed and delivered comprehensive workforce solutions for a wide variety of Fortune 500 companies, as well as high-tech companies funded by leading venture capital firms.
FastStart Experience Includes:
- 2D/3D Graphics Development
- Curriculum Design
- Instructional Design
- Leadership Instruction
- Organization Development
- Photography
- Project Management
- Recruitment and Selection Tactics
- Social Media Campaign Implementation
- Technical Instruction
- Videography
- Web Design
Workforce Investment Act
- Designed to stimulate the employment, training and retraining of unemployed and economically disadvantaged and dislocated workers through training subsidies and employer incentives
- Training services may include basic skills training, cooperate education, customized training combining on-the-job training and industry-specific training, etc.
- Program pays for tuition, books, and training supplies
- Locally administered by the City of Shreveport’s Department of Community Development (inside the city limits) and the Coordinating and Development Corporation (outside of Shreveport)
Incumbent Worker Training Program
- Program designed to benefit business and industry by assisting in the skill development of existing employees, and increasing employee productivity and the growth of the company
- Company eligibility requirements:
- Business must have operated in Louisiana and contributed to the state’s unemployment insurance system for at least three years
- Each employer or consortium of employers must train at least 15 employees
- Small employers encouraged to participate
- Preference is given to employers who utilize public training providers, donate equipment, and supplies to the program, and participate in the state’s Welfare to Work Initiative
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Louisiana Workforce Development & Training Program
- Available to new and expanding companies, as well as firms implementing new and expanding technologies
- Program offers pre-employment and worker-upgrade training
- Administered by Louisiana Economic Development
Strategies to Empower People (STEP)
- Goal is to provide opportunities for work-eligible families of FITAP to receive job training, employment and supportive services to enable them to become self-sufficient
- Result of the Personal Responsibility and Universal Engagement Act of 2003 passed by the Louisiana Legislature