JOB TRAINING

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:

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

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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 3 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

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