Workforce Development

• Pathway Connect helps the workforce development system focus on its key mission: helping people find jobs and identifying more employers who are hiring. We are working with state and local Workforce Development organizations to quickly and accurately identify job opportunities. Our clients are state organizations, Workforce Investment Boards and One-Stop Career Centers. Pathway Connect can enhance an existing job matching system or develop and implement a product to fit your area's needs. Our technology and job content enable Workforce Development professionals to:
  
        • Provide up to ten times more job content to their job seekers
        • Enhance and augment their existing job matching systems with larger geographical areas
        • Increase the breath of opportunities by leveraging job seekers' skills, not just job titles
        • Identify more Employers who are hiring

College Student/job seeker Features

• There is simply not enough time in the day to spend countless hours searching the same old job boards on behalf of your students. Imagine if one tool eliminated that hassle, allowing you to spend more time preparing your students for their careers. With the Student and Job Seeker Portal from Pathway Connect, your students play an active role in searching for potential careers. And with our skills-based search engine, finding the right job has never been easier.
  
        • Searching is focused on student skills and talents. No more searching exclusively through job titles, or using drop down menus, which narrow search results and provide less opportunity. Our skills-based search leads students to more jobs that meet their qualifications.
       • Students and Alumni can create/manage their own user accounts and run searches on their own.
       • Users can save searches and have them run automatically on a regular basis, sending new results to their e-mail address.
       • Resume tools allow students to upload resumes or create a new one in two simple steps.
       • Resume spell-check and resume writing tips make creating a resume easy.
  
  Employer Features
  
  The Student and Alumni portal helps you to strengthen existing employer relationships as well as build new ones. It allows employers to search the resume database for potential candidates using the Pathway Connect skills-based search system. And by using integrated tools, you can help direct students to preferred employers and jobs.
       • Employers can search the resume database using the skills and qualifications that are required for the position.
       • Our system can automatically e-mail an employer new resumes when they meet pre-defined search criteria.
       • Jobs from a certain employer can be prioritized in search results or you may flag certain jobs to alert users of the school's relationship with an employer.
  
  Staff and Administrative Features
  
  Staff and administrators can take advantage of specific features designed to manage accounts and the system.
  
        • Individual usage and tracking reports are available through an easy-to-use administration site.
        • Staff can attach notes to students resume records on actions taken and progress made with their job search.
        • When working with a specific employer, career services staff can establish an agent to e-mail them matching resumes as they enter the system.
  
  Implementation of the portal is fast and pain-free.
  
        • Set up a custom user registration process to gather specific information from users.
        • If you use individual accounts for your existing system, we can integrate our system into yours, without the need for new accounts.
        • Your portal will match the look and feel of your existing website.
        • Job content can be tailored to meet your school's programs and curriculum, to meet the specific needs of your students.
        • Add user surveys to your site through links or pop-up windows to gauge user satisfaction.
  

Rapid Response Solutions

• With Pathway Connect's Rapid Response Solutions, workforce development organizations can quickly provide displaced workers with the tools and access to jobs they need to find new employment. In doing so, state and local municipalities can also demonstrate their commitment to its employers and workers - a valuable public relations tool in today's competitive environment.
  
  Major corporate layoffs are a shock to any area's economy. You can turn adversity into opportunity with the following Rapid Response Solutions from Pathway Connect:
  
        • Access to jobs 24/7 by all job seekers in an unassisted manner.
  
        • Targeted job content and spider creation. We work with local government staff in conjunction with company personnel to develop a direct solution set to provide job content that addresses the dislocated workers. The result is customized job content for the displaced workers.
  
       • Pathway Transitions Assessment.
  
       • Resume Tools - designed to help job seekers.
  
        • Resume Creator generates a resume in two easy steps using our customized resume tool.
  
        • Resume Blasting sends a resume to thousands of recruiters with the single click of a mouse.
  
  Rapid Response Exit Packages include job posting details applicable to the displaced workers' position. The package also includes supplementary information about potential employers (contact information, profile, etc.) that enables a job seeker to begin exploring new job opportunities within minutes of being notified of layoffs.