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Workforce Development for Employers: The OJT Program
BUILDING SKILLS TO MATCH YOUR JOB OPENING
BY DAVID LEVINE
© Courtesy of Business of Your Business
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Maybe you’re a jobseeker and are concerned you don’t have all the skills needed for a certain position. Or perhaps you’re a business owner who can’t find an employee who exactly meets all your job’s requirements. Both can take advantage
of a little-known New York State program called On the Job Training (OJT).
This program will reimburse the employer up to 50% of
the wages for a new employee while they are in the first six months of training for the job. Meet three employers who have made successful use of OJT.
BUSINESS OF YOUR BUSINESS
OJT “absorbs some of the
risk of it not working out” when training a new hire, says Wiley C. Harrison, president of Business of Your Business.
Harrison has two employees
on staff who were funded by OJT, helping his White Plains firm handle outsourced accounting, payroll, and tax work for nonprofits, religious institutions, and small businesses.
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