The training components were developed by Wildcat in collaboration with specific private industry partners and are specifically designed around a group of related occupations and are adjusted periodically based upon demand. Phase I of the program includes alternating weeks of subsidized employment and pre-employment training, skills development, and job search. The work experience component is vital because it functions to reinforce the job readiness training by allowing participants the practical application of learned skills.
Participants receive the federal minimum wage for all hours worked.
Work assignments are provided at work sites that permit work habits development in such areas as fiscal, personnel, program planning, operations, marketing, and systems. Maintaining document files and filing correspondence and other documents. All computer and software programs are compatible with the systems used by our private industry partners. Participants are taught computer skills in our IBM Training Center. Basic education competencies in business English and math, reading, writing, and communications skills will be fully integrated throughout the training period so that they are mutually reinforcing.