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Is your business growing? Need help locating talent? These organizations can help you locate and develop talent here in the Columbus Region. Find partners from career centers to local colleges and universities, plus a wide variety of other organizations that provide new pipelines for finding your next employee.
About Us: Learn the skills you need for a rewarding career while earning a paycheck, with no student loan debt. Apprentice Ohio has apprenticeship programs in all major trades.
Contact: Alex Cotton, Franklin & Delaware County
Email: alexander.cotton@jfs.ohio.gov
Website: https://apprentice.ohio.gov
About Us: Columbus State Career Services can help to find your next generation of talent. We've worked with leading companies like Amazon, Nationwide and Honda to develop customized programs and mentorships. Job post listings are provided as a service to employers wishing to make opportunities available to current students and Columbus State graduates. Employers can also post
paid internship opportunities, schedule on-campus recruiting, and register for career fairs via Handshake, Columbus State’s online career management system.
Contact: Career Services
Email: careerservices@cscc.edu
Website: https://www.cscc.edu/services/careers/employers-community.shtml
About Us: The Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) at Columbus State is a full-service solutions provider for Central Ohio manufacturers. The MEP at Columbus State is your connection to the talent your company needs today and in the future. Our talent experts evaluate and strengthen your hiring processes, from job profile creation to prospective candidate assessment. Work with us to ensure your systems are yielding the talent needed for the challenges of today and the opportunities of tomorrow.
Contact: MEP at Columbus State
Email: MEP@CSCC.EDU
Phone: 614-287-5000
Website: https://www.MEP.CSCC.EDU
About Us: The Office of Talent Strategy at Columbus State Community College works as a front door on several earn and learn programs that local companies use as a method to obtain talent.
Contact: David Cofer, Director Partnerships & Programs
Email: dcofer@cscc.edu
Website: https://www.cscc.edu/admissions/events/experiential-learning.shtml
About Us: Dawson is a full-service workforce solutions company that offers a wide variety of services to employers with a lot of different needs, and to job seekers with many different skill sets and backgrounds. Services include job placements, HR management solutions and community workforce programs
Contact: Chelsea Hinton
Email: chinton@dawsoncareers.com
Website: https://www.dawsoncareers.com
About Us: DACC provides unique elective courses to high school students in Delaware County and surrounding areas. We work in partnership with your high school to enhance your academic education with hands-on instruction that is focused on each individual student's area of interest. Adult students can expand their career options at DACC through advanced training that can increase their employability or give them a fresh start on a new career.
Contact: Chad Williams
Email: williamsc@delawareareacc.org
Website: https://www.delawareareacc.org
About Us: Providing a high-quality, for-the-real-world education to ambitious learners and working adults like you so you can reach your personal and professional goals and enrich the world.
Contact: Whitney Iles
Email: whitney.iles@franklin.edu
Website: https://www.franklin.edu
About Us: Not only do we offer education for multiple industries — real estate, appraisal, home inspection, and mortgage — but we also provide courses that fit every career stage. Plus, we supply students with immediate opportunities for job placement, networking and industry connections.
Contact: Teri Tope
Email: ttope@hondros.com
Website: https://www.hondros.com
About Us: The online associate degree of applied business in business management program prepares the learner with the skills and understanding of many aspects of the business environment including critical thinking, business management and sales.
Contact: Aleta Thomas
Email: athomas@hondros.com
Website: https://hondroscollegeofbusiness.com
About Us: NCUS Tec is an affiliate of National Center for Urban Solutions. NCUS Tec offers a wide variety of courses and certificates to upskill your employees. NCUS Tec can also provide services to help hire trained employees.
Contact: Perry Gregory, SVP
Email: pgregory@ncusolutions.org
Website: https://www.ncustec.org
About Us: The Ohio Department of Education is a diverse team of passionate, education-focused professionals dedicated to fulfilling the vision established in Each Child, Our Future, Ohio’s strategic plan for education. The vision is, “In Ohio, each child is challenged to discover and learn, prepared to pursue a fulfilling post-high school path and empowered to become a resilient, lifelong learner who contributes to society.”
Contact: Cassandra Palsgrove, Director of the Office of Graduate Success
Email: Cassandra.palsgrove@education.ohio.gov
Website: https://education.ohio.gov
About Us: SuccessBound celebrates and promotes useful and effective business-school relationships that create opportunities for Ohio’s students to have workplace experiences and earn credentials, engage with mentors and learn skills and technical competencies they can use in their career journeys.
Contact: Carrie Scheiderer, Central Region Tech Prep Coordinator
Email: cscheide@cotc.edu
Website: https://www.successbound.ohio.gov/Businesses
About Us: Ohio MEP helps Ohio's small and medium-sized manufacturers to increase sales, create jobs and generate cost savings through technological innovation, workforce training and improved management practices.
Contact: Aaron Partick
Email: aaron.patrick@development.ohio.gov
Website: https://development.ohio.gov/home
About Us: Find a job, learn career skills, meet the requirements of your government benefits and more on OhioMeansJobs.com
Contact: Carolyn Stout
Email: omjdelaware@jfs.ohio.gov
Website: https://delcoomj.co.delaware.oh.us
About Us: Find a job, learn career skills, meet the requirements of your government benefits and more on OhioMeansJobs.com
Contact: Brandon Bush
Email: Businessservices@omjcfc.org
Working Website: https://www.omjcfc.org
About Us: OWD provides information and tools to Ohio's workforce system. We interpret federal and state law and serve as primary policy-makers for workforce programs. The office administers federal programs that create a comprehensive statewide workforce system of employment services; hiring support and tax credits; and labor market information to employers and workers.
Contact: Kelly Carey
Email: kelly.carey@jfs.ohio.gov
Website: https://jfs.ohio.gov/owd/index.stm
About Us: OWD provides information and tools to Ohio's workforce system. We interpret federal and state law and serve as primary policy-makers for workforce programs. The office administers federal programs that create a comprehensive statewide workforce system of employment services; hiring support and tax credits; and labor market information to employers and workers.
Contact: Julie Laird, Account Executive
Email: julie.laird@jfs.ohio.gov
Website: https://jfs.ohio.gov/owd/index.stm
About Us: Buckeye Careers is a university-wide initiative designed to support students throughout their professional development, with a focus on connecting them with local, national and global organizations.
Contact: Jennifer Chilman, Assistant Director for Employer Engagement & Internships
Email: chilman.1@osu.edu
Website: https://careers.osu.edu/employers
About Us: Working with local and state partners, we serve as the business location resource for companies across central Ohio and around the world as they grow, innovate and compete within the global economy
Contact: David White, Director of Workforce and Talent Solutions
Email: dw@columbusregion.com
Website: https://columbusregion.com/workforce-strategy
About Us: Otterbein offers a choice of more than 70 majors and 44 minors, as well as individualized courses of study. We also offer five graduate programs in business administration, education and nursing, including our doctor of nursing practice degree.
Contact: Erin Bender
Email: ebender@otterbein.edu
Website: https://www.otterbein.edu
About Us: The Point is over 61,000 square feet of learning labs and maker space, think tanks, networking facilities, event space and designated co-working areas and offices. Connect with passionate do-ers to build your dreams and shape the future of education and innovation, today.
Contact: Erin Bender
Email: ebender@otterbein.edu
Website: https://www.otterbein.edu/thepoint
About Us: Turnberry provides business, digital, and talent solutions to help you solve your most critical problems, large and small. From a single project manager or software engineer to complete turn-key solutions or managed services, we listen to your challenges and provide you what you need: no more and no less.
Contact: Jen Dunlap
Email: jennifer.dunlap@turnberrysolutions.com
Website: https://www.turnberrysolutions.com/
About Us: WARM offers food assistance and supportive coaching for residents in the Westerville School District (encompassing all or part of 43081, 43082, 43229. 43231, 43230). We also provide a robust employment assistance/readiness initiative that helps the unemployed or underemployed throughout the northeast quadrant of Franklin County. We do this with compassionate, short-term assistance, and educational services to encourage individuals to achieve a self-sufficient move towards prosperity. Many participants are in turn helping organizations address their workforce demands.
Contact: David Crago
Email: David@warmwesterville.org
Website: https://warmwesterville.org
About Us: Career pathways give students an opportunity to learn more about their interests before committing to a particular career path after high school. They also allow students to earn an industry credential that may lead to the start of a career while completing a degree program.
Contact: Matthew Misener
Email: misenerm@westerville.k12.oh.us
Website: https://www.westerville.k12.oh.us
About Us: Partner with area businesses and organizations on workforce needs so that people are fully employed at their ability and potential in the thriving central Ohio economy
Contact: Courtney Thraen, Associate Director of Business Services
Email: cthraen@wdbco.org
Website: https://www.wdbco.org/