Job Posting Assistance

We can help you post your job openings on WorkinTexas.com. Your Job Postings offer job matching and access to job seekers throughout the Workforce Solutions Job Seeker System and the general public.

Labor Market Information

Are you losing staff and trying to explore your options? Our Business Services personnel will provide local labor market information regarding the current job market, including help determining prevailing wages for your area. 

On-the-Job Training

Can’t find the perfect candidate but are willing to train the person you hire? Before hiring an individual, let us determine if the individual is WIOA eligible. Your company could be reimbursed 50-75% of the potential new hire's wages during their training period if eligible. 

Fidelity Bonding

Are you concerned about your new hire and their background? TWC and Workforce Solutions East Texas offer free fidelity bonding services to reduce employers’ concerns about hiring at-risk job applicants who cannot be bonded through other sources. TWC’s procured insurance group issues a policy protecting the employer against employee acts of dishonesty, such as larceny, embezzlement, and theft. The bonding is free for six months.  After six months, bonding becomes the employer’s responsibility. Bonding is usually issued for $5,000 with no deductible. 

Work Opportunity Tax Credit

The Work Opportunity Tax Credit is a federal income tax benefit administered by the U.S. Department of Labor for employers who hire individuals from specified target populations. WOTC reduces a business’s federal tax liability ($2,400 to $9,600), serving as an incentive to select job candidates who may be disadvantaged in their efforts to find employment. This can include veterans, individuals on state benefits, ex-felons, individuals with disabilities, SSI recipients, and Summer Earn And Learn participants.

Childcare Services

The Childcare Services program provides childcare assistance (financial aid) to families who meet income requirements and work/school minimum hours. The program promotes long-term self-sufficiency by enabling parents to work or attend educational activities.

Vocational Rehabilitation Services

Vocational Rehabilitation Services provides businesses with awareness, education, hiring, and retention services for hiring people with disabilities. VR can also assist businesses that have employees with disabilities to develop services and accommodations. This may even include providing employees with adaptive aids to help them maintain their employment and productivity.

Incumbent Worker Training

Incumbent workers are defined as employees who have been employed six months before the training. This program enables businesses to strengthen their ability to compete in the job market by training incumbent employees in areas they determine are needed. The purpose is to prepare employees to better perform their jobs to avoid layoffs. 

Skills Development Fund

The Skills Development Fund program assists businesses and trade unions by financing the design and implementation of customized job-training projects. This fund successfully merges business needs and local customized training opportunities into a winning formula to increase the skills levels and wages of the Texas workforce. Success is achieved through collaboration among businesses, the public community, technical colleges, Workforce Solutions East Texas and economic development partners. Inquire at skills@twc.texas.gov.

Skills for Small Businesses

Provides funds for use by small businesses (fewer than 100 employees) to purchase training for their full-time employees. This may be up to $1,800 per new hire and up to $900 per incumbent worker.    All training must be provided by a public community or technical college or the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service. No third-party vendor training is allowed. Inquire at SkillsforSmallBusiness@twc.texas.gov.

Shared Work Program

The Shared Work program provides Texas employers with an alternative to layoffs. TWC developed this voluntary program to assist Texas employers and employees in withstanding a slowdown in business. Shared Work allows employers to:

• Supplement their employees’ wages lost because of reduced work hours with partial unemployment benefits.
• Reduce normal weekly work hours for employees in an affected unit by at least 10 percent, but not more than 40 percent and the reduction must affect at least 10 percent of the employees in that unit.

Inquire at ui.sharedwork@twc.texas.gov.