Employee Training Programs
Iowa has one of the most productive and educated workforces in the nation. To help Iowa companies maintain their competitive edge, the Iowa Department of Economic Development will help you develop a workforce and training program to meet the specific needs of your company.
Iowa’s Employee Training Programs [PDF: 129k] have evolved from a business expansion incentive tool into a comprehensive, targeted human resource tool available to all Iowa businesses.
Iowa’s industry-driven workforce development programs and services enhance Iowa’s economic well-being by increasing the skills of an already productive Iowa workforce. Iowans, with their unmatched work ethic, are acquiring skills that will improve the competitiveness of Iowa businesses.
By leveraging training resources, filling funding gaps in human resource development initiatives, and sponsoring business consortia that address common employment training needs, the skills of Iowa’s workers are enhanced, allowing its industries to grow.
Helping Improve IOWA’s skilled, productive workforce!
- Accelerated Career Education Program — Assists Iowa's community colleges in establishing/expanding programs that train individuals in the occupations most needed by Iowa businesses.
- Apprenticeship Program — Funds projects that increase the skills of workers through a combination of classroom and on-the-job training.
- Community College Business Network Training Program — Provides funding assistance to two or more businesses participating in training programs based in one or more community colleges.
- Community College Consortium — Provides funding assistance for community college-sponsored employee training projects in which two or more businesses participate.
- Information Technology Training Program — With the increasing difficulties in finding workers with the right skills, it is important for information technology firms to develop, retool, refine, and broaden the skills of their existing workers. The rapidly changing and evolving nature of the industry requires a more flexible response than is currently provided under traditional job training programs. This program provides funds for IT firms in Iowa to upgrade the technical skills of existing high-level employees.
- Iowa Industrial New Jobs Training Program (260E) — Provides no-cost or reduced-cost job-training services to new employees of eligible businesses through Iowa's community college system.
- Iowa Jobs Training Program (260F) — Provides job training services to current employees of eligible businesses that are located in Iowa.
- Iowa Student Internship Program — The Iowa Student Internship Program links college students from Iowa schools to internship opportunities in small and medium sized firms in the biosciences, advanced manufacturing and information technology industries with the goal of transitioning the interns to full-time employment in the state upon graduation.
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