The purpose of the ES program is to bring together individuals looking for employment and employers looking for job seekers

The Technical College System of Georgia received a $19.05 million formula grant from the Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration under the Employment Service/Wagner-Peyser Funded Activities program (CFDA 17.207), effective July 1, 2025 through September 30, 2028. This award supports universal access employment services designed to connect job seekers with employment opportunities and assist employers in identifying qualified candidates. Core services include job search assistance, career counseling and guidance, skills assessments, labor market information dissemination, job referrals and placement assistance, and recruitment support to employers. The program explicitly excludes direct training services, focusing instead on labor exchange mechanisms and career guidance to facilitate rapid workforce reentry and efficient candidate-employer matching through American Job Centers and local workforce development partnerships.

TCSG may subaward portions of this funding to conduct labor market information research and provide direct services such as career interest assessments, career guidance, job search workshops, and referrals to employment or training opportunities. As a universal access program with no eligibility restrictions, services are available to all individuals seeking employment assistance, with priority extended to veterans and other covered populations. The award supports TCSG's role as a key state workforce system entity delivering comprehensive employment services across Georgia's 22 technical colleges and 88 campuses in collaboration with local workforce development boards and community-based partners.

Activities

The ES is a universal access program that provides services to all individuals who need services. Allowable services include assessments of career interests, career guidance when appropriate, job search workshops, and referral to jobs or training as appropriate. Services offered to employers include referral of job seekers to job openings matching job requirements with applicants experience, skills and other attributes helping with special recruitment needs assisting employers with hard-to-fill job orders assisting with job restructuring and helping employers assist laid-off workers. Training services are not provided and not allowable under ES program.

Expected outcomes

The ES program outcomes are to ensure that individuals are able to access and receive the services they need to overcome barriers to employment and reenter the workforce system as quickly as possible.

Intended beneficiaries

This is a universal access program that is available to all individuals.

Subrecipient activities

The grantees may subaward funds to conduct LMI research as well as the provision of specific services such as assessments of career interests, career guidance, job search workshops, referral to jobs or training as appropriate, and others.