EDUCATION-19191 - USA (Mississippi) - Talent Attraction, Training Navigation, and Employment Placement Services - Deadline November 21,2026

Vendor needs to provide talent attraction, training navigation, and employment placement services to the government authority located in Mississippi.1. Employer demand intake and validation:– Establish a repeatable intake process for participating employers, occupations, locations, hiring volumes, wages, shifts, qualifications, timelines, and hiring standards.– Confirm that positions are active, funded, and available before public funds are used to recruit or train candidates.– Document employer commitments regarding interviews, candidate disposition data, and timely feedback.2. Targeted marketing and candidate attraction:– Develop employer–, occupation–, geography–, and audience–specific recruitment strategies.– Plan, purchase, manage, and optimize appropriate job boards, paid social, paid search, programmatic media, digital audio, streaming/CTV, community outreach, and niche channels.– Create state–approved, white–labelled campaign messaging, creative assets, landing experiences, and employer value propositions.3. Assessment, segmentation, and routing:– Assess occupational interest, baseline qualifications, skills, work history, availability, location, transportation, training readiness, and other state–approved factors.– Categorize participants at minimum as job–ready, near–ready, training–ready, needs additional support, or not currently eligible, with documented routing logic.– Match job–ready candidates promptly to appropriate openings and employers.4. Training navigation and enrolment:– Maintain current information regarding agency–approved programs, community–college offerings, registered apprenticeships, eligible providers, schedules, prerequisites, costs, financial supports, and expected employment outcomes.– Support enrolment, eligibility screening, and warm handoffs to approved providers.5. Job matching, application, and employer handoff:– Match participants to active openings using qualifications, preferences, location, schedule, wage, training status, and other job–relevant criteria.– Provide employers with qualified candidate referrals in an agreed format and track employer review, interview, offer, acceptance, rejection, and hire decisions.