WBLC Recruits & Attracts Mid-Career Job Seekers to Apply for The Program

Working with our WBLC Employment Service Provider partners and Manpower, through the news media, this website, and other channels – we encourage job seekers who fit the right profile – the right personal characteristics, aptitudes and attitudes for a Mold Maintenance Technician – to apply.

We provide detailed information on the program, the job, the equipment, and the process – so they have a good overview of the Mold Maintenance Technician role.

WBLC Staffing Partner (Manpower Group) Tests & Interviews Applicants

Manpower Group, our Staffing Partner, interviews and tests candidates per the WBLC Candidate Assessment Process.  They put the applicants through a rigorous testing and interviewing process:

• • • First, eligible applicants are initially assessed by completing a 60-minute online test consisting of 3 separate assessments. These tests reliably identify the Applicant’s competency level on those job-specific essential employability competencies that are directly related to success on the job.
    • Second, applicants that pass the first assessment are invited to an extensive, structured interview designed by WBLC and administered by Manpower that consists only of questions that focus directly on the competencies required to be successful in the job. The Applicant’s manual dexterity is also assessed.

Based on the objective data from these tests and structured interviews plus input from Manpower, WBLC decides which Applicants to select as Candidate Trainees to proceed to interviews with participating companies.

Manpower then matches the Candidate Trainees and the participating companies on the basis of location, transportation, work environment, etc. and makes the arrangements for your company to interview appropriate Candidate Trainees.

Your Company Interviews the Selected Candidates

Your company interviews the selected Candidate Trainees and shows them around your facilities.  You will receive a Summary of the results from the WBLC Assessment Process in advance so you can be prepared for a great interview /  discussion with your candidate(s).  You will also receive the WBLC Interview Guidelines, to help you confirm our findings about the Candidate Trainees you are interviewing.

The WBLC Assessment Process gives you very reliable assurance that you will be interviewing only Candidate Trainees who truly do have the required ‘aptitudes and attitudes’ to learn the technical requirements of the job and be productive, valuable employees.  This means that your ‘Interview to Hire Ratio’ will be dramatically lower than normal – no more than 2:1 or 3:1.

Your Company Hires One Or More Candidates

When you identify the Candidate Trainee(s) you want to hire and train as a Mold Maintenance Technician Trainee, you advise Manpower Group, make a job offer to the selected Candidate Trainee(s) and sign them up.

Upon hiring the Candidate Trainee, your company will begin to pay their wage/salary for the duration of the Program.  Usually, their first day of work is the start of the WBL program, but it can be earlier, at your discretion.

At the end of the program, we anticipate confidently that you will wish to continue to employ the successfully certified Mold Maintenance Technician [Level 1] in your company.

WBLC Will Provide e-Learning + Classroom Training

Trainees will acquire the basic theoretical knowledge and basic practical skills for their job through a combination of e/Learning (delivered online at your workplace) plus limited classroom training (2-3 weeks in total).

This basic learning is distributed throughout the first half of the program as the Trainee progresses

The basic theoretical knowledge and basic practical skills (competencies) acquired by trainees include all the following topics:

• Blueprint Reading
• Applied Math
• Measurement
• Materials
• Tools and Machines
• Overview of Molds
• Mold Processing
• Electrical, Hydraulic, Cooling and Pneumatic systems
• Manufacturing and Mold Terminology
• In-process Inspection
• Quality Practices
• Workplace Safety

Your Company Will Provide Approximately 26 weeks of On-the-Job Training

Your company will provide one or more Trainers – experienced, capable Mold Maintenance Technicians – to work with your Trainee(s).

The Trainer will guide and coach the Trainee(s) in acquiring all the competencies specified per the Technical Learning Outcomes for the job, and be responsible for making sure the Trainee(s) is(are) progressing towards mastering them all by the end of the on-the-job training period – or earlier.

WBLC Will Assess & Certify Successful Trainees –
Now Capable & Productive Employees

As Trainees progress towards the completion of their WBL program, WBLC will test and assess the Trainee’s mastery of the Technical Learning Outcomes for the job and, if acceptable, certify the Trainee(s) as a Mold Maintenance Technician [Level 1] based on:

• the Trainee’s successful passing of tests administered during the e-learning and classroom training
• the Trainee’s demonstrating to our WBLC Assessor that he / she can carry out mold maintenance operations as per work orders, drawings and process instructions
• the Trainee’s demonstration of knowledge of general manufacturing technical practices and procedures and knowledge of specific technical work practices regarding mold maintenance, via an on-line examination.

And at this point, your company will have added one or more great WBLC Certified Mold Maintenance Technician(s) [Level 1] who can continue to be productive, valuable, promotable employees who can advance their career with your company and contribute to your greater business success going forward.