Recruitment and Training

One-Stop Career Centers - California's One-Stop Career Centers help businesses with recruiting employees, from help with drafting duty statements and job announcements to screening applicants. They can also connect businesses with training resources for employees. Since the centers also help job seekers with job training and placement services, they are an effective connection between businesses and the local workforce.
Employment Training Panel - Assists eligible California employers to solidify their competitive edge by providing funds to off-set the cost of job skills training necessary to become a high-performance workplace.
Job Recruitment and Referral Services - Link to job banks to post job announcements and review resumes, including "CalJOBS," California's job bank, and America's Job Bank.
The One-Stop Career Centers also provide links to federal, state and local job bank services.
Workforce Community - Obtain information about employment of disabled persons, veteran’s services, welfare-to-work and other work training programs and services.

More Information on the Workforce Investment Act

Learn more about the Federal Workforce Investment Act (WIA), which funds a number of employment and training programs in California, including programs and services provided by the One-Stop Career Centers.

Profile of California's Workforce

Demographics

Connect to the Department of Finance's Demographic Research Unit to find research papers and statistics about California's population.

California's Labor Market

Information offers an abundance of information to support business decisions: View Local Area Profiles with up-to-date employment and occupation information and compare those data between areas. Scan current news in the California Regional Bulletin. Use dynamic tools to create custom data tables by occupations or industries. Find the range of occupational wages paid by employers in local areas. Track occupational and industry growth trends for the state and regions. Get detailed industry employment and payroll data by county.

Taxes and Accounting

Taxes

Employer W-2 Filing Instructions & Information
IRS Small Business/Self Employed - tax forms and publications applicable to small businesses.
Tax Rates for all 50 States - from the Federation of Tax Administrators.
Tax/Revenue Departments for each State
Small Business Taxes & Management
Quicken.com - Small Business Guide - Includes information on how to legally minimize your business taxes.
Internal Revenue Service - Tax information for small businesses.
US Social Security Administration - Link for employers

Accounting

Accounting Software

Accounting Help - Find out how to keep track of your finances using the standard accounting tools, balance sheet, income statement, depreciation and amortization. From Business Town.
Web-Based Accounting Services
Cash-Based vs. Accrual-Based Accounting - an explanation.
Understanding Financial Statements
SBA Financing: Financial Statemtents - SBA guide to understanding common financial statements
Cash Flow and Accounting - step by step of what is expected when starting a new business

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Funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration and the University of California, Merced. All opinions, conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the SBA. The Central California Small Business Development Center is funded in part through a subcontract between the California State University, the Office of Economic Development and the University of California, Merced under the current cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration.