Tuesday, May 31, 2011

These Fort Worth high school graduates are ready for the workforce

Fort Worth Star Telegram
For young people starting out in a job, it can be tough at first to make the transition from student to employee, said Jide Obasa, Workforce Solutions for Tarrant County's youth services manager. The youth work centers provide job leads and referrals ...

Thursday, May 26, 2011

MIssouri Career Center Deploys Mobile Unit

News-Leader.com
11:00 pm Archie's, 1817 E. Grand St., 864-4109: Blues Down Under Concert Series Girls with Guitars, 9 pm- 11:00 pm The Missouri Career Center's Mobile Unit was deployed to Joplin, Wednesday to assist the Workforce Investment Board of Southwest ...

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Sonoma County BEST program to get $300000 from county

North Bay Business Journal
“What I think BEST will complement efforts between the Economic Development Board and the Workforce Investment Board — getting individual back into jobs created by the BEST program,” Supervisor McGuire said. Supervisor Valerie Brown voted against the ...

Monday, May 23, 2011

Maryland looks to reintroduce apprenticeships

Baltimore Sun
Such on-the-job training was once the dominant method of producing skilled workers — from artisans to attorneys to physicians. But its role in the United States shrank as industrialization revolutionized work and the importance of universities grew. ...

WCCC grads ready to drill

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Twelve active National Guardsmen completed the three-week program Friday in which they received training in the burgeoning Marcellus shale drilling industry. WCCC is a hub for Marcellus ShaleNET, a $4.9 million community-based, job training grant from ...

Barre, Burlington Youth Build programs to receive $1M for youth job training

vtdigger.org
The grant is part of nearly $76 million in funding for YouthBuild programs that provide training to young people throughout the nation. The over $1 million in funding to Vermont will go to ReSOURCE, a non-profit located in Burlington, to implement a ...

Workforce agency launches reorganization amid budget cuts

Ocala
Part of the restructuring calls for Workforce to take over management of the One-Stop system, which until now has been contracted to the Withlacoochee Workforce Development Authority. Skinner said he hopes to hire front-line employees who work with the ...

PET Project announces annual grant

Salina Journal
The Greater Salina Community Foundation's 2011 PET Project grant, worth $5000, as been awarded to Project SEARCH Salina — a program that provides on-the-job training, job coaching and academic training with local employers for young adults with ...

2 W.Va. agencies awarded $1.7M in grants for job-training programs for younger ...

The Republic
The US Department of Labor has awarded $1.7 million in grants to two West Virginia agencies for job training programs for young people. The grants include nearly $1 million for the Southern Appalachian Labor School in Kincaid and $704000 for the West ...

New website provides local job seekers, employers with hiring trends

Victorville Daily Press
... from a labor market survey of more than 3300 employers in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, the largest employer survey ever conducted in the Inland Empire, according to a press release by the San Bernardino County Workforce Investment Board. ...