A report from The Times of Trenton – NJ.com: Michael Mancuso/The TimesVincent Harney, bottom right, of Trenton, New Jersey, checks a cooling unit at Princeton Air Conditioning Inc., in Princeton Windsor Industrial Park, 39 Everett Drive, Building D. Harney and Kendall Williams, third from right, of Hamilton, are on six-month paid internships at Princeton Air [...]
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A report from TheReporter.com: SolarTech, an initiative of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, has partnered with NOVA, a job training organization, on a pioneering program that trains people for highly sought after “green jobs” in the region’s fast-growing solar and energy efficiency industries. Called the SolarTech Workforce Innovations Collaborative, or SWIC, the program goes a [...]
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A report from Washington Post: We asked: How would you rate the level of training available to you and your colleagues? What was your initial training experience like, and has your agency done a good job at updating that training and helping you advance in your career? You said: Training was the first budget item [...]
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A report from Wicked Local: Left jobless after retailer A.J. Wright closed its distribution center early last year, people like Aura Santana had a long and difficult path toward finding work again. Santana, and many of the more than 800 who worked at the center, needed to first learn English. Then she went through a [...]
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A report from Essential Public Radio: Friday, March 2, 2012 by Deanna Garcia March 2, 2012 A new federally-funded program seeks to provide Pittsburghers with career training in an array of fields in an effort to fill a large number of jobs left open because of a lack of trained workers. A new federally-funded program seeks [...]
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A report from HeraldNet: MENLO PARK, Calif. — Daniel Macias is the face of Silicon Valley seldom seen by those who don’t live there. When he was 19, he wasn’t starting what would become one of the world’s most successful tech companies, like Mark Zuckerberg did at that age when he founded Facebook. Macias spent [...]
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A report from London Free Press: Jordan Adams Special to The Free Press The closing of London’s locomotive factory will bump up not just the ranks of the city’s jobless, but also the numbers of older people out of work. For many older workers from Electro-Motive Diesel, because of their age, the chance of landing [...]
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A report from Pryor Daily Times: Workforce Oklahoma’s new On-the-Job Training program has been created to reimburse employers for costs associated with training new employees. The Northeast Workforce Investment Board, the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission and Dynamic Education Systems, a service provider agency, have teamed together to promote and provide this service to area employers [...]
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A report from Bellingham Herald: WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s recent proposal to “train 2 million Americans with skills that will lead directly to a job” barely scratches the surface of one of the nation’s most vexing labor problems. The “skills gap” between what employers need and job applicants offer already has become a drag [...]
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A report from Central Valley Business Times: Training program for unemployed workers for High-Speed Rail jobs proposed SACRAMENTOJanuary 19, 2012 11:50am • Would also recruit jobless veterans • ‘Will create new pathways to good-paying high-speed rail construction jobs’ Legislation setting up a special program to train the unemployed for jobs building the California High-Speed Rail [...]
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