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- Community colleges offer help for job-hunters
- What Every College Grad Should Know About Landing Their First Job
- Workforce programs share $150000
Community colleges offer help for job-hunters
Arizona Republic AZ
The unemployment rate in metro Phoenix hit 5. 5 percent last month with November figures released in the coming weeks expected to climb. “It’s scary now and it will be scary into next year” said Scott Schulz who directs the Career and Employment Services Center at Glendale Community College. There is a wide variety of options for those laid off including help in the West Valley. Unemployment rates exist only for the Phoenix metro area as a whole but economist Elliott Pollack said that while it’s bad everywhere the West Valley is likely feeling a slightly worse downturn. The Valley economist doesn’t foresee long-term damage although he expects the short-term pain to continue well into 2009.
What Every College Grad Should Know About Landing Their First Job
MarketWatch
This year’s graduatingclass will enter one of the tightest job markets in history according torecent surveys of top companies. Compounding shrinking employment indicatorsis the fact that most college graduates lack the basic skills to compete forthe jobs they want. “The question I hear most often from concerned parents is why their son ordaughter cannot find a good job” said Jim Ratliff vice chairman of CareerPartners International (.
Workforce programs share $150000
The News Herald FL
In addition the grant will allow for the development of a link between workforce development and economic development and joint response systems between each entity that will meet the workforce training and infrastructure needs of existing businesses. “This grant award by Florida’s Great Northwest will help us resolve the gap in talent needed to address the projected needs of targeted businesses and industries such as information technology and engineering in Okaloosa and Walton Counties. The specific components of the grant are geared at strengthening the partnerships among education employment and economic development” said Mary Lou Reed president of the Workforce Development Board of Okaloosa and Walton Counties quoted in the news release. – The Chipola Regional Workforce Development Board was awarded $33000 and will be providing a match of $24782 to facilitate a student robotics competition that will focus on STEM (science technology engineering and math) involvement. “We are excited to receive this grant from Florida’s Great Northwest and the WIRED Initiative. These funds will allow us to give our local students an opportunity to participate in a robotics contest that will challenge them in many ways while giving them exposure to science technology engineering and math and will encourage them to explore career possibilities in these critical areas” said Richard Williams the executive director of Chipola Regional Workforce Development Board. In addition the grant will help to establish “externships” for area mathematics and science teachers.
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