workforce News

With the half way mark of their 100 day challenge in sight, St Helens Chamber and St.Helens Council are today celebrating a fantastic achievement of supporting local businesses to create 50 new Apprenticeships in the Borough.

The Workforce Investment Board (WIB) of Ventura County has announced the recent reappointment of six members by the Ventura County Board of Supervisors.

WORKFORCE CENTRAL FLORIDA’s supercharged skills workshops provide job seekers with a competitive advantage as they search for a new career. Each course offers skills to help job seekers find, prepare and land their next job.

WORKFORCE CENTRAL FLORIDA will hold Launch 2.0, a half-day entrepreneurial conference created to promote entrepreneurial growth in Central Florida and to prepare job seekers to succeed in an entrepreneurial economy, on Wednesday, May 25.

WORKFORCE CENTRAL FLORIDA UNIVERSITY, a service from WORKFORCE CENTRAL FLORIDA (WCF), will host a seminar titled, “Accommodating Disabilities: Sorting through the Confusion” on May 18, 2011.

JELD-WEN UK has become the 1000th company to sign the Proskills Sustainable Workforce Skills Pledge, demonstrating its long-term commitment to upskilling its workforce,

Employers and employees are looking for new locations for business, affordability and lifestyle reasons, which when it comes to California means more businesses are locating elsewhere.

Great news for Job seekers in the form of positive employment figures from the UK's Office for National Statistics. In the three months to February 2011, unemployment fell by 17,000 to 2.48 million. UK unemployment now stands at 7.8%

WORKFORCE CENTRAL FLORIDA will host a Virtual Job Fair, a 24-hour-a-day online recruiting event that showcases jobs from entry level to top management, Monday, May 9 - Friday, May 13 at www.WorkforceCentralFlorida.com/jobfair.

NYS Real Estate Salesperson License Pre-qualifying, Remedial and Introduction to Real Estate classes begin Tuesday evening, October 11. Classes are Mondays and Tuesdays 5:40 PM to 9:40 PM, 71 E. 94th St., Manhattan. Call for Broker's course schedule.

Baltimore, Charlotte and Miami are top three markets for Q1 2011; Las Vegas, Cleveland and San Diego found to be most sluggish.

JVS Los Angeles joins April Workforce Development in offering workshops, special events, and complimentary consultations to L.A. residents.

WORKFORCE CENTRAL FLORIDA (WCF) will offer its Summer Job Connection program again in 2011, an employment program that will provide valuable summer work experience in a limited number of local jobs for young adults ages 16-21.

Leaders in labor, manufacturing and government gather to confront workforce issues, in particular the creation of a 21st century workforce with the goal of doubling exports by 2014.

The Houston office of Fisher & Phillips, the national labor and employment law firm, is hosting a one day seminar for anyone with responsibility for managing people and policies impacting the workplace.

WORKFORCE CENTRAL FLORIDA UNIVERSITY, a service from WORKFORCE CENTRAL FLORIDA (WCF), will host a seminar titled, “Preventing and Responding to Workplace Violence.”

WORKFORCE CENTRAL FLORIDA is pleased to offer college scholarship opportunities to 2011 high school graduates who plan to major in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math); education; or healthcare.

WORKFORCE CENTRAL FLORIDA is offering an opportunity for 25 individuals to participate in an Entrepreneurial Boot Camp from March 28 through April 1.

WORKFORCE CENTRAL FLORIDA announces new supercharged skills workshops to provide job seekers with a competitive advantage as they search for a new career.

WORKFORCE CENTRAL FLORIDA UNIVERSITY, a service from WORKFORCE CENTRAL FLORIDA, will host a seminar titled, “Complying with the Final GINA Regulations.”

The new web site, www.CT-NYcareers.org is a comprehensive resource for job seekers, employers, and industry groups in the health care and green sectors throughout Southwestern Connecticut and Westchester and Putnam counties in New York.

The SME Education Foundation has grant-funded $50,000 from the Gene Haas Machining Scholarlship Fund to the Focus: HOPE Machinist Training Institute (MTI)

WORKFORCE CENTRAL FLORIDA (WCF) will host a Virtual Job Fair, a 24-hour-a-day online recruiting event that showcases jobs from entry level to top management, Monday, March 14 - Friday, March 18.

Customer service and customer management aren’t terms often associated with the police force. But Superintendent Lance Martin APM of WA Police, is out to prove that the two have more in common than most people think.

WORKFORCE CENTRAL FLORIDA will host a training provider fair to provide Central Florida residents the opportunity to speak with schools in the region about their programs and admission requirements.

As President Obama challenges Americans to win the future, consultant Eva Jenkins urges American businesses to foster innovation with an open corporate culture where ‘legacy’ knowledge holders and ground-breaking thinkers are given equal respect.

Nickelodeon Suites Resort will recruit individuals at WORKFORCE CENTRAL FLORIDA for 150 hotel positions this week.

The clean energy sector is hot. But how much does this sharp growth translate to actual new career opportunities? What kind? How many? Where? It is these questions that workforce training organizations need answered to help talent make transitions

WORKFORCE CENTRAL FLORIDA UNIVERSITY, a service from WORKFORCE CENTRAL FLORIDA (WCF), will host a seminar titled, Affirmative Action and the New OFCCP, What to Expect from the OFCCP under the Obama Administration.

Last week President Barack Obama signed the America Competes Reauthorization Act of 2010, which aims to maintain national economic and scientific leadership by supporting research; science, technology, engineering and math education; and innovation.

NYS Real Estate Salesperson License Pre-qualifying, Remedial and Introduction to Real Estate classes begin Monday evening, January 31. Classes are Mondays &Tuesdays, 5:40 PM to 9:40 PM, 71 E. 94th St., Manhattan. Call for Broker's course schedule.

As a response to the increasing number of professional-level job seekers out of work in the region, WORKFORCE CENTRAL FLORIDA now offers a service to assist professional job seekers with their career search – staffing specialists.

WORKFORCE CENTRAL FLORIDA (WCF) has named two new board members for three-year terms.

Select, train and develop project and program management practitioners to ensure project success

WORKFORCE CENTRAL FLORIDA will host a Virtual Job Fair, a 24-hour-a-day online recruiting event that showcases jobs from entry level to top management, Monday, January 10 - Friday, January 14, 2011.

Devising and strategizing the right formula to win the talent race

WORKFORCE CENTRAL FLORIDA UNIVERSITY, a service from WORKFORCE CENTRAL FLORIDA (WCF), will host a seminar titled, Hot Topics in Employment Law 2011. The January workshop is presented by Jackson Lewis LLP.

WORKFORCE CENTRAL FLORIDA (WCF) will offer a seminar on “Worst-Case Interview Survival Tactics” during four dates throughout December.

WORKFORCE CENTRAL FLORIDA (WCF) has released its 2010 State of the Workforce Report, which highlights what workforce issues Central Florida employers are facing today and what issues they anticipate in the future.

WORKFORCE CENTRAL FLORIDA presented its fourth annual Workforce Champion Award to Orange County Mayor Richard Crotty, along with WCF Awards of Excellence to seven Central Florida employers at its State of the Workforce Summit.

WORKFORCE CENTRAL FLORIDA is searching for young adults ages 18 to 21 to fill 125 internships available in its new program, the CAREER TRACK Connection, an employment internship program, which provides paid interns to local employers at no cost.

WORKFORCE CENTRAL FLORIDA (WCF) received four MarCom awards for its communications programs including two platinum awards, the awards program’s highest honor, and two gold awards.

WORKFORCE CENTRAL FLORIDA has launched a newly designed website to provide today’s job seekers with tools to find jobs and grow in their careers and employers with resources to help them recruit, retain and train employees.

MWS adds another learning track - Innovation in Action consisting of 12 exciting titles to its already large library of over 70 titles available.

WORKFORCE CENTRAL FLORIDA UNIVERSITY, a service from WORKFORCE CENTRAL FLORIDA, will host a seminar titled, Disabilities and the ADAAA on Wednesday, November 17 at 7:45 a.m.

As the fourth quarter of one of the most challenging years in the U.S. economy’s history draws to a close, business consultant Eva Jenkins urges companies that want to stay in business to focus on turning buyer satisfaction into buyer loyalty.

After major gains last quarter, Las Vegas, Denver and Detroit are top three markets for Q3 2010; Riverside/San Bernardino, New York and Sacramento found to be most sluggish.

WORKFORCE CENTRAL FLORIDA will open its second JobVantage office, a new concept that the organization is rolling out in Orange and Seminole counties.

WORKFORCE CENTRAL FLORIDA will host its eighth annual State of the Workforce Summit on October 26, a half-day event consisting of more than one dozen breakout sessions on human resource and training topics and a keynote address and luncheon.

Raul Danny Vargas, President of Marketing/PR firm VARCom Solutions, was appointed by Governor Bob McDonnell to the vitally important Virginia Workforce Council, responsible for ensuring a workforce with skills needed to meet the demands of employers.