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3RWIB CEO Stefani Pashman discuss the region's workforce with Stacy Smith and David Shribman during the Jan. 12, 2014, KD PG Sunday Edition.
Source: KDKA-TV
Two years ago, Highmark launched a $2.4-million workforce development program. During a Dec. 19 press event at New Century Careers on Pittsburgh’s South Side, spokesman Evan Frazier said the company was pleased with the results and is committed to ongoing support.
Source: New Pittsburgh Courier
David Chalfant decided last year that he'd had enough of working as a stock clerk in a grocery store.
The West Mifflin resident enrolled in October 2012 in a machinist training program known as Manufacturing 2000 at New Century Careers in the South Side.
Source: Pittsburgh Tribune Review
Highmark will announce results of a two-year, $2.4 million workforce development project Thursday at a skills training center on the South Side.
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
On Monday, the Alcoa Foundation presented Catalyst Connection with $125,000 to fund a new workforce development initiative aimed at providing training and internship experience for unemployed youth.
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
The number of jobs in Marcellus Shale core industries in Pennsylvania, including gas extraction, drilling oil and gas wells and pipeline transportation, increased 149 percent — from 12,188 to 30,369 jobs — between the fourth quarters of 2009 and 2012. And the average wage in core industries was $83,100.
Source: Pittsburgh Tribune Review
Western Pennsylvania laborers rank among the best-skilled technical workforces in the country, giving the region a clear upper hand for its manufacturing resurgence.
Source: Pittsburgh Tribune Review
Daniel Fitzpatrick, president and CEO of Citizens Bank Pennsylvania, told the audience at African American Chamber of Commerce July Business Breakfast that the bank is committed to building the region’s economy, workforce and diversity.
Source: New Pittsburgh Courier
Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board (3RWIB) has rolled out a new online tool that connects job seekers to free or low-cost training programs designed to prepare people for quick entry into well-paying jobs in health care, energy, and manufacturing. Called Quick Train for Jobs, the site is a clearinghouse for free or low-cost, high-quality, brief training programs with some of the region’s most recognized institutions.
Source: Pop City Media
With companies needing skilled workers -- but are not always being willing to pay to train them -- and long-term unemployment remaining a problem in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board has founded a new website to help people find low-cost training programs.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board has developed a website, www.quicktrainforjobs.com, to connect job seekers to free and low-cost training programs.
Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board (3RWIB) announced today that it has launched “Quick Train for Jobs,” an innovative online tool that connects job seekers to free or low-cost training programs designed to prepare people for quick entry into well-paying jobs in health care, energy, and manufacturing.
Source: NewswireToday.com
PITTSBURGH (July 15, 2013) — Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board (3RWIB) announced today that it has launched “Quick Train for Jobs,” an innovative online tool that connects job seekers to free or low-cost training programs designed to prepare people for quick entry into well-paying jobs in health care, energy, and manufacturing.
It's no secret that our region has seen a disconnect between the skills job seekers have and the skills employers need to fill jobs.
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
With the Affordable Care Act expected to increase demand for health care services, demand also is on the rise for the type of skills and knowledge needed to navigate a fast-evolving health care landscape.
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
While there is debate in the country over how much of today’s unemployment is rooted in a skills gap (a recent New York Times editorial called the claim “mostly corporate fiction”), if you talk to people in the Pittsburgh region, many acknowledge there are more open jobs than people with the requisite skills to fill them.
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
At a recent meeting with stakeholders to discuss workforce development, Scott Hudson, principal manager of social responsibility and community outreach for the Alcoa Foundation, asked if there was one profession in manufacturing that has faced a skills gap that has been filled.
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
Governor Tom Corbett, along with PA Department of Labor & Industry Secretary Julia Hearthway, today announced the creation of a program to take private industry recruitment programs and practices and translate them into public sector workforce development efforts.
Source: HeraldOnline.com
The Wall Street Journal included a media release about Gov. Corbett's announcement of the PA Talent Hub.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board among the recipients of the fifth annual Vanguard Diversity Award.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette