Partner4Work News
Last week Partner4Work, the workforce development agency for Pittsburgh and Allegheny County, announced the hiring of a new chief executive. Our city is fortunate to attract one of the nation’s top workforce professionals, Earl Buford.
If the Pittsburgh region lands Amazon’s second headquarters, then it will soon be confronted with another challenge: How to fill the 50,000 jobs that Amazon expects HQ2 will need.
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
Partner4Work's Vera Krekanova Krofcheck discusses the study to understand the causes and consequences of a shrinking labor force in a booming economy.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
The announced $3 billion in investments from the region's leading hospital system should provide an abundance of well-paying job opportunities for Pittsburgh-area job seekers. But will Pittsburgh have enough technically trained people to fill the demand?
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announces Grow with Google, a five-year initiative to provide $1 billion to non-profits across the globe to address digital literacy and job skills.
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
NEXT Pittsburgh interviews Partner4Work Board member and ambassador Will Allen, former safety for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Source: NEXT Pittsburgh
The Allegheny Conference on Community Development made the right move by naming Stefani Pashman as CEO, effective Oct. 2.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Earlier this year, Sarah Peterson of Friendship made the transition from working in nonprofit communications to a career in coding.
She did that by completing a coding bootcamp at Academy Pittsburgh in May. While hunting for a job, Peterson said those hiring and at networking events were generally positive about that experience — and her lack of a bachelors in a related field.
Source: The Incline
The Allegheny Conference on Community Development has found a new leader, one with deep understanding of the Pittsburgh region’s workforce challenges.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Stefani Pashman has been named CEO of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development, effective Oct. 2.
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
PITTSBURGH – Stefani Pashman has been named chief executive officer of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development and its affiliates, effective Oct. 2. She succeeds Dennis Yablonsky, who earlier this year announced his decision to step down from the position at the end of 2017.
Source: Washington Observer-Reporter
The Allegheny Conference on Community Development has named Stefani Pashman its new CEO..
Pashman, the current CEO of Partner4Work in Pittsburgh, will take over the post from Dennis Yablonsky, who plans to retire.
Source: Pittsburgh Tribune Review
Partner4Work, the organization
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
Next City explores the maker movement at 7800 Susquehanna Street in Homewood.
Source: Next City
The premise of the game "Booeys: A Ghost's Code" is a simple one: guide a ghost through a series of increasingly difficult puzzles, helping characters called "Lost" reach the portal on the other side and avoid various pitfalls along the way.
It's the real endgame that is a little more complex. At the end of each level, players see what skill sets they used to achieve a solution, including "logic," "problem-solving," "algorithmic thinking," "building solutions" and "attention to detail."
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
One recent afternoon, Sita Adhikari disappeared into small room bustling with nurses on the fifth floor of Jefferson Hospital. Her shift drawing to a close, she emerged with a cart of plastic cups and moved briskly down the cardiac care unit full of thirsty, bedridden patients.
An 18-year-old Baldwin High School student, Ms. Adhikari came to the U.S. from Nepal five years ago as a refugee. But for all the instability she has experienced, she has her future mapped out: She wants to go to college to be a nurse.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
For three years The Homewood Children’s Village (HCV) has participated in the City of Pittsburgh’s Learn and Earn Summer Employment Program with the purpose to provide work experience to Pittsburgh and Allegheny County young residents.
Learn and Earn is a six-week summer job program for teens and young adults ages 14 to 21. The program provides participants the opportunity to earn money, gain valuable work experience, and to develop soft skills to help them become college- and career-ready.
Source: New Pittsburgh Courier