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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
Jobs for teenagers and even young adults are scarce nearly four years after the official end of the Great Recession. It is a trend that has some researchers worried not just about the young people, but also about the health of industries.
Source: GoErie.com
3RWIB Youth Policy Council Chair Laura Ellsworth talks about the projects that have given her the most satisfaction.
Source: The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel
For many, summer as a kid conjures images of long rides in the back of the family sedan, co-ed sports at the local YMCA camp or hours spent on the couch watching TV. These kind of summer experiences still exist, but an array of programs around Pittsburgh are opening the eyes and minds of youth of all ages.
Source: WESA-FM
We know the best way to learn to work is by working. However, there is a silent crisis emerging in our region. While our economy continues to strengthen with positive movement in the housing and stock markets, little attention is being given to the decline in meaningful professional experience for our children.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
While all the mayoral candidates were busy talking about creating jobs, the Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board was launching its 7th annual Imagine Career Week focused on mentoring, training and inspiring youth to get ready for the estimated 3 million permanent science, technology, engineering mathematics (STEM) careers that will need to be filled in the energy field alone.
Source: New Pittsburgh Courier
Meet the new health care professionals.
They are comfortable with technology and using data. They are part doctor, part nurse, part home-health aide. They are team players with excellent communication skills.
Call these people community-health workers, and they have gotten the attention of Stefani Pashman, CEO of the Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board Inc.
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
Parents today will be exposing their children to the working world during Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day, but much more important lessons about employment are learned when those children enter the labor force.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Fox 53 covers Imagine! Career Week at Pittsburgh TechShop.
Source: WPGH Fox 53
Stefani Pashman, 3RWIB CEO, discusses Imagine! Career Week and Take Your Sons and Daughters to Work Day with KDKA-AM's Bill Rehkopf.
Source: KDKA 1020-AM
Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board opened its seventh annual event at the science center for the first time, in order to emphasize the importance of job preparation in science, technology, engineering and math — or “STEM,” as some call it.
Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
The Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board kicked off its eighth annual Imagine! Career Week Monday morning with 120 employers, educators and community partners seeking to prepare area youth to step into the many jobs now held by people nearing retirement.
Source: WESA-FM
The fourth Thursday of April is Take Your Child To Work Day, and lands on April 25 this year.
This is the 20th anniversary of Take Our Daughters and Sons To Work Day—as it is officially called. This year's theme is "work in progress." Click here to view a copy of the Congress and Senate resolution dedicating April 25 as Take Our Daughters and Sons To Work Day.
Source: Patch.com
Stefani Pashman and Kevin Perkey discuss Imagine! Career Week with Audrey Russo and Charlie Batch on techVIBE radio. Click to listen
Source: Pittbsburgh Technology Council
The Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board (3RWIB) has announced plans for its 7th annual Imagine! Career Week, being held from April 22-26, 2013. Sponsored by Citizens Bank Foundation, Imagine! Career Week celebrates the diversity of career opportunities available in the Pittsburgh region and helps students consider a wide range of career fields.
Source: Patch.com