Austal sets hiring fair for Saturday
Mobile shipbuilder plans to hire 1,000 workers in the next 18 months, some 700 of them right now.
Alabama workforce leaders trying to navigate state’s labor shortage
A job seeker's market challenges Alabama's employers.
Employers develop in-house training to find workers
Alabama employers are becoming creative to lure and train workers in a time of full employment.
Trenholm State opens Advanced Manufacturing Training Center
FAME, Festo Didactic partner with Trenholm State on the project to prepare workers for industrial jobs.
Snead State breaks ground on workforce training center
Snead State Community College officials and local and state dignitaries broke ground on Thursday on the Workforce Skills Training Center.
Keeping college graduates in Alabama
The Alabama Commission on Higher Education has launched an initiative called All in Alabama to keep those sought-after college graduates here
Microsoft teaming with Randolph County for digital skills program
Microsoft Philanthropies is funding a program through the Randolph County Economic Development Authority that will help people gain skills for roles in the digital economy
State repeats record low unemployment
June and July see 2.6% unemployment, lowest ever for Alabama. The map shows unemployment rates by county.
Advanced manufacturing is focus of new Northeast Alabama Workforce Center
Northeast Alabama Community College’s new $25 million workforce development center will focus on advanced manufacturing programs.
Northeast Alabama receives $1 million for workforce center
The legislative appropriation will help build the NACC Workforce Development Center that is expected to cost $25 million.