Tag: Workforce Development
Guest Column: Foundational changes needed to grow Alabama’s workforce
Alabama Community College System believes a bold change centered on high school students and adults is needed.
Guest Column: Focusing on the next level of the workforce
To eliminate ‘Help Wanted’ signs, we must shift our focus to labor force participation. The Ivey Administration is doing that.
Workforce: Robots at the ready
How an idea to help Alabama businesses retain employees became a draw for companies to locate in the state.
Tackling Alabama’s worker shortage
The new Alabama Community College System Innovation Center offers state-of-the-art workforce training.
Northwest-Shoals enters agreement to train Pilgrim’s employees
The Better Futures program provides scholarships to Pilgrim’s employees and their dependents at Northwest-Shoals Community College.
A pipeline for the construction industry
Skilled Trades of West Alabama is training the workers of tomorrow.
Cooperative investment in a coastal workforce — the Gateway Initiative
South Baldwin County creates Gateway Initiative to recruit and train workers for careers in hospitality and tourism.
Shoals seeks to pay remote workers to relocate to the area
In the fall of 2020 Shannon Milliman was looking for remote employment. Certainly, the COVID-19 pandemic meant that a lot more work-from-home opportunities were...