There are 18 article(s) tagged Workforce Development:
While nursing is the nation’s largest health care profession, nursing-school enrollment is not growing fast enough to meet the projected demand for registered nurses.
For a Memphis program, finding home-grown professionals to bolster the medical workforce starts at Hire Local.
“I think one of our first orders of business is just super capitalizing on the word ‘innovation,’” said the Greater Memphis Chamber’s new executive director of the Greater Memphis Workforce Development Board.
With affordable tuition and help with job placement, Tech901 often attracts career changers, people who are underemployed or stuck in jobs without growth — including many college grads.
Sondra Howell of the Greater Memphis Chamber will be the interim director of a regional workforce development board as the program seeks to smooth out a rocky year of transition.
The Greater Memphis Workforce Development Board is set to vote on Executive Director Amber Covington’s future in the role after she declined requests to resign from the board and Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris.
Some of the candidates at the St. Jude Career Fair Tuesday, Oct. 22, come from International Paper, which last week announced it was laying off hundreds of Memphis workers.
To help combat the health care workforce shortage and create a Mid-South talent pipeline, Baptist Memorial is offering free internal training and education to its more than 20,000 employees across the area.
The festival will offer free blood pressure checks, vision screenings and Church Health will host an “Ask the Docs” station.
Over the next five years, the health department will use nearly $14 million in CDC funding to bolster its workforce and infrastructure.
Our economy is on the precipice of historic growth and it is critical that we develop an ecosystem that creates upward mobility for all, says the Greater Memphis Chamber’s president for workforce development.
In part of the Good Jobs Challenge initiative, Mid-South Center and Persevere were awarded more than $36.8 million for workforce development training in the region.
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland says workforce development and a longer-term violence-intervention program are priorities for the use of the federal funding.
The BDC Business Hub represents the nonprofit’s most significant job training and creation endeavor yet. The site will also house business tenants aligned with its mission and commitment toward offering more opportunities for Binghampton residents.
Dana James Mwangi, founder of Cheers Creative, which provides brand design, logo development and website services, is the Grow with Google Digital coach for Memphis.
The Business Hub will use a donated warehouse to provide paid on-the-job training for Binghampton-area job seekers. The BDC also plans to offer employment opportunities.
The nonprofit My City Rides is gearing up for a more aggressive second year to promote its motor scooter sales as an answer to the transportation challenges for many Memphians.
When reporting on economic development, the media often emphasizes tax breaks while downplaying the net new taxes generated. This leads many people to simply misunderstand how incentives work and can have serious repercussions for a community, as can be seen in New York with Amazon.
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