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The booming oil industry in west Texas has many local employers working to determine how to maintain a full and productive workforce. Because the region is essentially at full employment, the Permian Basin Workforce Development Board recently hosted a job fair for local high school students to prepare the community's next generation of workers. Watch this video to understand how hundreds of high school students in west Texas are gaining valuable insights about career opportunities that will soon be available to them in their own backyard and how local businesses are making investments in them today to avoid workforce challenges in the future. http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQOHB
Most workforce development boards don't have the challenge of serving businesses and job seekers that are equally rooted in both rural and urban communities like the Rural Capital Workforce Development Board in central Texas. Paul Fletcher is the Executive Director for the Rural Capital Workforce Development Board. He and his staff use an integrated workforce development system to successfully connect job seekers to the “big businesses” in the urban territories and the "mom-and-pop shops” in the rural areas of the nine-county region they manage. Watch this video to learn how Paul Fletcher and the Rural Capital Workforce Development Board leverage partnerships and innovation to overcome the transportation, childcare, training and other workforce issues that confront them daily. http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQO5a
Read the latest version of our Putting America to Work Newsletter: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQhQD
Our @ResCareWFS family extends congratulations to the Workforce Development Board partners that received awards at last week's @TXWorkforce annual conference - including North Central Texas for the Rising Star Child Care services featured in this video: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQhIH
Join us in congratulating Debra Giordano for being a Finalist in the Female Executive of the Year category for the 15th annual Stevie® Awards for Women in Business. Watch the awards live 7:30pm ET Friday here: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQJEH …
VRC is a great example of how to build a successful company by committing to hire military veterans. The nation’s largest privately-own private investigation firm is an employer partner of ResCare Workforce Services in Texas and is unapologetic about proactively seeking military veterans to build its expanding national workforce. Watch this video to learn how the company’s culture helps make VRC a place where military veterans seek to work and ultimately thrive. http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQSKJ
Keeping up with workforce policies isn't easy. This post-summer Washington Update by ResCare Workforce Services' Bob Knight will help. http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQrH9
There are a lot of important updates in the workforce world. Keep up with the latest news in this week's Putting America to Work Newsletter: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQkSy
In Chicago, the phrase "the best way to stop a bullet is with a job" is one Karin Norington-Reaves often hears in her role as CEO of the Chicago-Cook Workforce Partnership. Despite the infamous reputation the city has developed for its gun violence, Norington-Reaves doesn't believe the answer to Chicago’s murder rate is as simple as getting people employed. Watch this video to understand why overcoming transportation, childcare and societal barriers play an important role in providing holistic workforce solutions that help combat neighborhood violence in places like Chicago. http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQkS0