The company has invested $30 million to grow the Best Buy Teen Tech Centers to provide participants with hands-on, yearlong after-school activities in programming, filmmaking, music production and design.
DEED will spend more than $160 million on workforce training programs in 2018. How does it know what it’s getting for its money?
Businesses across Minnesota have increasingly been in dire need of skilled workers.
The initiative, which is tailored to get participants to earn certificates in the construction and health care industries, is meant to graduate 1,000 people in the next two years.
According to a U.S. Census Bureau survey, the number of minority-owned companies in the U.S. grew by nearly 5 percent in 2014.
Of the state’s job vacancies in the second quarter of 2017, 44 percent were part-time (less than 35 hours per week), and 15 percent were temporary or seasonal.
Workforce expert offers plenty of techniques that business leaders can use to find, train and retain qualified workers — without support from any state initiatives.
The MN Job Match platform operates much like an online dating website.
Goodwill-Easter Seals was one of seven organizations nationwide to receive the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services first-ever “Employer of Excellence” designation.
During the 2016-2017 school year, the Right Track program trained and placed nearly 900 young people in jobs in St. Paul, with most of those participants coming from communities of color.
A new study puts Minnesota sixth for the number of good jobs held by people without college degrees.
To prepare them for the tech workforce, which boasts more jobs than workers, the program equips participants with coding experience and certificates. It then connects them to paid internships.
Most suburban police departments in the metro are overwhelmingly white. A group of police chiefs is hoping they’ve found a way to change that.
Sharon Brooks developed Hope Works not just to connect ex-offenders to employment opportunities — but to help them deal with the everyday challenges faced after release.
The Workforce Development Scholarship pilot program is aimed at incentivizing students to go into manufacturing, agriculture, health care and IT.
The program gives students experience. But it also helps retain the sort of workers needed for 155,000 high-tech jobs in Minnesota that will need to be filled by 2020.
Immigrants may come in search of opportunity, but some opportunities are more opportune.
Amazon sends buses to Cedar-Riverside to transport employees who work at the company’s Shakopee fulfillment center twice a day — seven days a week.
The need for skilled works is only going to grow, as baby boomers continue to age out of the workforce.
Businesses are hiring hard-to-find entry-level employees among groups that have traditionally been less active in seeking — and landing — employment.
