Jul. 3—The New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions is hosting a rapid hire event Tuesday to fill call center positions. The department’s Unemployment Insurance Division is looking to hire people to work at the Unemployment Insurance Operations Center. The hiring event is from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the New Mexico Workforce Connection Center, […]
Guest Opinion. The Cherokee Nation strives to be a great place to work, because we want the best and brightest to serve our community. In recent years, Cherokee Nation has made substantial investments in improving our work environment. Today, the Cherokee Nation government employs more 5,300 workers and Cherokee Nation Businesses more than 9,100. They bring […]
Jun. 21—Central New Mexico Community College has hired a vice president of its Workforce and Community Success Division. Joy Forehand will start in her new role July 1. Forehand joined CNM in 2022 as executive director of Student Workforce Success. Since last fall, she has been the interim chief of the division. She is credited […]
Even months after tech company Dell pushed its strict return-to-office policy barring fully remote employees from promotions, its workers still refuse to come back to in-person work. Almost 50% of Dell’s full-time U.S. workforce and one-third of international employees have continued to work remotely, according to internal data from the company, Business Insider reported. Unless […]
LaBELLE, Fla. (AP) — One of Florida’s poorest counties is preparing for the new “Airglades” airport, a $300 million cargo hub that could transform its economy. Local leaders see the project as a generational opportunity, one that could bring more than 1,400 new, high-skilled jobs to their largely agricultural community at the edge of the […]
Batten down the hatches: Both a “‘skills tsunami”’ and a “‘silver tsunami”’ are on the horizon, according to a panel of McKinsey executives. Back in 2010, the U.S. had around 12 million more unemployed people than it had job vacancies, senior McKinsey partner Anu Madgavkar said during the consultancy’s media day last week. “Despite the […]
Jun. 4—Next year will be the start of a new three-year workforce training economic support program. House Bill 303, which passed the 2024 Legislature, created a pilot program to test out how giving people stipends for work training and basic living expenses can help increase access to living wage jobs. It’s focused on training or […]
HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding is taking its recruitment efforts on the road as it looks to bring in more employees to expand its nuclear shipbuilding workforce. The Virginia-based shipyard met its hiring goals in 2023 and is on track to meet them again in 2024, Xavier Beale, vice president of human resources at Newport News […]
May 27—It’s no secret that Texas public schools are losing teachers. Between the fall of 2022 and fall 2023, the attrition rate reached a historic high of 13.4%, according to data collected and published by the Texas Education Agency. Trend watchers say the reasons are varied. The COVID-19 epidemic forced schools across the country to […]
Maryland State Schools Superintendent Carey Wright said Tuesday that school leaders must work harder to diversify and boost the state’s teacher workforce. “It’s got to be a conscious effort,” Wright said during a break at the state Board of Education meeting in Baltimore. “Are we really going into our HBCUs? Are we recruiting? What do […]
BALTIMORE — Racial gaps persist between Maryland students and teachers as the workforce continues to be predominantly white, according to demographic data presented at a Maryland State Board of Education meeting Tuesday. State education officials are prioritizing retaining a highly qualified and diverse workforce as a part of the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future, the state’s […]
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Spirit AeroSystems will lay off 400 to 450 employees, according to an internal email sent to employees. It also said the reduction is to the hourly production workforce. Senior Contributing Analyst, for the Teal Group, Bruce McClelland, and Sedgwick County Commissioner Jim Howell agree, this is a dicey move for Spirit […]