Hammond Area Career Center’s new precision machining academy a certified Indiana State Earn and Learn site
The Hammond Area Career Center’s new precision machining academy now is a certified Indiana State Earn and Learn site.
Center of Workforce Innovations President Linda Woloshansky retiring in early 2021
Linda Woloshansky, founding president of the Valparaiso-based Center of Workforce Innovations, is retiring from the post.
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Region’s collaborative efforts to draw, develop talent earns state designation
When it comes to bringing together different groups to support a goal of attracting, developing, and retaining a workforce, state leaders believe Northwest Indiana knows how to get it done.
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Viewpoint: We salute workers on Labor Day
On June 28, 1894, President Grover Cleveland signed a law establishing the first Monday in September of each year as a national holiday—Labor Day. A day to celebrate the American worker.
Workforce training program funding extended through Dec. 30
Some job training programs whose funding was set to expire in June now will continue through year’s end.
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Partners in hiring
Employers are collaborating with educational institutions, governmental and nonprofit entities to ensure they can find skilled and reliable workers.
The evolving workplace
Sensitivity training has become more important as labor pools become melting pots of people from different ethnic backgrounds, races, religious beliefs and sexual preferences.
Manufacturing bright future
Region takes steps to ensure industry builds on technological skills, workforce needed for success Since the first steel mills opened along the Lake Michigan shoreline, Northwest Indiana has repeatedly proven highly adaptable to meeting the needs of manufacturing. Still this unheralded sector of American productivity continues to be viewed as a dirty, dangerous industry despite