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A recent job description for a lab technician described the requirements: a bachelor's degree in chemistry or biology, a year of work experience in light manufacturing, the knowledge and ability to mix chemicals, the ability to operate a fork lift, lift heavy boxes and work with hazardous materials. What did it pay? $15 to $17 an hour.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Sept. 28 article "Production Jobs Rare For Young Workers" sheds light on a growing concern for some of the region's key employment sectors -- older workers with jobs in manufacturing, education and health care are expected to leave jobs faster than employers can find qualified younger workers to replace them.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh is facing a critical shortage of younger workers ready to move into jobs that will become available as a result of retirements in the workforce in the next 10 years. What can we do about it?
Source: Pop City Media
When Stephen Shelton looks ahead to that moment in the future when he will hand his construction company over to his son, he sees trouble. The company has a good stable of reliable employees, but they are all in their 40s and 50s. There are no younger workers in the pipeline to take over those jobs.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board (TRWIB) has issued a report on the aging of the region’s labor pool warning of a future shortage of workers. The report finds the region will be faced with a high number of retirements in the future and not enough qualified younger workers to fill critical jobs in key sectors like manufacturing, education, health care, and the trades.
Source: 90.5 WESA Pittsburgh's NPR News Station
Young people in the Pittsburgh region are facing a future with fewer opportunities to garner skills, just as the population of older skilled workers is heading toward retirement.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Older workers are leaving jobs faster than employers can find qualified younger workers to replace them. That’s the conclusion of a report the Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board released on Thursday that said the gap is expected to widen significantly in the next decade and impact the local economy.
Source: Pittsburgh Tribune Review
The Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board is making the taboo assertion that age does matter when it comes to our region’s workforce.
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
Enrollment at community colleges across the country is declining, a pretty good sign that the nation’s economy is picking up, school administrators said.
Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Most jobs in Western Pennsylvania do not require a four-year college degree, including jobs in the burgeoning energy sector. But area institutions are doing a poor job of conveying that message to job seekers, said job-training experts who met Downtown on Monday.
Source: Pittsburgh Tribune Review
On Monday, Jane Oates, assistant secretary for employment and training in the U.S. Department of Labor, is coming to Pittsburgh to talk with representatives of local governments, community colleges, labor unions and businesses about jobs in the energy sector.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Summer employment opportunities for high school students in the Pittsburgh area have shrunk by more than 55 percent since 2000, reflecting statewide and national trends, according to a new report by the Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board.
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
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Letter to the editor by Stefani Pashman, TRWIB CEO
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