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Do you remember your first summer job? Whether it was babysitting, mowing grass or scooping ice cream, the experience most likely gave you the self-discipline and motivation to continue working hard and learning.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board has partnered with the City of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County to offer a new teen summer job program.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Around 2,000 young people have applied for the Learn and Earn program, which connects teens and young adults to six-week paid summer internships, but employers don’t seem as interested.
Source: 90.5 WESA-FM
The National Fund for Workforce Solutions (NFWS) has selected the Pittsburgh Works Material Science Industry Partnership for the Partners Council Award for Exemplary Industry Partnership. In addition, the NFWS has featured the Pittsburgh Works Talent Bank in its monthly e-newsletter.
Source: National Fund for Workforce Solutions
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – The certainty of college life this time of year gives way to the unknown of the future.
Source: KDKA-TV
Applications for the 2015 Learn and Earn program are now available online. Completed applications for the summer youth employment initiative must be submitted in person by April 30 at various locations throughout the county and city.
Source: South Pittsburgh Reporter
Area youth can benefit from summer opportunities through the 2015 Learn and Earn program, a joint effort of Allegheny County, the City of Pittsburgh and the Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board.
Source: Pennsylvania Business Daily
The Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board has an influx of state funds set expire at the end of June and its looking for employers to take advantage of its On-the-Job training program.
Source: PIttsburgh Business Times
Following a February call for volunteers to fill seats on Pittsburgh’s boards and commissions, Mayor William Peduto announced a diverse list of nominees Friday.
Source: Pennsylvania Business Daily
A good job can cure assorted ills. Crime. Poverty. Despair.
Yet the Pittsburgh region is behind its peers in spreading chances for employment around, according to U.S. Census and state data, and that has the business community and others concerned.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Last week, The Workforce Diversity Indicators Initiative released a report outlining minority participation in the Pittsburgh metro area employment market. The title says it all: “Behind The Times, The limited role of minorities in the greater Pittsburgh workforce.”
Source: New Pittsburgh Courier
A federal program designed to spur training for high-tech jobs and boost stagnant wages in the country's improving economy could help bridge the gap between the Pittsburgh region's growing technology sector and the workforce needed to sustain it, officials said.
Source: Pittsburgh Tribune Review
Ever since the British defeated the French and the Indians then changed the name of Fort Duquesne to Fort Pitt, the vast majority of the population of Pittsburgh has been white.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh’s work force is not diverse, a new report shows, but its authors expressed a need for the city to improve.
Source: The Pitt News
With minorities comprising only 11 percent of the workforce in the Pittsburgh metropolitan statistical area, when it comes to diversity the region is lagging behind, according to a report released Thursday.
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
Last year, the City of Pittsburgh’s Summer Youth Employment program had 500 openings. More than 1,300 youths applied.
Source: The New Pittsburgh Courier
They talked and, later, chanted, but they knew it wasn’t enough.
Roughly 200 service workers — including janitors, security guards, fast food workers, students, professors and community members — gathered in the O’Hara Student Center on Thursday at 5 p.m. to hear a panel of workers and experts discuss wage inequality in Pittsburgh, organizers said. The panel was organized by Pitt, the local 32BJ branch of the Service Employees International Union and a local branch of Fight for $15, a national organization.
Source: The Pitt News
Jerome Bettis, Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto, County Executive Rich Fitzgerald and 3RWIB have announced an ambitious initiative launched to connect 2,000 young people to summer jobs in 2015.
Source: PA Workforce Development Association
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Jerome Bettis earned spot in the Pro Football Hall of Fame by running over would be tacklers, but his first job was with the City of Detroit in its police cadet program.
Source: KDKA-TV
As one of the Steel City’s proudest adopted sons, I’m always looking for ways to give back to Pittsburgh, the big-hearted, fair-minded city whose willingness to give a fair shot to anyone willing to earn their keep helped open so many doors of opportunity for me.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette