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Earl Buford, President and Chief Executive Officer of Employ Milwaukee, has been named Chief Executive Officer of Partner4Work (P4W). He will assume the role on June 4, 2018.
Allegheny County, the City of Pittsburgh and Partner4Work today announce the opening of the application period for the 2018 Learn & Earn Summer Youth Employment Program and call on area employers to inspire the next generation of talent by participating in Learn & Earn’s Corporate Internship component. Learn & Earn annually connects nearly 2,000 underserved Allegheny County and Pittsburgh residents ages 14 through 21 with 6-week summer jobs in high-demand sectors including health care, education and STEM.
Contingent workers comprise about 16 percent of the national workforce, growing by 9 million between 2005 and 2015, according to the latest estimate. It includes independent contractors, those hired through temp agencies, and contract company workers. Economists believe this rise of the contingent workforce is transforming the labor market. Beyond hours worked and wages, it affects a slew of social guarantees associated with the traditional employer/employee relationship.
Data from online job postings in 2017 show that occupations in sales (22,000 job postings); office and administrative support (20,500); healthcare practitioners and technical areas (20,000); computer and mathematical areas (19,000); management (17,200); and transportation (13,900) are in demand in the Pittsburgh metro area. There is a clear demand from businesses to fill open positions in the region. But are there people to fill these jobs?
At 4.9 percent, Pittsburgh’s December 2017 unemployment rate is approaching a level the Federal Reserve considers nearing “full employment.” This follows a trend of low unemployment rates at the state (4.7 percent) and national levels (4.1 percent). A tightening labor market has generated more competition among businesses for workers, with some of the country’s biggest employers offering more attractive benefits packages, according to a recent New York Times article. While these benefit packages typically have been used to attract salaried workers, employers are using them to recruit hourly workers, too.
The National League of Cities announced the six cities that will participate in its Cities for Racial Equity and Racial Healing Technical Assistance Initiative, and Pittsburgh made the list, along with Charlotte, North Carolina; Long Beach, Calif.; Rochester, N.Y.; St. Paul, Minn.; and Wichita, Kan.
If the Pittsburgh region lands Amazon’s second headquarters, then it will soon be confronted with another challenge: How to fill the 50,000 jobs that Amazon expects HQ2 will need.
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
Source: Pittsburgh Today
A banker, a health care provider and a delivery service worker all walk into a local middle school to talk about jobs.
It sounds like a joke, and Caitlin McLaughlin, an executive vice president at PNC Financial Services Group Inc., had to laugh at the premise, even though she issued the invitation to UPMC and FedEx Ground last spring.
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
Partner4Work, the workforce development organization for the Pittsburgh area, is teaming up with the charitable arm of Google to expand access to IT careers to those underrepresented in the technology industry. As a Google.org nonprofit grantee, Partner4Work will provide access to 100 scholarships to train young adults with the skills needed to begin an IT career.
Partner4Work's Vera Krekanova Krofcheck discusses the study to understand the causes and consequences of a shrinking labor force in a booming economy.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
The announced $3 billion in investments from the region's leading hospital system should provide an abundance of well-paying job opportunities for Pittsburgh-area job seekers. But will Pittsburgh have enough technically trained people to fill the demand?
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announces Grow with Google, a five-year initiative to provide $1 billion to non-profits across the globe to address digital literacy and job skills.
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania’s RISE (Reentry through Industry Specific Education) Project is currently seeking candidates for the program. Now entering its sixth year, the successful construction job-training program focuses on individuals 17-24 who need to earn their GED.
Source: South Pittsburgh Reporter
NEXT Pittsburgh interviews Partner4Work Board member and ambassador Will Allen, former safety for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Source: NEXT Pittsburgh
The Allegheny Conference on Community Development made the right move by naming Stefani Pashman as CEO, effective Oct. 2.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Earlier this year, Sarah Peterson of Friendship made the transition from working in nonprofit communications to a career in coding.
She did that by completing a coding bootcamp at Academy Pittsburgh in May. While hunting for a job, Peterson said those hiring and at networking events were generally positive about that experience — and her lack of a bachelors in a related field.
Source: The Incline