Posts Tagged ‘job shadow’
Workforce development 101
By its very nature, workforce development is a community prosperity initiative. After all, helping workers gain valuable skills attacks the roots of poverty. Training workers for living-wage jobs can help break the cycle of dead-end work. What’s more, boosting the skills of Whatcom County workers helps local companies fill important jobs so they can grow.…
Read MoreJob shadow program helps Whatcom youth imagine future careers
The Whatcom Business Alliance’s Youth Engagement Initiative is working to make real its vision of a dynamic local economy in which communities, schools, businesses and policy-makers operate together in support of our youth, the emerging workforce. How exactly would the community support youth in this model? Through the promotion of academic and career pathways, workplace…
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