GA Workforce Panel: Collaboration Key
The panel met at Chattahoochee Technical College to discuss workforce development, training and WIA funding in Georgia.
Collaboration was the theme of a panel discussion today centered on workforce development at Chattahoochee Technical College's North Metro Campus in Acworth. Despite Georgia’s unemployment rate of 9.7 percent, employers are looking for workers, and that’s where collaboration comes into play, moderator Ron Banta said. The question is how to get workers into the jobs. One thing the state is doing is to offer its Work Ready program just to those who are unemployed as a way for them to gain skills needed to move forward, said Tricia Pridemore, the executive director of the Governor's Office of Workforce Development. This year, 16,500 skilled jobs are expected to become available, Pridemore said. “This will be a good way to put Georgia back to …
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Pam J
10:04 am on Saturday, January 28, 2012
And we don't need to discriminate because of age. I went through the Cobb Works program to get some training to help me in my job search, and although she won't admit it if asked, the lady that I talked to about which training course I was going to take said that since I was 58 years old, my options were limited. So limited in that I wasn't approved for anything. more ›