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Success in today’s business world is not easy. Businesses must be aware of every available opportunity to save time and money. The Central Kentucky Career Center can help businesses reduce time and money spent recruiting and training employees. That is why a broad menu of services to businesses has been developed. Each of these solutions is designed to assist businesses in maximizing profits and potential. View our list of services.
The Bluegrass Workforce Investment Board Releases Three-Year Strategic Plan
The Bluegrass Workforce Investment Board embarked upon developing a strategic planning process to review the current operations and to better align itself with the emerging needs of the Bluegrass Workforce Investment Area. The three year strategic plan was developed through a planning process that began in the spring of 2011 and included an employer partner survey; community forums; Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) analysis; sector strategy institute and two full-day strategic planning sessions with the board. The purposewas to define the goals, objectives, and strategies that would ensure a workforce development system of utmost quality. The Strategic Plan is available for online viewing. Addendum A, Addendum B, Addendum C
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Community Challenge | Innovative firms can produce jobs
It’s time for Kentucky to Think Small and Go Big. That’s “small” as in new innovation-driven companies and “big” as in a bold initiative to create a high-energy entrepreneurial economy in the state. Read the article.
Building the Force - BGWIB hones mission to provide skilled workforce to meet needs of area employers.
By Erik A. Carlsonn - Business Lexington
Lexington, KY - If a company can't find qualified workers in an area, the company won't be found in that area. Knowing that, the Bluegrass Workforce Investment Board (BGWIB) has reshaped its mission to survey and serve the private sector in reshaping its workforce to meet the need of employers. Read the article.
Where Did All the Workers Go? 60 Years of Economic Change in 1 Graph
What did the economy look like in the 1950s? If you could organize all the jobs into buckets and compare the paper-shuffling professional services bucket to the manufacturing bucket, what would they look like around 1950, and how has the picture changed in the last 60 years? Read the article.
The Fastest-Growing Jobs During The Economic Downturn (2007-2011)
Here is a look at the fastest-growing jobs in the country from 2007-2011. These are all occupations that have grown despite our nation’s economic turmoil which began in 2007. The data comes from EMSI’s ranking of 800 federally recognized occupations. Read the article.
The mission of the Bluegrass Workforce Investment Board: To develop proactive workforce partnerships: “Connecting employers with employees.”
Jennifer Compton
Associate Director
Bluegrass Workforce Investment Act Program
Address: 699 Perimeter Dr, Lexington, 40517
Telephone:859-269-8021
E-mail: jcompton@bgadd.org
