Workforce Development

We are excited to announce that we will be producing the second annual State of the Workforce report in April, complete with all of the same data as last year, but now with trending analysis and tangible benchmarks to see how we are doing as a community tackling work force development.

Physician training at Montana State University is poised to take an important step forward this fall with the opening of a new facility for Montana WWAMI students at Bozeman Health on the campus of Bozeman Deaconess Hospital.

"I don’t learn from books," says lanky, soft-spoken Joyner, who sports ear piercings and tattooed arms. "I have to see it. I like learning and doing at the same time."

The award recognizes accomplishments and strategic activities and initiatives that enhance the human resources profession.

Modeled after a successful anti-recidivism program, Kansas has a new volunteer mentoring program to help people on welfare find work.

In the utopian (dystopian?) future projected by technological visionaries, few people would have to work. Wealth would be generated by millions upon millions of sophisticated machines. But how would people earn a living?

Montana will need new doctors to replace the 33 percent of physicians who are age 60 or older and near retirement. Erickson said the state also struggles to find doctors willing to work in rural areas and to train Native American doctors.

Growth in "labor quality," a measure of the skill set of the average worker, has declined in the last few years.

RevUp programs offer students a chance at quicker training so they can still enter the workforce with the ability to demonstrate the necessary skills.

A new analysis this year says demand for healthcare workers in Montana is going to grow by 40 percent in the next 10 years.