Workforce Development

Incumbent Worker Training Program (IWT) through the Montana Department of Labor & Industry http://www.wsd.dli.mt.gov/service/iwt.asp MT Department of Commerce Workforce Training Grant Program for Primary Sector Workforce http://wtg.mt.gov/default.mcpx

"Customer work, process work and vast swatches of middle management will simply ‘disappear.’

"I think that increasingly in the US, there are two paralleled economies."

In a survey of 12,000 information security specialists by the consulting firm Frost & Sullivan, 56 percent said their organization was understaffed in that department.

With the need for workers so great, and the benefits of working in manufacturing so apparent, what are the steps we can take to bulk up the skilled workforce in our industry?

Acadia is an employee-centric company. Their company philosophy is "Never settle."

This view is evident in the people they hire.

When Gov. Steve Bullock announced the state’s new business plan, "Main Street Montana Project," earlier this summer, apprenticeships were mentioned up top as a key way to "train and educate tomorrow’s workforce today."

"These resources will help our top-ranked schools train Montanans to improve our health care system and make our state an even healthier place to live and work. I’m proud to help bring folks together to move our state forward."

The U.S. will train at least 50,000 veterans to become solar panel installers in the next six years, the White House said Thursday.

How can there be so many unemployed people in the face of so many job openings?