Workforce Development

MSU’s Extended University offers several non-credit courses this fall that help working professionals learn business and home office software.

All Missoula businesses are encouraged to attend and contribute to the conversation!

An expert in invention and entrepreneurship who has forgotten more about both than most people know recently used this line in a room of economic development professionals: "Increasingly, there is no room in America for the unskilled."

Money will help college respond to needs of manufacturing industry

Technology and globalization are wiping out lower-skilled jobs faster, while steadily raising the skill level required for new jobs. More than ever now, lifelong learning is the key to getting into, and staying in, the middle class.

Technical, engineering and health care expertise are among the few skills in huge demand even in today’s lackluster job market. They are also, unfortunately, some of the most expensive subjects to teach.

What jobs in the medical field are most in demand, now through the next five years?

The internships are among a handful of programs being implemented to meet workforce readiness goals of the Great Falls Public Schools.

Even more than with analytical skill, social intelligence increases the wages of knowledge workers but of blue-collar and service workers as well.

Here are five strategies for bringing out the best in your teenage employees.