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Workforce Resources Spring Tour Hits the Road with Tools to Help Companies Grow

Friday, March 30th, 2018

Representatives of two workforce initiatives are hitting the road this spring to connect employers across the state with resources to help retain and attract the talent they need to grow their businesses.


The Sector Partnerships Initiative and ApprenticeshipNH are driving the Connecting Workforce Resources Spring Tour, with stops at Keene State College, April 26; White Mountain Community College in Berlin, May 1; Plymouth State College, May 10 and Great Bay Community College in Portsmouth in early June.


Focusing on five core industries – construction, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing and technology – employers in these will learn about programs and training available to them. At each stop, representatives from the Sector Partnerships Initiative, ApprenticeshipNH, the Office of Workforce Opportunity, Work Ready, college business training centers at each community college, and the Department of Employment Security.

“The Connecting Workforce Resources Spring Tour is a great opportunity for businesses to learn about a range of resources available to them in New Hampshire,” said Phil Przybyszewski, workforce solutions project director for the Sector Partnerships Initiative. “We have created this tour to bring a complete menu of resources into five communities for company representatives to learn and see what might align best with their workforce development plans.”

Each event during the tour offers speed networking, when company representatives can get an overview of the workforce resource programs available. Attendees can then meet with program representatives for further information.

“With New Hampshire’s low unemployment rate and a number of open positions in high growth industries, it can be difficult for businesses to attract and retain talent,” said Anne Banks, workforce development administrator for the Community College System of New Hampshire and ApprenticeshipNH.

For more information, contact kathleen@cooksonstrategies.com or call 603.782.8192.

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The Sector Partnerships Initiative is a new industry-driven state-wide effort to help New Hampshire businesses in targeted industries address workforce needs. Focusing on five core industries – construction, health care, hospitality, manufacturing and technology – SPI assists companies in finding funding and training resources that provide employees with improved skills and career advancement opportunities. SPI also helps companies create a network to convene and collaborate with other companies on a regular basis to identify shared hiring, training and retention needs.

The ApprenticeshipNH program, housed at the Community College System of New Hampshire, is a unique effort that prepares workers as Registered Apprentices to better compete in the modern workforce. Focusing on the advanced manufacturing; healthcare, and information technology sectors, the ApprenticeshipNH program provides workers with invaluable opportunities to pursue highly-skilled, high-paying jobs, and opportunities for employers seeking to build a qualified workforce in NH. The program is funded through a $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration.

Help Wanted: Granite Staters Invited to be a Part of New Hampshire’s Red-Hot Economy

Tuesday, January 30th, 2018

Commissioner Taylor Caswell Business and Economic Affairs

On the front page of this week’s New Year, New Job, a special edition of the New Hampshire Union Leader, Business and Economic Affairs Commissioner Taylor Caswell invited Granite Staters to stay in, or return to, the state and become a part of our vibrant economy.

In case you haven’t noticed, New Hampshire’s economy is red-hot. Like powder hounds headed north on I-93 to ski after a snow storm, we’re outpacing the rest of New England and creating phenomenal opportunities – the kind of opportunities not seen in a generation.


Live in the North Country, work at a law firm or a hospital, and go skiing on a Wednesday afternoon. 


If you left after high school or college five or 10 years ago, now’s a good time to come back. If you’re graduating from high school or college this spring and unsure where you want life to take you, think about staying here and joining one of our many growing companies who really want you.

New Hampshire is an employee market. There are thousands of good, high-paying jobs spread out across a state that is routinely ranked near, or at the top, for quality of life.

Live on our Seacoast, work at an international biotech company, and after work go for a kayak on Great Bay. Live in the North Country, work at a law firm or a hospital, and go skiing on a Wednesday afternoon.

Today, national publications are talking about Manchester’s Silicon Millyard, our hotbed of technology and innovation. This is the spot where a whole new biofabrication industry, with over $300 million in funding, is turning science fiction into actual medical science.

New entrepreneurs statewide are taking advantage of our economy, our low business taxes, and zero income and sales tax and settling into our unique communities to grow their dreams, from craft breweries, coffee shops and niche businesses on Main Street to creating and expanding our $8 billion outdoor recreation economy.

These are exciting times to be in New Hampshire; consider joining us and help write the next chapter of the long and successful history of our great state.

Taylor Caswell
Commissioner
Business and Economic Affairs

 

Focus Groups Lay Foundation for Talent Attraction

Thursday, February 9th, 2017
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The needs of employers in New Hampshire attended a talent attraction focus group with week.


Leaders from advanced manufacturing and high technology – two of the key industries driving New Hampshire’s economy – joined us this week for focus groups conducted by Development Counsellors International, which specializes in economic development and talent attraction and has been working with us on campaigns to highlight these industries to a national audience.

These in-depth discussions explored the challenges companies are having in finding employees; challenges our state is not alone in facing these days.

Anne Struthers and Carol Miller from our division organized the sessions and report robust discussion from the participants.

This information now lays the groundwork for creating a marketing campaign to retain and attract the workforce New Hampshire needs so that our companies increase their competitiveness, grow and prosper.

Lorna Colquhoun
Communications Director
Division of Economic Development