SCPa Works shares innovative strategies with businesses, educators in Adams County
CEO Kevin Perkey highlights impact of workforce development as keynote speaker…
Monthly Archives: February 2016
Leveraging untapped potential in the York labor market
As one of our strategic goals for 2016, PA CareerLink® York County is exploring ways to help those individuals re-entering the workforce whom have misdemeanors or felonies on their backgrounds. With our unemployment rate dropping in December to 3.9% for the York/Hanover area, 4…
Reentry employment training to help support ex-offenders in South Central PA
On February 4th and 5th, nearly thirty workforce development professionals representing all six PA CareerLinks® in the South Central Workforce Investment Area attended a Reentry Employment Specialist (RES) Training offered by representatives of the PA Department of Corrections. Hilary Thomas of SCPa Works coordinated this event for the region…
Data on disconnected youth drives summer youth employment strategy
Even though this weekend is promising to bring sub-zero temperatures in the South Central region, it is never too early to start thinking about summer. Summer youth employment, that is…
Manufacturing jobs and wage gains are bright spots in January jobs report
Key Takeaways from the January Jobs Report While the headline number of 151,000 payroll increases in the most recent jobs report was generally disappointing to economists, there were a number of bright spots in the jobs report…
SCPa Works CEO Kevin Perkey Quoted in Recent Article On Millennials and Skilled Trades
A recent Central Penn Business Journal article outlined the mismatch between younger workers and occupations in the skilled trades, particularly as more baby boomers are retiring…