Workforce #ChartOfTheWeek | The Fading American Dream?
Workforce #ChartOfTheWeek Recently, I have been using this chart at the beginning of many of my presentations to educators, businesses and other community leaders…
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SCPa Works CEO Jesse McCree highlights worker shortage in Franklin County
Franklin County talk highlights worker shortage SCOTLAND, Pa. — The area’s economic growth is bringing a people problem with it, Jesse McCree said Thursday. McCree is chief executive officer of SCPa Works, a regional workforce development organization…
SCPa Works EARN RFP
EARN Program RFP 2018-2021 SCPa Works, through this RFP, competitively seeks one or more qualified providers to deliver comprehensive career development, work readiness, placement and retention services to CAO clients who are referred to EARN programming in the South Central Region…
Pennsylvania Clean Energy Employment
Written By: Carissa Gurgul In Pennsylvania, more than 86,000 people work in the clean energy industry, outnumbering the amount of people that work in fossil fuel industries. While clean energy jobs account for approximately 1…
The Need for a Strong Gainful Employment Rule
The Gainful Employment (GE) rule imposes the Higher Education Act’s requirement that all career education programs getting federal aid “prepare their students for gainful employment in a recognized occupation” (Student Aid)…
VIDEO: SCPa Works partners with United Way to help lift working families out of poverty
SCPa Works is partnering with the United Way of the Capital Region on a workforce development pilot project designed at investing in workers’ skills, training and supportive services to help them grow into family-sustaining careers…
SCPa Works CEO Jesse McCree speaks with WITF Smart Talk on labor market challenges
More jobs than unemployed creates challenges for local businesses There are about 55,000 jobs available in Central Pennsylvania and only around 30,000 people looking for work in the region. That’s according to data collected by South Central Pennsylvania (SCPa) Works this summer…
Workforce, economic development leaders talk growth in Franklin County
Mike Ross from the Franklin County Area Development Corporation and Derrick Donnell from PA CareerLink discuss jobs in the county…
There are plenty of jobs in central Pa. So why are 30,000 people still looking for work?
There are plenty of jobs in central Pa. So why are 30,000 people still looking for work? (Via YDR.com) There are significantly more jobs in southcentral Pennsylvania than there are job seekers, according to summer data from SCPa Works. The data shows 55,000 jobs available and 30,000 people seeking work…
Application for in-school youth programming now available
Applications due back to SCPa Works on September 18, 2017. Update: Resources from August 21 In-School Youth bidders’ meeting…
Adams County braces for labor shortages in agriculture
GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA (via Voice of America)— At PA CareerLink Adams County, the job agency in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, custodial worker and former welder Glenn Hendrickson was looking to change careers…
South Central Workforce Development Planning Region posts regional plan for public comment
Public comments are due back by August 24, 2017. The South Central Workforce Development Planning Region, comprised of SCPa Works and the Lancaster County Workforce Development Board, have released a draft version of the WIOA regional plan that outlines a strategic vision for the region’s workforce initiatives…