Category: Workforce Development

Workforce Wednesday: Careers in Health Care

According to the Alaska Department of Labor, the number of Alaskans older than 65 years old will increase by 79 percent by the year 2022. This means from nurses and doctors to EMTs and physical therapists, the need for workers in Alaska’s healthcare industry is only expected to grow.

One option to kickstart your career is one of Alaska’s Area Health Education Centers. They’re based in Anchorage, with regional centers throughout the state.

Gloria Burnett, the director of Alaska’s Area Health Education Centers, joined Daybreak Wednesday to share how statewide programs can help people get into the industry.

“We’re a pipeline program and we’re a statewide program, so even in rural communities we provide opportunities through outreach presentations — job shadows, intensive summer camps, really just hands on experiences to engage people of all ages in health care careers,” Burnett said. “The really neat thing about our program is you can take part in these experiences in your community, in your rural community.”

Interested? Contact Martha Peck, the outreach and education coordinator with Alaska Process Industry Careers Consortium, at 907-770-5250.

Source: Workforce Wednesday: Careers in health care | KTVA Anchorage CBS 11

New Skills For Youth: Investing $75M Today to Build Tomorrow’s Economy

Young people need pathways to high-quality training and skills to compete for jobs

We believe every young person deserves a pathway to economic success. That’s why we’re announcing a new $75 million investment to expand high-quality career-focused education programs that lead to well-paying jobs and long-term careers. Failing to prepare young people with the right skills and education for these jobs is not just a missed opportunity for them—it’s a missed opportunity for businesses to hire the talent they need to grow and compete.

With the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium we are launching a multi-million dollar competition for states to expand and improve career-focused education that prepares students for high-skill and high-wage jobs.

Learn more details on this initiative, and click here (Opens Overlay) to learn more from the Council of Chief State School Offers about what you need to do to apply.

“Economic opportunity is increasingly out of reach for millions of young people. Without the right skills or education, they find themselves stuck in low-skill, low-wage jobs or unemployed. We are in investing in high-quality career-focused education programs so that more young people have a shot at real economic opportunity.”

Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Source: New Skills For Youth: Investing $75M Today to Build Tomorrow’s Economy | JPMorgan Chase & Co.

MAPTS Underground Mine Camp Graduation

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Mining and Petroleum Training Service (MAPTS) will be graduating a new cohort of underground miners on Monday, February 15th, 2016 at the MAPTS Delta Mine Training Center in Delta Junction, Alaska.

The training facility consists of:
– A 36-person camp with dorms, a kitchen and dining hall, and laundry facility
– Surface shop and storage area
– Dry (change-out facility)
– Surface driving track training grounds
– Underground mine training facility that includes a shop and offices
– Underground and surface mine equipment
– ThoroughTec Cybermine Simulators
– On site Limited Communications systems

Interested in touring the facility and watching live demonstrations? Plan to attend the upcoming graduation. For more information, call (907) 262-2788.

Workforce Wednesday: Regional training centers | KTVA Anchorage CBS 11

This Workforce Wednesday, Daybreak looked at training centers across the state that’s making first class work experiences more accessible to Alaskans, even in the most remote locations.

Alaska has a handful of regional training centers around the state. They’re public nonprofit centers created to give people training in areas such as operating heavy equipment, occupational safety and health care. For example, you can be trained to use heavy duty safety gear that’s needed for those who work on an oil rig or in a marine environment.

Cari-Ann Ketterling with Alaska Process Industry Career Consortium said getting this special training can open doors to a great career.

“You would be amazed at some of the facilities that they have,” Ketterling said. “But AVTEC in Seward has a state of the art, world class training facility where you can learn to drive a super tanker to any port in the world, and then there’s also some occupational health and safety training, most centers offer some health care occupational training. Ilisagvik College in Barrow creates training programs very specific to industry needs and timely to their projects.”

Where’s the closest training center to you? Watch the video to learn more.

Source: Workforce Wednesday: Regional training centers | KTVA Anchorage CBS 11