Tag: CTE

Workforce Wednesday: Culinary Arts career in Alaska | KTVA Anchorage CBS 11

Alaskans hungry for a career in the culinary arts don’t have to look very far.

Wednesday,  Cari-Ann Ketterling with Alaska Process Industry Career Consortium and Rachel Saul, manager and part-owner of Fire Island Bakery in Anchorage, joined Daybreak to serve up a solution to those looking for a career in the Culinary Arts field.

NANA Management Services has approximately 120 positions open every other month. The majority of them are food service jobs such as catering coordinator, remote kitchen helper and cook. General manager positions in this area can make up to $90,000 per year.

Those looking for training have plenty of training options to choose from across the state.

“There’s training all over the state,” Ketterling said. “AV Tech, KCC, UAA, UAF, training in high school.  There’s high demand and high career.”

Visit NANA’s employment website to check for job openings in food services.

Source: Workforce Wednesday: Culinary Arts career in Alaska | KTVA Anchorage CBS 11

$100 Million Announced for TechHire Partnership Grants

fundingAnnounced on Nov. 17 by the Department of Labor, the TechHire Partnership Grants funding opportunity offers significant new money and approaches to education and training partnerships to train more adults for the IT industry, with an emphasis on young adults between the ages of 17 and 29 and those with barriers to employment. Office of Career and Technical Education (OCTAE) stakeholders working with these populations are encouraged to learn more. Sign up to stay current with technical assistance and announcements on this opportunity.

Applications are due March 11, 2016. 

See a fact sheet from the White House on the larger TechHire initiative.

Source: OCTAE

RFP RELEASE: Perkins Postsecondary Implementation Grant

The RFP for the Perkins Postsecondary Implementation Grant has been released.  This is a competitive grant for postsecondary credit offering institutions only.

You may download the RFP directly from the EED Forms & Grants webpage at: https://education.alaska.gov/forms/CTE/05-16-031.pdf.  Submissions are due to EED via ctegrants@alaska.gov by 4pm on April 22nd.

Please note that while EED had hoped to facilitate budgets via the GMS system, it didn’t work out due to high costs.  Therefore, you will need to submit budgets via Form 05-13-052 available here: https://education.alaska.gov/forms/CTE/05-13-052.xlsx

There will be an informational session on the RFP during the EED/CTE Spring Workshop in Anchorage, February 4-5th.  If you need more information on this meeting, please contact Thomasina Anderson at thomasina.andersen@alaska.gov.  There will also be a webinar scheduled later in spring.

If you have any additional questions, you can contact:
Bjørn Wolter, Ph.D.
Career & Technical Education
Alaska Department of Education & Early Development
907.465.6542
bjorn.wolter@alaska.gov

Workforce Wednesday: Training options for Anchorage teens | KTVA Anchorage CBS 11

From construction and welding to culinary arts and veterinary science, the King Career Center is helping students open doors to their future.

Wednesday, Cari-Ann Ketterling with Alaska Process Industry Career Consortium and Lou Pondolfino, the principal at King Career Center, joined Daybreak to talk about programs open to local teens with an interest in a certain career.

Pondolfino said The school serves over 1,500 primarily junior and senior students each year.

“All our programs are advised by industry members and they meet and they look over our curriculum and our equipment and they give us advice and we follow their advice on how we do things,” he said. “And we’re open to high school students throughout Anchorage.  ”

King Career Center offers on-the-job training programs through employer such as:

  • Alaska Native Medical Center
  • GCI
  • Cabella’s
  • Home Depot

Contact the King Career Center to learn more.

Source: Workforce Wednesday: Training options for Anchorage teens | KTVA Anchorage CBS 11

Workforce Wednesday: Construction careers for women | KTVA Anchorage CBS 11

Women make up just under nine percent of people working in construction across the nation, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Jana Lage with the Alaska Process Industry Career Consortium and Tamie Tayor, owner of Taylored Business Solutions, joined Daybreak Wednesday to talk about the construction industry and how there are more options out there, specifically for women.

Taylor began working construction 25 years ago, and said back then, it was tough to work in a male-dominated field. Now that family dynamics have changed, more woman are entering the construction field.

“Opportunities are endless in construction, because you have the office, you have the field and then you have the ownership as well,” Taylor said.

To find out who’s hiring in construction and how you can get started on a construction career of your own, visit the websites below.

Source: Workforce Wednesday: Construction careers for women | KTVA Anchorage CBS 11