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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

January Alaska Economic Trends

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January Trends is the annual employment forecast issue. For 2016, the forecast is that Alaska will lose 2,500 jobs, a 0.7 percent decline. The losses will be spread throughout the state with Anchorage forecast to see a job loss of 0.8 percent, Fairbanks 0.5 percent, and Southeast Alaska 1.4 percent.

Source: Alaska Department of Labor & Workforce Development

December Alaska Economic Trends

DecTrendsDecember Trends summarizes Alaska’s housing market indicators for the first half of 2015. Also this month we look at the top 5 percent of Alaska earners under the age of 30, and how Christmas hiring and yearly peaks in jobs and sales differ in Alaska.

Source: Alaska Department of Labor & Workforce Development

Governor Walker Signs Administrative Order on Apprenticeship Utilization

November 9, 2015 ANCHORAGE – Governor Bill Walker signed Administrative Order 278 last week, expanding state apprenticeship utilization standards.  AO 278 requires at least 15% of project hours on state projects be completed by Registered Apprentices, and sets a 15% target for future oil and mineral development on state lands.  Apprenticeship utilization will expand the supply of highly trained Alaskans and help ensure the state’s workforce can tackle large, complex projects like the gasline. Read the full press release here.

Alaska Economic Trends – November

Nov2015TrendsNovember Trends looks at jobs in Alaska’s fishing industry. Seafood harvesting employment grew in 2014 because of stellar groundfish harvests, which more than offset minor job losses in salmon fishing. The issue also profiles a Southwestern community that relies heavily on the fishing industry – King Salmon. At the gateway to Katmai and a few miles upriver from Bristol Bay, King Salmon has a commercial-size airport and is a strategic location for tourism, transportation, and support for Bristol Bay’s enormous sockeye harvests.