workforce

Governor announces the Alabama STEM Council

Gov. Kay Ivey on Monday announced that she has signed Executive Order No. 721 establishing the Alabama STEM Council. The council will advise state leadership on ways to improve STEM-related education, career awareness and workforce development opportunities across the state. “Alabama has continued to grow into an advanced manufacturing, aerospace engineering and cybertechnology center of … Continued

September 22, 2020

AlabamaWorks Governor’s Survey deadline extended one week

AlabamaWorks and the Alabama Workforce Council announced on Thursday the deadline for responses to the Governor’s Survey of Employer Competencies — a new tool to survey business owners in different sectors and regions and identify current, in-demand occupations and the credentials of value aligned to those occupations — has been extended one week and will … Continued

June 26, 2020

COVID-19 has changed our state’s industry and workforce landscape, our goal remains the same

The human toll of COVID-19 is unprecedented in Alabama, and businesses of all sizes have taken a shellacking due to the pandemic. As such, our tactical focus for workforce development has transitioned from filling positions in the tight labor market we enjoyed in February to pandemic response, incumbent worker training and dislocated worker training today. … Continued

June 3, 2020

Alabama’s Daniels a finalist for national award for cyber tech school

Alabama House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels’ efforts to prepare a workforce for growing jobs in cyber technology have made him a finalist in the 2019 New Ideas Challenge – a competition among rising and innovative state and local policymakers to propose the most effective solutions on an array of issues. The finalists were announced by … Continued

November 15, 2019

Blind Spots on Alabama’s Workforce Super Highway

Have you ever been traveling down the highway, about to change lanes when you look over your shoulder and see there is a car in your blind spot? How long was it there? Why didn’t you notice it before? It’s critical to the situation at hand, and all it took was a different perspective to … Continued

October 22, 2019

Shinhwa Group will open Auburn operation with $42 million investment

Tuesday, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (R) announced that the Shinhwa Group is opening manufacturing operation in Auburn. “Shinhwa’s decision to invest $42 million and create 95 jobs in Auburn is great news for Alabama,” Governor Ivey said. “Alabama has become an important player in a changing automotive industry, and Shinhwa’s plans to open its first … Continued

October 2, 2019

Alabama’s Workforce Superhighway

Alabama’s workforce programs have undergone several changes in the past couple years and to say that this has caused some confusion would be a huge understatement! I liken it to the 1956 Federal-Aid Highway Act which created the beginnings of the Interstate system that focused on building a system of connected roads that would funnel … Continued

September 30, 2019

Alabama Power named a top economic development utility company

A new report from a business magazine has named Alabama Power one of the most successful economic development teams in the country. Site Selection Magazine is a business publication that covers economic development and corporate real estate. The report found that Alabama Power Corp. had $2.1 billion in new capital investment and created 4,472 jobs … Continued

September 9, 2019

Montgomery leads state in number of nonprofits per capita

Montgomery tops the list of Alabama cities with the most nonprofits per capita, according to a recent study. That might not be surprising, as researchers at the Washington D.C.-based Governing magazine also found that nonprofits tend to cluster around older, more established communities. According to the study released this month, Montgomery had 377 nonprofits, which … Continued

August 16, 2019

Brooks impressed with the work done in the Tennessee Valley to help keep the nation secure

Congressman Mo Brooks, R-Huntsville, toured the 2019 Space & Missile Defense Symposium in Huntsville on Thursday. “It was great to meet with defense leaders from here at home and across the nation during my more than 30 booth visits at the 2019 Space & Missile Defense Symposium held this week at Huntsville’s Von Braun Center,” … Continued

August 13, 2019