Of the 381 metro areas that Moody’s economy.com and msnbc.com tracks in their Adversity Index, the Joplin metropolitan is one of only 79 in the nation that moved the needle from the recession stage to the recovery stage as of August 2009.
Customers in the McDonald County area will soon have greater access to Missouri Career Center services, thanks to the opening of a SNAP in Pineville. SNAP stands for Share Network Access Point, an initiative that brings Career Center products and services locally in more areas across Missouri in partnership with community-based organizations. Collaborating with Career [...]
KOAM-TV News featured a success story this week of summer youth interns moving on to long-term employment in Neosho. The internships were funded through Missouri’s Next Generation Jobs Team. The online video includes comments from Kris Baldwin, the WIB’s Emerging Workforce Coordinator.
Jobs for Missouri’s Graduates (JMG), a school-to-work program onsite at high schools in Joplin and East Newton, as well as thirteen other sites in Missouri, netted a national National Workforce Development Leadership Award from the Jobs for America’s Graduates (JAG), a national youth career preparation program.
The Missouri Department of Economic Development (DED) released a report this week that chronicles significant achievements in Missouri’s workforce development system during the previous fiscal year. The report, “Competing in the 21st Century: Building the Workforce To Lead Missouri’s Economic Transformation” was developed by DED’s Division of Workforce Development (DWD) and includes performance data on [...]
The JoMo Regional HR/Payroll conference held today in Joplin contained a breakout session on economic recovery and transformation. The conference is a joint effort of the Tri-States Human Resources Association (local SHRM chapter) and the Joplin Payroll Association (local APA chapter).
WIB executive director Jasen Jones gave a 50-minute overview of local trends, resources, and opportunities [...]
A national report from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Information Network (O*NET) showcases the Southwest Missouri WIB’s recent efforts to use O*NET resources to attract new jobs and investment to the region.
More than $206 thousand in grants are on the way to Southwest Missouri’s Alliance for Business to boost the skills of 1,336 workers at 14 companies across the region. Missouri’s Department of Economic Development and Division of Workforce Development notified the firms recently of the respective approvals in the Missouri Customized Training Program.
The local firms [...]
A Joplin business attraction, expansion and development initiative that kicked off this week is aiming to create 4,000 direct jobs and 2,596 indirect jobs in the area over the next five years. The Joplin Regional Prosperity Initiative (JRPI) is strategically-aligned with several of the WIB’s workforce and regional transformation initiatives.
More than 70% of the JRPI’s fundraising [...]
A meta-analysis released by the U.S. Department of Education finds that undergraduate and graduate students who took all or part of their instruction online performed better, on average, than those taking the same course through face-to-face instruction. Students who took courses blending elements of online learning with face-to-face instruction fared best of all.
The report attributes [...]