The WIB seized the opportunity to bid on a four-year contract for the Joplin/Southwest region to run the employment and training components of TANF known as the Missouri Work Assistance (MWA) program. Through its proposal, the WIB recommended key reform strategies, such as full integration and resource leveraging for all three of the region’s Job…
GET A BETTER JOB The Missouri Job Center offers the tips you need to sell your skills to an employer. Your job search is backed with live and local customer service along with special events and tools to make your career move a success! Through the Job Centers in Joplin and Monett you’ll find…
With apprenticeships on the rise across Southwest Missouri, there is much to celebrate for the second annual National Apprenticeship Week, November 14-20. Communities large and small recognized the important role Apprentices play in offering employers an opportunity to develop a highly skilled workforce to help grow their business and career seekers the chance to earn…
The U.S. Department of Labor launched GetMyFuture.org a mobile-friendly web application that helps youth plan their careers, explore education and training options, and search and apply for jobs. The app is one of many resources found at CareerOneStop.org, a website to help people plan and achieve their career, education, and employment goals. Developed with input…
A new three-minute video posted by the WIB provides a quick overview of SectorReady. The clip is a video-scribe of the features of career pathways and sector partnerships. The SectorReady framework in 2016 is set to revolutionize the methods by which students and transitioning adults learn about job opportunities and how to get the skills needed…
CMT continues to add partner colleges to its CMT Empowering Education initiative with the addition of 15 schools across rural America, including the participating schools of the Missouri Community College Association. The program aims to increase the number of residents with postsecondary credentials including degrees and certificates in economically-depressed communities. For the first time, CMT…
About 14 million college students are working, according to a new report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (Georgetown Center). For the past 25 years, more than 70 percent of college students have been taking time from their studies to earn a paycheck. Learning While Earning: The New Normal examines these…
The lack of a career path now exceeds salary and leadership as a top consideration employees cite when leaving their jobs, according to the 2015 Randstadt Employer Branding Survey. Twenty-six percent of respondents in the nationwide poll of nearly 11,000 expressed lack of career growth opportunities, followed by salary at 23% and lack of leadership at 19%. Trends…
Smartasset.com’s ranking of community colleges includes three in the Joplin region among the top 100 in the nation, with two at the top. Ft. Scott Community College topped the list and Labette Community College came in at number. Crowder College in Neosho ranked as 26, one of only three in Missouri to make the top 100. The…
The unbundling of education and the momentum building for short-term credentials shows end users that a degree isn’t the only way to earn and learn a living. Mark Schneider from the American Institutes for Research penned a feature, The Value of Sub-baccalaureate Credentials, for the journal Issues in Science and Technology with helpful insights for advocates and…