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Local WRCs honored with Site Selectors Guild awards March 03, 2022

Congratulations to the local Work Ready Communities in Bourbon County, Kansas, recipient of the Projects with a Purpose award, and the St. Louis, Missouri region, for the award on Community Innovation.

Boeing Aerospace Manufacturing Partnership Recruits High School Seniors November 25, 2020

Since 2007, Boeing and St. Louis Community College’s innovative workforce development partnership has trained and positioned over 900 job candidates for successful careers at Boeing. STLCC and Boeing now announces the second run of the Boeing Pre-employment Training Program for high school seniors.  WorkKeys requirements include 4 in Applied Math and Graphic Literacy with a 5 in Workplace Documents.

Finding Inspiration in Customer Success Stories November 19, 2019

It’s easy for an executive to get lost in the demanding, broad responsibilities of the work and lose touch with the impact that your products actually have on the ground level, with the customers who use them. I had an experience last week that brought this point to light. Blog post by Suzana Delanghe

Missouri labor shortage spurs call to action February 22, 2019

Missouri has a severe labor shortage, and it could get worse.

That’s the sobering lesson of Workforce 2030, a new report commissioned by the Missouri Chamber of Commerce. The chamber hired Gallup to survey 1,000 employers, whose responses were pretty gloomy.

ST. LOUIS COUNTY EARNS WORK READY CERTIFICATION February 26, 2018

St. Louis County is pleased to announce that it has achieved ACT Certified Work Ready Community (CWRC) status.  States, counties and economic development agencies across the United States have adopted the ACT Work Ready Communities program as a means of providing employers evidence of a skilled workforce.