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Site Selection Magazine's November edition includes a dozen location spotlights that include WorkKeys NCRC growth trends to demonstrate workforce quality. Features include Kansas, the Dakotas, Virginia, Nebraska, New York, Mississippi, Washington, and Wyoming.
The Work Ready Communities throughout the First Tenneessee Development District have a solid leadership group that also joined forces to reduce opioid addiction in their region. Now the U.S. Department of Labor's WorkforceGPS plans to showcase this work in an upcoming online event planned for May 31st.
The First Tennessee Development District announced at this year’s Semi-Annual meeting, hosted in Greeneville, that Greene County has become a Certified Work Ready Community, joining Hancock, Hawkins and Sullivan Counties with the designation, the Greene County Partnership announced in a news release. Site Selector magazine annually includes information about the Work Ready distinction as one of the best measures of workforce readiness as businesses look to expand to new communities, according to the news release.
Greene County became Tennessee's 19th county to earn the Work Ready Communities certification. In a feature published by the Greeneville Sun newspaper, Greene Technology Center Principal Randy Wells noted that the center tested 92 employees from John Deere in June.
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