LAS VEGAS, NV - Workforce Connections, Southern Nevada’s Local Workforce Development Board (LWDB), awarded $14,337,000 in federal funds from the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) to ten local workforce agencies for the 2017-2018 fiscal year starting July 1, 2017, with the goal of training and employing a ready workforce in Southern Nevada.
Nonprofit agencies and organizations that provide employment and training ...
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Jim Kostecki Named as Interim Workforce Connections Executive Director
Las Vegas, NV - The Southern Nevada Workforce Development Area’s Local Elected Officials Consortium (LEOs) voted to appoint Jim Kostecki as interim executive director of Workforce Connections, Southern Nevada’s Local Workforce Development Board (LWDB), effective immediately.
Kostecki joined Workforce Connections in 2012 as finance manager and was promoted in 2016 to Chief Financial Officer where he supervises the finance department and all ...
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Workforce Connections to hold Pop-Up Career Fair: 89101 on Thursday, May 4, 2017
LAS VEGAS, NV - Workforce Connections is taking its successful career fairs on the road with the first ever Pop-Up Career Fair: 89101 to be held on Thursday, May 4, 2017 at the Clark County JJS Gymnasium, at 651 N. Pecos, Building F, Las Vegas, NV 89101, starting at 11 a.m.
“We are committed to taking resources to the neighborhoods that need us most,” said Kenadie Cobbin Richardson, Workforce Connections director of business engagement and ...
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Workforce Connections Announces Nevada Day Super Hiring Event on November 3, 2016
Workforce Connections will hold its third Nevada Day Super Hiring Event on Thursday, November 3, 2016 at 10 a.m. at the Culinary Academy of Las Vegas, 710 W. Lake Mead Blvd., Las Vegas, NV 89030, with the goal of placing qualified job candidates into new careers.
More than two dozen employers with more than 200 open jobs in career fields like health care, IT, manufacturing and hospitality will be interviewing potential hires on-site during the ...
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Workforce Connections Awards More Than $11.8 Million to Help Southern Nevadans Get Back to Work
Many people in our community need some assistance finding work, including adults who may be re-entering the workforce and who face barriers to employment, those that have been laid off or terminated, and younger workers who may need help to start or strengthen their career.
Recently Workforce Connections awarded $11,847,000 in federal funds to ten local nonprofit workforce agencies with the goal of training and employing a ready workforce in ...
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RFP 101 Workshop Scheduled for January 27, 2016
The Request for Proposal or "RFP" is essential for any business or organization hoping to qualify for Federal Workforce dollars. But many people do not understand the RFP process or have never learned how to avoid some of the common mistakes made in RFPs.
That is the purpose of a special workshop planned for Wednesday, January 27, 2016, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at Workforce Connections at 6330 W. Charleston Blvd, Suite 150, Las ...
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Workforce Connections to hold Request for Proposal (RFP) 101 Workshop on January 27, 2016
Las Vegas, Nevada - January 14, 2016 - Workforce Connections is holding a Request for Proposal (RFP) 101 Workshop on Wednesday, January 27, 2016, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Workforce Connections, 6330 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 150 Las Vegas, NV 89146 in the Rosalie Boulware Conference Room.
As the Southern Nevada Workforce Development Board, Workforce Connections awards local community and faith-based organizations approximately $20 million of ...
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Workforce Connections Adds New Members to Business Engagement Panel
The mission of Workforce Connections is to connect employers to a ready workforce. One way the agency helps to understand the needs of local employers is through the Business Engagement Panel.
Workforce Connections' Business Engagement Panel members have decision-making and hiring authority in their respective businesses and can deliver real time and locally relevant workforce intelligence. Information gleaned from panel members is used to ...
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One-Stop Career Center talks training on News 3 at Noon
And this is why we love what we do.
One-Stop Career Center's Kenadie Cobbin Richardson was on News 3 at noon today talking to Kim & Dana Wagner about training and the employment landscape in Las Vegas. After the interview, a member of the floor crew stops her and says One-Stop helped him get his job. Visit www.NVCareerCenter.org for more on how One-Stop and its partners can help you. Or call 822-4200.
Watch Kenadie's interview here: ...
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Congrats to Golden Corral Las Vegas & Workforce Connections’ One-Stop Career Center
Two hundred seven new jobs. Two hundred seven steady paychecks. Two hundred seven people who have new hope going into the New Year.
The hiring of all the positions at the new Golden Corral on Lamb near Charleston is a symbol of what Workforce Connections' One-Stop Career Center is all about. Together with its agency partners, One-Stop worked hand in hand with Golden Corral management team in hiring.
Workforce Connections' One-Stop Career ...
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