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Activating Employers to Make Jobs Better
CareerRise is partnering with the National Fund for Workforce Solutions to make a positive impact for employers and the labor force through job quality initiatives. Our work focuses on the transportation, distribution, and logistics (TDL) sector to improve job quality, economic mobility, and business outcomes. CareerRise is driving change by:
- Sponsoring 6-8 local employers’ participation in FSG’s Talent Rewire Accelerator Lab
- Offering frontline employer training to our business partners
- Sharing our Quality Careers and Workplaces Toolkit
- Lifting up stories of innovative employer practices (submit yours here!)
- And more!
For more information, contact Nate Futrell, Industry Partnership Director.
Elevance Health IT Apprenticeship
Elevance Health, which serves as Georgia’s health insurance provider for youth in foster care, launched an innovative idea in 2019 to fill its growing Information and Technology (IT) jobs with the youth on their roster. A pre-apprenticeship program that leads to a job as an apprentice was envisioned as a way to care for youth as they transition into adulthood while also helping the company develop a competent workforce to fill vacant IT positions. Youth who are nearing exit from foster care are recruited to the five-year pre-apprenticeship program where they gain the certification and competencies needed for a career in IT.
Questions? Contact Keren Cadet, Industry Partnership Manager.
CareerReady ATL
In June 2020, United Way of Greater Atlanta, Arthur M. Black Family Foundation, and CareerRise came together to develop a strategic plan to create a robust Youth Apprenticeship system for Metro Atlanta called CareerReady ATL. CareerReady ATL celebrates the robust work-based learning and adult workforce opportunities and leadership that exist in Metro Atlanta and is focused on working together to increase capacity for more youth apprenticeship opportunities. The goal is to create 4,000 high-quality youth apprenticeship opportunities within Metro Atlanta.
For more information or to get involved, please reach out to Michele Jacobs or Keren Cadet.
Industry Pathway Charts Now Available at ATLWorks.Org
WorkSource Metro Atlanta and CareerRise are excited to share new Industry Career Pathway Infosheets available at ATLWorks.org! Documents are available for Advanced Manufacturing, Healthcare, Information Technology, Skilled Trades, and TDL industries as a PDF or webpage. They cover labor market information, essential skills, common career pathways, and more!
Georgia BLU
Business Leaders United for Workforce Partnerships (BLU) is an initiative of the National Skills Coalition and is comprised of employers from a range of industries across the nation who are concerned about our nation’s skills gap and who want our country’s policymakers to invest – aggressively and effectively – in the skills of America’s workers. Our state affiliate, Georgia BLU, provides a common platform from which we can communicate to national policymakers about the effective industry-based strategies which could serve as models for a more comprehensive national skills policy. The Georgia BLU coalition is jointly led by CareerRise and the Metro Atlanta Chamber (MAC). Through our networks, we provide regional and statewide credibility to coalition-building and advocacy for skills training policy.
To learn more about Georgia BLU please reach out to Nate Futrell.
Quality Careers and Workplaces Toolkit
Supporting Your Recruitment and Retention Strategies
In a highly competitive job market, attracting, recruiting, and retaining your workforce is vital to your business’ success. CareerRise is here to help you on that mission.
Our Quality Careers and Workplaces Toolkit is a tool for businesses like yours who want to create the environment, company culture, and reputation that brings employees to your front door and makes them want to stay. The toolkit covers:
The financial case for investing in job quality
- Tools for assessing your company’s approach to job quality and company culture
- Resources for creating a job quality strategy
- Partners who can help tell your Employer of Choice story
- And more!
Join Us!
Industry Partnerships is a collaboration of CareerRise and WorkSource Metro Atlanta (Atlanta, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton, and Atlanta Regional which serves the counties of Cherokee, Clayton, Douglas, Fayette, Gwinnett, Henry, and Rockdale Counties). Participation is open to all interested Metro Atlanta industry and workforce partners.
Interested in becoming a partner or learning more about Industry Partnerships?
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