Employers are making a strong return in the Phoenix metro area, adding 126,500 jobs in September which accounts for 88 percent of job growth in Arizona for the month in year-over-year data comparisons. In total, Arizona added 143,900 jobs in the month as reported October 21 by the Arizona Office of Economic Opportunity. Phoenix has recovered all jobs lost in the pandemic … [More]
Ways to Secure the Talent Needed for a Holly Jolly Holiday Shopping Season
With retail employment down by more than 250,000 since February 2020 and the holiday season rapidly approaching, retailers are preparing for a labor shortage that will negatively impact in-store and online customer shopping experiences. According to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, retailers are expected to add 700,000 workers during the 2021 holiday season. While this … [More]
Insight Academy of Arizona Becomes First Online Career Program Approved by State DOE
Insight Academy of Arizona (ISAZ), a full-time online school serving students throughout the state of Arizona, becomes the first 100% online school recognized by the Arizona Department of Education for their Career Prep program. The ISAZ Career Prep program allows students in middle- and high-school to jump-start their future by taking career-focused electives to explore job … [More]
Republic Services Opens Industry’s First Technical Institute
Republic Services, Inc., a leader in the environmental services industry, today unveiled its Technical Institute, the industry's first-ever diesel technician training program. As the need for skilled workers continues to increase, this investment offers best-in-class training, fully compensating students during the 12-week program. Graduates will immediately begin full-time … [More]
Junior Achievement Partners with Pipeline AZ to Help Youth Understand Career Opportunities
Pipeline AZ, an Arizona career development and job skills exploration platform, and Junior Achievement of Arizona, a workforce, entrepreneurship and financial literacy preparation program for Arizona students, announced a new collaborative partnership pairing each organization’s unique tools and services to create a comprehensive and robust career readiness solution for Arizona … [More]
Navigating Your Journey
We’ve all been in those moments when we feel stuck. It feels like life is just happening to us. Even in those hardest moments, there are always opportunities to take control and navigate purposefully toward our goals. In Navigating Your Journey, author Vicki Updike shares her personal experiences and lessons learned as she continues to help women in their careers. This book … [More]
Skin in the Game
Dermalogica founder Jane Wurwand shows readers how to turn their unique traits and experiences —especially the ones they may think are their biggest setbacks — into the tools needed to make their dreams a reality. This is not a memoir. By sharing her journey, Jane offers a guide to readers of how they can find themselves and their purpose by harnessing the resilience and … [More]
Right Within
In workplaces nationwide, women of color need frank talk and honest advice on how to deal with microaggressions, heal from racialized trauma, and find relief from invisible workplace burdens. Filled with Minda Harts’s signature wit and warmth, Right Within offers strategies for women of color to speak up during racialized moments with managers and clients, work through past … [More]
CVS Health to Hire 600 across Arizona
CVS Health to Hire 25,000 Across the U.S. During One-Day Virtual Career Event Pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, nurses, and retail store associates in high demand to support flu season, COVID-19 vaccinations and testing Candidates can text “CVS” to 25000 to begin the application process CVS Health announced that it is recruiting qualified candidates to fill … [More]
Amazon to Hire More Than 7,500 Employees across Arizona
Amazon continues to provide opportunities for full-time and part-time jobs in logistics as it expands its footprint to better serve in communities where they live. Today the company announced that it is providing an additional 7,500 local employment opportunities throughout Arizona on top of the 40,000 corporate and technology jobs recently announced. The roles in fulfillment … [More]
Logistics Co. to Hire 250 Seasonal Workers in Phoenix to Prepare for Peak Season
Global leading transport and logistics provider GEODIS announced plans to hire 250 seasonal workers in Phoenix, Ariz., in preparation for peak season. In total, GEODIS aims to hire 4,200 seasonal employees across its U.S. campuses to bolster its warehousing and distribution center capabilities through 2021 as online shopping continues to surge to record heights. eMarketer … [More]
Collaboration between Education and Industry Forges a Stronger Workforce
While Arizona’s fourth-place ranking for GDP growth per year in the U.S. has attracted an influx of industries looking for a home in the Valley, it also highlights the lack of a “talent-ready pipeline for Arizona’s growing economy,” according to the Education Leadership Group, a collective of more than 50 education leaders from across the state. That gap can only be filled … [More]
MCCCD’s Free Education Concierge Service – Highnoon among Employers Opting In
Statistics show that 93% of employees say using their employer’s tuition assistance program helped them develop the skills they needed to grow within their company, yet only 10% of employees utilize tuition assistance from their employer if it is offered. Many factors impact this underutilization, but for many it is lack of understanding of funding opportunities through … [More]
