Adult Education to Restructure
The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development’s Division of Adult Education has decided to restructure the delivery of adult [...]
Workforce Essentials’ Board Approves New Building!
The Workforce Essentials Board of Directors met by conference call last Wednesday afternoon to discuss the Madison Street Church of [...]
Workforce Essentials Has a New Powerful Tool in its Arsenal
Workforce Essentials has a new powerful tool in its arsenal. It is called EMSI which stands for Economic Modeling Specialist [...]
Mission Possible 2012
Workforce Essentials had another successful Employee Awards program and retreat on August 9th at Montgomery Bell State Park. Focusing on [...]
20 Year Celebration with Major Announcement
On July 11, Workforce Essentials celebrated its 20th Anniversary with a lunch at the Nashville City Club. In recognition of the [...]
Workforce Issues Happening on the Hill in Nashville
Have you heard that welfare recipients will have to be drug tested to keep their benefits in Tennessee? Well that’s [...]
Veteran’s Town Hall Meeting
U.S. Representative Blackburn and U.S. Representative Roe held a Veteran’s Town Hall Meeting to highlight organization and agencies that support [...]
Jobs for Tennessee’s Graduates holds Regional Competition
As the buses from ten area high schools rolled into the Renaissance Center in Dickson on Friday morning, the noise [...]
Job Hunting Requires a Good Resume and Interview Skills
CLARKSVILLE, TENN. — A successful job search, especially in this economy, begins with a neatly prepared resume and polished interviewing [...]
Balancing the Budget
The Workfirst TN program has been an exciting and challenging program for the last 4 ½ years. It began with [...]
Breaking the Mold!
Breaking the Mold! If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got! Breaking [...]
2012…Back to the Basics after 20 years!
As 2012 gets underway, I am sure many of us have looked back on 2011 as one of challenging times [...]
Career Centers in LWIA 8 Host Employers and Partners!
Over the last 30 days a world wind of activity has taken place in LWIA 8! The staff in Career [...]
American Jobs Act – How Would it Affect Us?
Were you able to catch the President’s speech when he revealed his American Jobs Act? Well if you didn’t, the [...]
Department of Labor Begins Top-to-Bottom Review
Governor Haslam has asked the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, along with all other state agencies to conduct a [...]
Coordinating Education with Employer Needs
By: Treva Richardson, Human Resources Director In a recent article by Kathy Gurchiek and posted on the Society for Human [...]
NAWB’s Response to Critics: Time to Ax Federal Jobs Programs
There are four job seekers to every job vacancy and over 13.9 million unemployed in the worst recession that the [...]
WIA Reauthorization
Hold your horses……There has finally been some movement on WIA reauthorization! The Senate HELP (Health, Education, Labor and Pensions) Committee [...]
Advancing Robertson County
Great things are happening in Robertson County! With a 21% growth rate over the last ten years, the 66,000+ people [...]