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Are You Tour Ready? Part 2
Compiling our manufacturer friends’ thoughts, we’ve compiled another checklist for you to use as guidance as you strive to perfect your tour.
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Solve Your Workforce Challenges by Thinking Outside-of-the-Box
New solutions and innovative tactics to tackling your workforce challenges.
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Are you Intern Ready?
A Summary of VALEES EFE Director Cassie Blickem’s Workforce Strategies Forum Presentation
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Are You Tour Ready?
It’s Manufacturing Month! Back in the day, it was called “Manufacturing Day.” But thank goodness someone had the good sense to capture the entire month.
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GCAMP Launches GCAMP Connects
GCAMP Connects is a collection of blog posts to keep our readers informed and encouraged about the manufacturing workforce needed in the Golden Corridor.
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Workforce System and Apprenticeship Partnerships
Check out these documents to learn about the Apprenticeship Advantage.