SubscribeWorkReady™ is a 60-hour foundational skills training program developed to meet the requirements set forth by key Maine employers, provides businesses with workers possessing basic skills—being able to show up for work, on time, as scheduled, ready for work; able to work as a team; understanding the appropriate way to handle and react to workplace conflict; knowledgeable about basic business practices. All identified as common baseline skills required in new employees.
Tag: Workforce development
Success from scratch
I’m now in my fourth year of working for a small nonprofit, focused on workforce development issues. Until I was hired by the Central/Western Maine Workforce Investment Board, I knew little about the complexity of Maine’s workforce development system, and the strategic intersection it has to have with economic development, for Maine to have any kind of future in the 21st century.