Work-based learning (WBL) can transform the future for students who build skills, confidence and professional networks while employers can develop a strong early talent pipeline. The challenge is providing broad access to opportunities like apprenticeships …
For Janesville resident Jack Lindaman, an internship his senior year of high school with RSPN, an IT services provider, was eye-opening. It changed his mind about what IT career pathway he wants to pursue (networking analyst). It got him out of his comfort …
September is Workforce Development Month, and we're celebrating the programs and people that are helping build our workforce! Iowa Workforce Development and the local IowaWORKS offices are spending the month showcasing the many ways that businesses …
Iowa Workforce Development Communications Date: September 10, 2024 Contact: Jesse Dougherty Telephone: 515-725-5487 Email: communications@iwd.iowa.gov New Webinar Series to Help Expand Work-Based Learning Across Iowa New series will showcase winning models …
Iowa Workforce Development Communications For Immediate Release Date: September 10, 2024 Contact: Jesse Dougherty Telephone: 515-725-5487 Email: communications@iwd.iowa.gov Printer Friendly Version (PDF) Application Period Extended for Disaster …
Iowa Workforce Development Communications For Immediate Release Date: October 2, 2023 Contact: Jesse Dougherty Telephone: 515-725-5487 Email: communications@iwd.iowa.gov Printer Friendly Version (PDF) IWD Welcomes James Williams as New Administrator of …
Iowa Workforce Development Communications For Immediate Release Date: September 27, 2023 Contact: Jesse Dougherty Telephone: 515-725-5487 Email: communications@iwd.iowa.gov Printer Friendly Version (PDF) Iowa K-12 teachers, students invited to sign up for …
When the collapse came, Jack Quick thought his wife was having a stroke. “I couldn’t even hold a coffee cup,” June Quick recalled last month. “I just felt like spaghetti in my whole body.” By the time she was wheeled into surgery, Quick was paralyzed, the …
Iowa Workforce Development and Governor Kim Reynolds announced in late August that the schedule of unemployment insurance rates used to tax Iowa employers will remain at the lowest possible level allowed by law for 2024. This marks the second consecutive …
Iowa Workforce Development Communications For Immediate Release Date: September 15, 2023 Contact: Jesse Dougherty Telephone: 515-725-5487 Email: communications@iwd.iowa.gov Printer Friendly Version (PDF) Iowa’s Unemployment Rate Rises to 2.9 Percent in …
Iowa Workforce Development Communications For Immediate Release Date: August 31, 2023 Contact: Jesse Dougherty Telephone: 515-725-5487 Email: communications@iwd.iowa.gov Printer Friendly Version (PDF) Reminder: MBI-Works 2023 Endowment Funding Opportunity …
Iowa Workforce Development Communications For Immediate Release Date: August 28, 2023 Contact: Jesse Dougherty Telephone: 515-725-5487 Email: communications@iwd.iowa.gov Printer Friendly Version (PDF) Unemployment Insurance Rates for Iowa Employers to …
Applications Extended: Central Iowa Job Training Program Grant DES MOINES, IOWA – Iowa Workforce Development has extended the timeframe for applications on the Central Iowa Job Training Program, an opportunity that supports long-term programs to help …
Iowa Workforce Development Communications For Immediate Release Date: August 17, 2023 Contact: Jesse Dougherty Telephone: 515-725-5487 Email: communications@iwd.iowa.gov Printer Friendly Version (PDF) Iowa’s Labor Force Participation Rate Returns to Pre- …
Eighteen months after Iowa revamped its approach to unemployment and began providing earlier job search assistance to people seeking unemployment benefits, the average length of an unemployment claim has dropped to its lowest level in more than 55 years …
Job-seeking educators and Iowa school administrators with still-open positions are being urged to revisit an IWD website that was set up earlier this year to help Iowans find education jobs. Iowa Workforce Development established a new Education Jobs …
Iowa Workforce Development Communications For Immediate Release Date: August 10, 2023 Contact: Jesse Dougherty Telephone: 515-725-5487 Email: communications@iwd.iowa.gov Printer Friendly Version (PDF) Iowa Expands Support for CDL Training with New …
At least 25 more children from working poor and immigrant families in Des Moines now have hope for expanded access to Barbie Adams' child care center thanks to a $240,000 grant from the state of Iowa. The money is part of $36.6 million in Child Care …
More than 335 job seekers attended a two-day job fair in Newton last month, as Iowa Workforce Development and two IowaWORKS offices joined forces to help find new careers for factory workers losing their jobs at TPI Composites. The event was so successful …
McKenna Link has always admired police officers. But for a long time, she believed that her status as a 5-foot, 2-inch woman with a high-pitched voice kept her from seriously considering law enforcement as a viable career opportunity. “It’s something that …
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