“We Have To Grow Our Own,” the latest installment of Elevate Albany, published in the June 9 edition of the Albany Business Review, is about the workforce and developing the potential of the people needed to grow and sustain the region’s economy.
This edition includes a “Look Inside” Hudson Valley Community College’s Center for Advanced Manufacturing Skills.
Additional topics are:
- Employers grow their own talent: A look at employers who are focused on a “grow your own” strategy, admitting it is near impossible to hire the perfect person with all the necessary skills.
- People who became company MVPs: Short profiles of three people who have become key players in their company – one with a military background, one who stepped up when needed most and another who has grown and taken on additional responsibilities in her 20+ years with the company.
- What’s working elsewhere: Case studies on where this region can draw inspiration.
An atypical path: How three people got to their current position. - Data dive: The jobs and workforce of the future.
- Executive insight: We asked a group of leaders what skills they are focused on developing, what’s working in workforce development and where there are gaps.
- Real-world training for high school students: See what’s happening at the Capital Region BOCES’s Career and Technical Education Center.
- Student sound-off: Tech Valley High School students on what they hope to get out of their future careers, and what adults get wrong about them.
- 10 Minutes With: David Schejbal — a higher ed leader committed to connecting nontraditional students and universities.
The Marvin Library Learning Commons offers a campus-wide subscription to Albany Business Review. Instructions to access the publication can be found at https://libguides.hvcc.edu/business/ABR.
Hudson Valley Community College is a sponsor of Elevate Albany. Remaining installations on housing and regional champions will be published on Sept. 29 and Nov. 17, respectively.