Lisa Katz| Crain’s Detroit Blog In first quarter 2013, Southeast Michigan saw over 76,185 unique online job postings. That represents a 38 percent increase over fourth quarter 2012 (to be expected — hiring tends to decline during the holiday season) but a 7.7 percent decline compared to a year ago. Several of the region’s key …
Carl Erickson| Crain’s Detroit Business As everyone who’s recently tried to hire developers or interaction designers knows, there’s an acute talent shortage in the U.S. This should be worrisome to everyone, given the importance of software to nearly all aspects of the economy, but is especially troubling for firms that rely on software for innovation. …
IT,Health Care Show Strong Results in First Quarter DBusiness Journal DETROIT — The Workforce Intelligence Network of Southeast Michigan (WIN) released its first quarterly report today outlining labor market trends, including real-time employer demand determined through online job postings, for the nine counties of southeast Michigan that includes Genesee, Livingston, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, Shiawassee, St. …
Matt Roush| CBS Detroit LANSING — Site Selection magazine has named Michigan the 8th most competitive state for achieving success in job creation and economic development, Gov. Rick Snyder announced Thursday. “More companies are choosing to grow their futures in Michigan and that is reinforcing our well-earned reputation as America’s comeback state,” …
Matt Roush| CBS Detroit DETROIT — A new report from the Workforce Intelligence Network of Southeast Michigan finds that IT, health care, engineering, design and skilled trades positions are most in demand inthe region’s labor market. WIN is a joint effort of eight community colleges, seven Michigan Works Agencies and other organizations to create a …
If you want to be one of 25 students who will be a part of this ground-breaking program, and have your tuition paid, please read on! We are offering a second group of students the opportunity to join the grant-funded Electric Vehicle Development Technology certificate program at Macomb Community College. Qualified applicants for …
Lisa Katz| Crain’s Detroit Blog It is increasingly clear that Southeast Michigan’s economic revival is being driven by jobs in the “knowledge economy.” Lou Glazer and Don Grimes, in a related report, point out that from 1990 to 2012 U.S. job growth climbed 34 percent for high-education industries and 14 percent for low-education industries. They …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Don Tanner or Justin Fisette May 8, 2013 248.626.0006 Workforce Intelligence Network releases Q1 2013 employment demand findings Southeast Michigan’s regional occupational clusters, including IT and health care, had strong employer demand in Q1 2013 while employment and labor force held steady. DETROIT – The Workforce Intelligence Network …
For Immediate Release May 1, 2013 Contact for Reporters: Janet Hawkins jhawkins@wccnet.edu 734-973-3623 ANN ARBOR, Mich. (May 1, 2013) – Washtenaw Community College is offering 50 new scholarships worth $3,000 each for seniors from any high school to attend WCC after they graduate. “Reducing the financial barriers to college is one of our top priorities …
Tom Walsh| Detroit Free Press After five years of virtual silence during the region’s economic free fall, Detroit is on the verge of mounting a major marketing push to reestablish the city as a host of state and national meetings and conventions. “Detroit, America’s Great Comeback City” will be the tagline for the new campaign, …
Lisa Katz| Crain’s Detroit Blog Southeast Michigan employers say they are struggling to find the talent they need, especially in key fields like information technology and advanced manufacturing. And they do not want just any talent: They want seasoned talent. In fact, nearly 50 percent of job postings indicate a preference for hiring workers with …
Michigan Shifting Gears (MiSG) is a three month program that helps highly experienced, educated and talented people undergoing a career transition find new opportunities with smaller, innovative companies. The purpose of the program is to help displaced professionals learn new ways to frame their value in the workplace and develop networks – thus opening new …
Dave Muller| MLive DETROIT, MI – ADP Dealer Services is setting up a “Digital Marketing Innovation Center” in downtown Detroit’s Renaissance Center as part of a more-than-$3 million investment that will add 150 jobs. A $1.5 million Michigan Business Development performance-based grant, approved by the state on Wednesday, helped attract the company to the Motor …
Matt Roush| CBS Detroit EVANSTON, Ill. — For the second year in a row, industrial employment in Michigan posted a gain according to the 2013 Michigan Manufacturers Directory, an industrial directory published annually by Manufacturers’ News Inc. in Evanston, Ill. MNI reports Michigan gained 14,648 manufacturing jobs from January 2012 to January 2013 or 2.3 …
Lisa Katz| Crain’s Detroit Blog My good friend and former co-worker, Kristin Wolff, points out that, in today’s world, where technology reigns supreme and the economy remains relatively volatile, there has been a splintering of the traditional concepts of work and labor market. One outcome is the emergence of a non-traditional employment concept of she …
Jia Lynn Yang| Washington Post If there’s one thing that everyone can agree on in Washington, it’s that the country has a woeful shortage of workers trained in science, technology, engineering and math — what’s referred to as STEM. President Obama has said that improving STEM education is one of his top priorities. Chief executives …
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But threats from payroll tax hike, federal budget cuts will loom throughout the year Brian J. O’Connor| The Detroit News The Michigan jobless rate dropped to its lowest level since the summer of 2008 in March, falling to a seasonally adjusted rate of 8.5 percent. The rate was three-tenths of a percentage point lower …
Lisa Katz| Crain’s Detroit Blog There has been a lot of speculation lately as to whether the purported skills gap being touted around the country and right here in Southeast Michigan is the real thing. Various reporters have pondered this question, and respected economists have asked the same thing, including one from the Federal Reserve …
Jeff Karoub| Detroit Free Press A Michigan-based social and economic services agency has launched a comprehensive program to help immigrants open or expand businesses. Dearborn-based ACCESS recently held a graduation ceremony for the inaugural class of its Immigrant Entrepreneur Development Program. It’s one of several immigrant- and refugee-focused efforts in the organization’s new Growth Center …
Tom Watkins| The Oakland Press Our Community Colleges are a vital link in helping to reinvent the great state of Michigan. Community colleges are the grand entranceways to enhancing knowledge and skills, giving individuals a boost up life’s economic ladder while strengthening our communities. Given the troubling, tumultuous, transformational times we are now living in, …
Janet Hawkins| WCCnet.edu Justin Bhatia graduated from the WCC medical office assistant program in December. Three months later, he was dressed in a crisp blue shirt and gray slacks, waiting patiently to speak to a University of Michigan representative about employment opportunities at the U-M Medical Center. Bhatia was one of close to 400 job …
Toolbox.com According to a recent guest blog on CrainsDetroit.com, the top ten manufacturing job postings in the Southeast Michigan region are related to the information technology field, including positions such as software developers, computer programmers and system analysts. The Michigan auto and parts manufacturing jobs increased by 22,500 from November 2009-12, according to University of …
Ben Freed| AnnArbor.com The Economic Outlook for Washtenaw County, published by University of Michigan economists George Fulton and Don Grimes, showed job growth in the region that would fully replace all jobs lost in the recession as early as mid-April. The good news continued as the economists predict that by 2015 there will be 11,000 …
Tom Hillen| Woodtv.com GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) – Forbes Magazine has placed Grand Rapids and Detroit on its list of “emerging downtowns.” “As more Americans, particularly college-educated young adults ages 25 to 34, opt for urban lifestyles, cities scramble to revitalize their central business districts,” according to Forbes. The write-up said a major part of …
Fifth annual survey conducted by UM-Dearborn’s Center for Innovation Research DEARBORN, March 26, 2013–Technology business leaders have a more consistent and positive perspective of Michigan as a place to do business, according to the fifth annual Michigan Technology Climate survey conducted by iLabs, UM-Dearborn’s Center for Innovation Research. The survey, which assesses opinions of executives …
Matt Roush| CBS Detroit DETROIT — Michigan is following a national trend towards becoming a knowledge-based economy across all industry sectors, including traditional ones such as agriculture and manufacturing. The trend is causing employment and income growth to be increasingly driven by education levels and has major consequences on how Michigan should best support economic …
Gov sees opportunity to keep young talent of Mich. colleges home Daniel Howes| The Detroit News Detroit — Buy Michigan soon could get a whole new meaning. In hopes of replicating the success of a two-year-old program encouraging Michigan companies to buy goods and services from Michigan suppliers, the state’s economic development agency is in …
Jonathan Oosting| MLive LANSING, MI — Gov. Rick Snyder is inviting the best and brightest minds in Michigan business to Detroit next week, where he will host an economic summit focused on regional collaboration and identifying talent needs to drive future growth. “This is a working summit,” Snyder told MLive on Friday. “This isn’t just …
Craig Fahle| WDET Shows A report released by the Workforce Intelligence Network of Southeast Michigan identifies Southeast Michigan’s largest growth sectors and makes recommendations for how the educational and corporate sectors can collaborate to prepare the workers of today and tomorrow. The report names healthcare, IT and advanced manufacturing as the three strongest growth sectors …
Dustin Walsh| Crain’s Detroit Business The Southeast Michigan jobs market is rebounding, but an aging workforce and skills gap continue to plague employers in need, according to a report released Monday by the Workforce Intelligence Network. The Detroit-based coalition, which works with eight local community colleges, seven MichiganWorks agencies and economic development agencies, is urging …
Continued growth in IT, healthcare and manufacturing coupled with declining unemployment offer opportunity for economic prosperity in region DETROIT – A new report released by the Workforce Intelligence Network of Southeast Michigan (WIN) identifies the region’s three strongest growth sectors in the labor market and the challenges and opportunities for talent development in the state. …
Macomb MTEC is now offering a CNC operation class that is scheduled to begin on Monday, March 11, 2013, and they are in need of students to fill it. This class is funded through the Macomb Community College’s DOL defense grant. Students would need to contact the college to get tested and eligible by this …
Dave Sowerby| Crain’s Detroit Business Michigan will soon have a major economic summit to discuss both business conditions and prospects for future growth. Encouragingly, Michigan has been experiencing its best economic performance since 2000, both on an absolute basis and when measured in comparison to the national average. As of the fourth quarter of 2012, …
Free Advanced Energy Storage Courses (WSU+MCC) Feb-2013 PDF Dear Friends and Colleagues in the Energy Storage Sector: Good news! Free training is now available to employers in the energy storage sector from Wayne State University (WSU) and Macomb Community College (MCC). Next Energy and our partners urge you to take advantage of these course offerings for yourself and/or your colleagues. Please …
Sarah Schmid| Xconomy Thanks to a $1 million grant from the Michigan Strategic Fund, Detroit business incubators Bizdom and TechTown are partnering with Invest Detroit on a new initiative called the Detroit Technology Exchange (DTX). DTX will consist of programs geared toward strengthening Detroit’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, attracting and retaining talent, and getting investment money flowing through the …
Dave Phillips| Advisor & Source While there’s still a long way to go to reach prior levels, Michigan’s economy is showing signs of a resurgence. For the second consecutive year, the state showed a modest increase in payroll jobs in 2012. Michigan had 3,983,000 jobs in 2012, is up nearly 50,000 from the year before …
Jeff Green and Mark Clothier| Business Week Andrew Watt says he figures the shelf life of an auto engineer looking for a job in Michigan is about three days. Companies that wait longer than that will have to get back in line for the next candidate. “If their skills are even on the edges of …
Katherine Mangan| The Chronicle of Higher Education President Obama’s call in the State of the Union address to close the skills gap in advanced manufacturing is already being heeded by community colleges around the country, as they forge closer ties with local industry to design certificate and degree programs, as well as apprenticeships. In his …
Shandra Martinez| MLive WALKER, MI — Meijer will invest more than $160 million to build or remodel 11 stores that will create 1,500 new jobs, the Walker-based retailer announced Wednesday, Feb. 13. The investment includes the construction of six new Meijer supercenters and major remodel projects for an additional five stores. The new stores will …
CBS Detroit The Whole Foods Market in development in midtown Detroit is slated to open in the end of May or June, 2013. Job listings will be posted online starting April 2 according to a tweet by Detroit City Council President Charles Pugh posted February 12. The construction site at 3670 Woodward Ave. Suite 103B …
Mark Arend| Site Selection Will an influx of high-tech workers reverse Detroit’s fiscal trajectory? David Carroll, vice president, Quicken Loans Strong growth in manufacturing is one factor behind Detroit’s economic recovery — a process still very much under way. (In December, the city was bracing for layoffs of hundreds of city workers in the New …
Matt Roush| CBS Detroit DETROIT — Business Leaders for Michigan, the statewide successor CEO organization to Detroit Renaissance, issued another report Tuesday forecasting that Michigan’s economy will grow faster than the United States economy as a whole over the next six to 18 months. The forecast is reinforced by 60 percent of BLM members planning …
John Gallagher| Detroit Free Press A majority of established Detroit entrepreneurs expect to hire more full-time and part-time workers in the coming six months, an indication of growing strength in the local economy. The Entrepreneurs’ Organization, a global non-profit network of more than 8,000 businesses in more than 40 countries, said its recent survey of …
David Sands| Huffington Post It’s alive! The Detroit area is becoming a national hub for biotechnology, the field that merges life science research with medical technique to form a super-science hybrid. While Biotech doesn’t get as much attention as Detroit’s storied industrial past, or even downtown’s recent wave of tech startups, the recently-released Detroit Future …
The Detroit News State concentrates on fundamentals as it seeks to claw its way back to competitiveness Once-powerhouse University of Michigan basketball is back, flirting with upending Duke as the No. 1 team in college basketball. So can once-powerhouse Michigan compete against economic giants like California and Massachusetts for jobs in the 21st century? Impossible, …
Melissa Burden| The Detroit News The Michigan Strategic Fund board Wednesday approved incentives for 14 projects across the state in which the companies plan to invest $1.1 billion and create 4,590 jobs. The investments include several from automotive suppliers who are expanding operations; a dairy farm; Whirlpool Corp. relocating work from Indiana to Benton Harbor; …
Carol Cain| Detroit Free Press With the graying of Michigan’s population will be growing opportunities for businesses and organizations catering to this aging boomlet. “If we look at the tri-county area, we see the population age 65-and-up expected to grow from 428,082 in 2010 to 732,310 in 2030 — that’s a 71% increase,” said Kurt …
Melissa Anders| MLive LANSING, MI — Michigan’s unemployment rate was unchanged at 8.9 percent in December. The annual average jobless rate also came in at 8.9 percent for 2012, down from 10.3 percent in 2011, according to preliminary data from the Michigan Department of Technology, Management & Budget. The national unemployment rate was 7.8 percent …
Karl Henkel| The Detroit News Auto parts suppliers are primed to boost jobs in 2013 in an effort to keep up with accelerating U.S. auto sales. Suppliers invested heavily in their plants beginning in 2010, but delayed hiring until the automotive recovery was firmly under way. Now, they plan to expand their payrolls by tens …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE : Contact: Justin Fisette 248.254.6789 January 16, 2013 “IT in the D” Graduates Second Class Students gain foundational training for careers in information technology DETROIT, Mich., – With interest in joining Downtown Detroit’s growing IT workforce surging, 27 students will graduate from the second session of IT in …
Amy Biolchini| Ann Arbor.com The job market outlook is positive for registered nurses in the next five to 10 years in Michigan, industry professionals say. Though the economic recession slightly changed the hiring trends for health care providers, the job sector continued to grow as Michigan’s manufacturing economy shrank in the past five years. It’s …
The Workforce Intelligence Network (WIN) is a promotional sponsor of the Society of Automotive Engineers event next month at Macomb Community College in Warren. WIN also will present at the event, Strategic Human Resources Management and the Evolution of the Technical Automotive Workforce, will take place from 8 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. on February 12. Attendees …
Mark your calendar for the next LiveWorkDetroit! event, scheduled for January 26 at the North American International Auto Show at Cobo Center. LiveWorkDetroit! showcases Detroit as the place for Michigan’s college graduates and young professionals to live and work. Detroit is one of the hottest places in the country and LiveWorkDetroit! gives participants the opportunity to see …
Karl Henkel and David Shepardson| The Detroit News Hiring binge is the biggest for Ford in more than a decade Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co., which shed white-collar workers during the industry downturn, plan to hire more than 3,000 salaried workers this year. Ford said its intention to hire 2,200 salaried workers in …
Mike Campbell| CBS Detroit The job market is tough — in Michigan the unemployment rate is at 8.9 percent — but there are jobs out there, especially in specialized markets like machine shops and for high-tech positions like CNC operators. Fox 2 and WWJ Business Editor Murray Feldman told listeners in a recent Feldman Report …
David Muller| MLive DETROIT, MI – If Detroit goes, so goes the state of Michigan. That was a message from Detroit Economic Club’s 2013 Michigan Economic Outlook on Tuesday, where topics ranged from improving the state’s higher education to the right-to-work debate, as well as what the Motor City means to Michigan’s economy going forward. …
Jeffrey R. Heni| Education Week Recent efforts to read the tea leaves for insights into education policy bring to mind a somewhat unsettling analogy to Sovietologists of the Cold War era. Before the fall of the Soviet Union, expert commentary focused on divining the inclinations of top leaders by poring over speeches and public documents, …
Jon Marcus| United Hemispheres Detroit is in a curious predicament: It has high unemployment but also thousands of open jobs in tech and high-skilled manufacturing. The unprecedented solution that its businesses, schools and local agencies have devised could serve as a model for the nation. FRANK LITFIN FEELS LIKE he’s tried everything, from the local …
Huffington Post From the Motor City to Mobile City? Maybe soon. A new conference on designing applications for Apple’s mobile operating system hopes to spearhead the growth of Detroit’s burgeoning tech economy. The first Detroit Mobile City iOS conference will offer tech newbies and sophisticated engineers alike the chance to polish their skills in programming …
Kathy Blake| The Oakland Press Michigan ranked third in the nation for high-tech job growth from 2010-2011, a new study by Engine Advocacy of San Francisco showed. The report also said Lansing ranks as the sixth top metropolitan area in the nation for high-tech job growth over the same period, and Warren/Troy/Farmington ranked 13th. “This …
Brian J. O’Connor| The Detroit News Michigan’s November jobless rate dropped by another two-tenths of a point, putting the state on track to post its second straight year of job growth in more than a decade. Unemployment in the state dipped from 9.1 percent during October to 8.9 percent in November, according to data released …
December 14, 2012 Legislation permitting Michigan community colleges to grant bachelor’s degrees in selected fields was passed by the Michigan Legislature last night and awaits the governor’s signature. HB4496 allows the state’s 28 community colleges to offer baccalaureate degrees in cement technology, maritime technology, energy production technology and culinary arts – fields in which there …
David Muller| MLive DETROIT, MI – IT in the D has legs. On Wednesday morning the founding companies if the program – Quicken Loans, Compuware, GalaxE, Fathead and Marketing Associates - are signing a Memorandum of Understanding with Workforce Intelligence Network (WIN) to formalize a commitment to the program. The partnership establishes WIN’s fiscal arm – …
University of Cincinnati|Sciencecodex For each 10 percent rise in the number of residents with a four-year college degree, the average overall employment rate in United States metropolitan areas rose by 2 percent between 1980 and the year 2000. That employment rate rose higher for women (2.2 percent) vs. men (1.9 percent) and benefited some of …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Don Tanner December 13, 2012 248-626-0006 Workforce training initiative IT in the D strengthened for 2013, beyond DETROIT, Mich., – IT in the D founders formally pledged their commitment to the high-tech training program through the …
Ryan Kelly| Crain’s Detroit IT in the D today entered into a formal partnership with the Workforce Intelligence Network that will let IT in the D pursue 501(c)(3) nonprofit funding opportunities and build its programs. The signing, at a Quicken Loans Inc. office in downtown Detroit’s Chase Tower, established the Southeast Michigan Community Alliance — …
John Gallagher| Detroit Free Press Quicken Loans founder and Chairman Dan Gilbert and his partners have bought another landmark skyscraper in downtown Detroit. Gilbert’s Rock Ventures, the umbrella entity overseeing his portfolio of companies and investments, announced today it has purchased the historic One Woodward office tower at Woodward and Jefferson Avenue. The 333,000-square-foot, 26-story …
Mary Switzer| Livingston County Michigan Works! Agency “The Skills Gap”, “Mass Exodus of Young Adults”, “Good Jobs Unfilled”; these are some of the headlines seen around Michigan in the last two or three years. Generally, the headlines are correct; many entry level workers are deficient in one or more area of skills necessary for the …
Dan Tynan| EDTech Project-based learning and a culture of collaboration fuel student success at a technology-centric high school in Pinckney, Mich. Romeo and Juliet: The story of two star-crossed lovers, American and German, who met on Flanders Field in 1914 with the fate of the world hanging in the balance. Doesn’t sound familiar? It’s by …
Melissa Anders| MLive LANSING, MI — College graduates can expect a slightly better job market this year, but research shows employers’ confidence is strained and many students aren’t doing enough to prepare for careers. The job market for college graduates will grow about 3 percent this school year, according to Michigan State University’s annual Recruiting …
Susan Ricker| Career Builder If the economic meltdown of 2008 and the following years of rebuilding the economy were made into a movie, it’d be tediously slow, and you’d just skip it and ask a friend how it ends. Spoiler alert: It’s starting to become clear how this movie ends, and you’ll definitely want to …
Brian J. O’Connor| The Detroit News Michigan’s jobless rate dropped for the second month in a row in October, falling two-tenths of a percentage point from 9.3 percent to 9.1 percent. Data released Wednesday by the Department of Technology, Management & Budget showed total employment in Michigan rose by 13,000 in October. The number of …
Brent Snavely| Detroit Free Press Chrysler will provide more evidence today that its recovery is in full swing as it details plans to invest $238 million in three Michigan plants and add about 1,250 jobs so it can ramp up production of its engines and pickups. Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne, Detroit Mayor Dave Bing and …
Dustin Walsh| Crain’s Detroit Business Ann Arbor’s National Center for Manufacturing Sciences and the Michigan Economic Development Corp. plan to create an innovation center to accelerate manufacturing in the state. The center, which will be housed in General Electric Co.’s Van Buren Township campus, will provide digital modeling and simulation tools for Southeast Michigan’s small …
Matt Roush| CBS Detroit ANN ARBOR — The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences Tuesday announced a collaboration with the Michigan Economic Development Corp. to establish the first advanced manufacturing laboratory in what will be a national network to accelerate manufacturing by providing easy access to digital modeling and simulation tools. GE’s Advanced Manufacturing and Software …
Amanda McGrory-Dixon| ProducersWeb.com Sixty-five percent of employers report they’d hire veterans instead of equally qualified candidates, according to a new CareerBuilder study. The study also finds that 29 percent of respondents say they are targeting veterans for employment, marking an increase of nine percentage points from 2011, and 22 percent of respondents say they expect …
Meghan M. Biro| Forbes It’s almost November 11th. Pop quiz: does the holiday honor Armistice Day, the day when WW1 officially ended (although hostilities continued for some time)? Does it mean Veterans’ Day, the US recognition of Armistice Day meant to honor all veterans of all foreign wars? Or Is it just a day off …
Tom Walsh| Detroit Free Press When Michelle Salvatore heard alarming data last year about the high jobless rates for military veterans — around 12% at the time — she thought, “Well this is crazy; we should hire more vets.” As director of recruiting for fast-growing Quicken Loans, which is hiring more than 100 people a …
Sharon Miller, Vice Chancellor – External Affairs for Oakland Community Colleges, and Bill Sleight, Director for Livingston County Michigan Works! Agency and chair of the Southeast Michigan Works Agency Council, have been re-elected as co-chairs of the Workforce Intelligence Network Board of Southeast Michigan. WIN is a collaborative effort between eight community colleges, seven Michigan …
In a blockbuster deal to combine two of Michigan’s largest hospital groups, Henry Ford Health System and Beaumont Health System are expected to announce Wednesday that they have signed letters of intent to pursue a merger. A press conference is to be held at 11 a.m. at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, with CEOs …
John Gallagher| Detroit Free Press When the Skidmore Studio graphic design firm moved to downtown Detroit a year ago, its owner, Tim Smith, remained a little uncertain how the move from the suburbs would impact his business. Today, Skidmore Studio is celebrating a 30% growth in staff, several new clients, and a projected revenue increase …
Vivian Giang| Business Insider Some cities are experiencing economic recovery faster than others. To find out which areas are producing the most job growth after the recession, CareerBuilder teamed up with the Economic Modeling Specialists (EMSI) to see where the top markets are located. “There is a close correlation between the top locations for job growth …
Anneke Jong| Forbes The story of Detroit is one of decline and hopelessness. From headlines about rampant unemployment to traveling photo exhibits of “ruin porn,” the story America tells itself about Detroit is that of a dying city overcome with despair. That is simply not true. On the last weekend before fall set in, I …
George C. Halvorson, Peter Goldsbrough, Simon Kennedy, James Kent, Karalee Close, and Daniel Becker| BCG.Perspectives Digital and social media have transformed industries as diverse as music and banking, and consumers and companies alike are benefiting from new channels, lower transaction costs, and a widening range of products and services. Digital innovation has the potential to …
Dave Muller| MLive DETROIT, MI – Rock Connections, a marketing company under the Rock Ventures umbrella of firms owned by Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert, is doing quite well. So well, in fact, that company president and CEO Victor You told MLive today that the company is looking to hire some 20 new employees a …
Bill Morris| The New York Times DETROIT — Back in the bad old days, office workers in downtown Detroit staged a macabre daily sporting event. At quitting time there would be a mad dash to the parking lot — eyes out for muggers, or worse — then, quick, fire up the car and race home …
Jeff Gilbert| CBS Detroit DETROIT — (WWJ) General Motors is bringing in three thousand information technology workers from Hewlett-Packard. Those workers had been assigned to the GM account. They will now become General Motors employees. It’s part of a deal that will also have General Motors purchasing HP technology and software. “These agreements with HP …
John Gallagher| Detroit Free Press Michigan’s unemployment rate in September improved slightly, edging downward one-tenth of a percentage point to 9.3%, though total payroll employment in the state dropped slightly because of the end of summer seasonal jobs. Data released Wednesday by the Michigan Department of Technology, Management & Budget showed that employers eliminated 13,000 …
Celeste Bott| Capital News Service LANSING – Manufacturing organizations are partnering after receiving a $2.19 million federal grant through the Advanced Manufacturing Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge. According to the Southeast Michigan Community Alliance (SEMCA), the grant will fund the Southeast Michigan Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Realization Cluster project—known as “the Cluster”—and connect manufacturers across the …
Tom Henderson| Crain’s Detroit Business Several Southeast Michigan organizations will share $2.19 million over the next three years to help would-be entrepreneurs and start-up companies find small- to medium-sized manufacturing firms to do low-volume, rapid-production prototyping and custom projects. The plan is to help new and emerging companies to turn ideas into products, and to …
Katherine Yung| Detroit Free Press University of Michigan economists expect more job growth in Michigan next year, led by manufacturing and the trade, transportation and utilities sector. “We do see some pickup in the economy going into 2013 and continuing through 2014,” George Fulton, an economist at the university’s Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics, wrote …
Partners including the Workforce Intelligence Network for Southeast Michigan (WIN), Detroit Regional Chamber, Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center, and National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, were awarded $2.19 million over three years through the federal Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge for Advanced Manufacturing.
Daniel Howes| The Detroit News In the battle for talent, apparently big cities really do rock. A new study by Michigan Future Inc., to be released later this month, concludes that incomes in large metro areas are markedly higher than in rural areas, and that a greater share of that income comes from the private …
The Workforce Intelligence Network (WIN) is partnering with the University of Michigan-Dearborn on the Annual Michigan Technology Climate Survey. Your participation and feedback are critical to this process. The survey, which can be completed in one 3-5 minute session, has two very important objectives: s To collect the opinions of executives across the State of …
CBS Detroit DETROIT (WWJ) – General Motors and the State of Michigan are expected to announce details on 2,000 new hi-tech jobs being created by GM in Michigan, with 1,500 of them coming to the Warren Tech Center. GM is out to bring more of its information technology operations in-house. Right now, most of the …
Threatened by a chronic shortage of engineers — exacerbated by years of industry restructuring — auto companies are having trouble filling job vacancies in Detroit now that the industry is coming back to health. That is particularly alarming for Detroit, a massive engineering hub for the entire industry. Lindsay Chappell|Workforce Carla Bailo winces at what …
Matt Roush| CBS Detroit OSHTEMO TOWNSHIP — Kalamazoo Valley Community College’s newest career academy, Mechatronics, is being renamed to better describe the training and type of employment that graduates can expect to attain. The new training program is now called the Mechatronic Systems Technician Academy. This training program will prepare students to perform the work of …
Employers, schools team up to attract, train skilled workers Christine Snyder| The Detroit News When Secure-24 announced Wednesday that it received an unspecified private equity growth investment and is looking to fill more than 70 information technology jobs, the Southfield-based company had a plan for recruiting more local applicants. The firm of 285 employees said …
Steven J. Markovich| The Atlantic One of the more serious and lasting consequences of the Great Recession and its aftermath has been the sharp rise in the number of long-term unemployed. Nearly 45 percent of the unemployed –or more than five million people — have now been out of work for six months or more. …
It took more than a year to land Mark Coticchia for the new position of chief innovation officer, but officials at Detroit’s Henry Ford Health System say it was time well-spent.They think they have hired the best person to make the health care organization a national leader in spinning off high-tech for-profit companies through its …
Matt Roush| CBS Detroit DETROIT — Comerica Bank’s Michigan Economic Activity Index surged ahead by 2.0 points in July, rising to a level of 107.9, its highest level since 2002. The July index reading is 48 points, or 88 percent, above the index cyclical low of 59.9 reached at the bottom of the last recession. …
Alexis C. Madrigal| The Atlantic Where I live in the Bay Area, there’s a certain glamour to Detroit. It’s the heart of what Bruce Sterling termed “dark euphoria.” “Dark Euphoria is what the twenty-teens feels like,” Sterling said. “Things are just falling apart, you can’t believe the possibilities, it’s like anything is possible, but you …
Nathan Bomey| Detroit Free Press A start-up Web referral business founded by Michigan natives recently moved from San Francisco to downtown Detroit. The two-year-old company, called Stik, has also been negotiating a venture capital investment from Silicon Valley investor Tim Draper and Michigan firms, including North Coast Technology Investors. Stik recently moved to an office …
Companies Trade In Hunch-Based Hiring for Computer Modeling Joseph Walker| The Wall Street Journal When looking for workers to staff its call centers, Xerox Corp. used to pay lots of attention to applicants who had done the job before. Then, a computer program told the printer and outsourcing company that experience doesn’t matter. The software …
Katherine Bindley| Huffington Post A new survey has found that hiring managers and recruiters believe it is easier to place a candidate who has a job — but who also has a criminal record — than a person who has been unemployed for more than two years. Bullhorn, the recruiting software company, conducted an anonymous …
The Detroit News The Michigan Economic Development Corporation Tuesday approved incentives that would create up to 226 jobs in Metro Detroit and another 160 statewide. The state approved a $500,000 grant so Alternative Automotive Technologies LLC would invest up to $5.7 million to relocate to an empty brownfield site in Troy, rehabilitate the property and …
Catherine Rampell| New York Times Adam Looney and Michael Greenstone at the Hamilton Project have put together a beautiful chart illustrating once again why college is worth it, despite the current fad of claiming otherwise. It shows the share of people at each income level who had various levels of educational attainment: Adam Looney and …
Brian J. O’Connor| Detroit Free Press Detroit — The U.S. labor secretary sounded the alarm on training workers for the new economy in an address Monday to a meeting of Michigan work force development specialists. “If current trends continue, the next generation of American workers will be less educated than the previous generation for the …
By Robin Erb & John Wisely| Detroit Free Press Michigan’s median household income rose by 2.4% in real terms in 2011 — at a time when incomes nationwide fell slightly. That growth, eighth best among states, contributes to what might be a halt in Michigan’s years-long slide into deeper poverty, according to preliminary numbers released …
David Muller| MLive DETROIT, MI – Michigan’s jobless rate has improved over its pitiful 14.2 percent rate three years ago but still remains high at 9 percent, and an association tasked with helping people land jobs in the state says the emphasis still needs to be on education. But higher learning needs to play a …
Chris Rizik| Xconomy A few years ago, there seemed to be a continental divide between the “old economy” and the “new economy,” and the state in which I live, Michigan, appeared to much of the world as the poster child for the former. Never mind that Michigan had been in the top 5 nationally for …
Michael Wayland| MLive Today celebrated a “new era” for its assembly plant in Flat Rock, Mich. The Dearborn-based automaker has assumed full management control over the newly renamed Flat Rock Assembly plant, which was previously known as AutoAlliance International under a joint venture with Mazda Motor Corp. “This facility has a very unique past and …
Brent Snavely| Detroit Free Press Christian Fuller grew up in Grand Haven poring over car magazines and working at Gage Chrysler during breaks from Michigan State University. “It really taught me how to deal with customers,” Fuller said of his experience as a service adviser at Gage. After college, Fuller moved to San Diego to …
Michael Martinez| The Detroit News A new natural gas pipeline would run through Michigan and create an unspecified number of jobs in the state, according to a proposal released Tuesday. Detroit-based DTE Energy Co., Canada-based Enbridge Inc. and Houston-based Spectra Energy Corp. plan to spend as much as $1.5 billion to jointly develop a pipeline …
Matt Roush| Detroit CBS ANN ARBOR — Dream big. That’s the main lesson that the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps program taught Harvey Elliott, one of the more than 80 inventors and entrepreneurs who participated in the eight-week program that culminated Thursday at the University of Michigan. “We were in a niche market, but we …
Tom Walsh| Detroit Free Press Four years ago, as the Great Recession was raining havoc on the U.S. economy and especially on auto-industry-dependent Michigan, 10 national and local foundations poured $100 million into an idea they called the New Economy Initiative for Southeastern Michigan. The aim was to diversify the Detroit region’s economy, add talent …
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Tom Henderson| Crain’s Detroit Business Comerica Bank’s Michigan Economic Activity Index climbed two points in June to 105.9, the highest level for the index since December 2002, and 46 points, or 77 percent, above the cyclical low of 59.9 hit several times in 2009. The index has averaged 102 points this year, 11 points above …
Amanda Lewan & Timothy Fisher| Deadline Detroit You may not hear it from the hum of computers, or the soft clicking of programmers. It won’t sound as loud as the roar of Ford’s first engine. But in the heart of downtown Detroit a new workforce is thriving. Ask anyone in the growing Detroit tech startup …
Matt Roush| CBS Detroit DETROIT — Last week, the first 25 participants in the “IT in the D” pilot program officially graduated, after spending two and a half months gaining real-world IT experience and receiving instruction from volunteer IT professionals at participating companies. Founded by a conglomerate of GalaxE.Solutions, Compuware Ventures, Quicken Loans, Fathead and …
Stephen Rapundalo| Detroit Free Press Business Leaders for Michigan recently unveiled its “New Michigan” strategy, an ambitious blueprint for the creation of 500,000 new jobs and personal income gains of $18,000 per resident by 2020. The group identified six Michigan assets that can figure prominently in an economic turnaround for the Great Lakes State. Michigan …
Alex Southern| GrowDetroit Detroit Hosts National Tech Conference Featuring Dan Gilbert, Steve Case, Jack Dorsey. What words come to mind when you think of Detroit? Some time ago, we asked this question of our GrowDetroit readership. Some answers reflected total hopelessness, while others conveyed promise and opportunity. We are inundated with tales of a Detroit …
Joseph Szczesny| The Oakland Press The Michigan Economic Development Corp. has approved incentives for two Oakland County companies planning to create new jobs. The MEDC-approved incentives of $235,730 are for Novi-based Cooper-Standard Automotive, which manufactures fluid handling, body sealing and anti-vibration systems for the automotive industry. Cooper proposes investing up to $3.5 million to expand …
Alisa Priddle| Detroit Free Press Hundreds gathered at an auto plant in Detroit today to mark the grand opening of Detroit Manufacturing Systems, which will employ hundreds of workers making auto parts, starting with instrument panels for the Ford Mustang. The plant in the Gateway Industrial Center in Detroit has plans to create about 500 …
Jim Totten| Daily Press & Argus Ann Arbor SPARK and the Michigan Works! Livingston Service Center have teamed up to assist employers and employees in the county. The two organizations recently signed an agreement to coordinate their work-force and economic development services to prevent duplication of their efforts. In the past two months, Michigan Works! employees …
Rochelle Riley|Detroit Free Press A coalition of Michigan community, social service and educational agencies spent seven months studying the state’s workforce and talent pool. What they found is this: Michigan is in trouble. A large number of Michigan adult workers with a willingness to work hard and an eagerness to learn don’t have the skills …
Matt Roush| CBS Detroit DETROIT — Compuware Corp. (Nasdaq:CPWR) announced the launch of a mainframe computing education and summer internship program with Wayne State University’s College of Engineering. The program is designed to introduce students to mainframe software development while helping cultivate and retain a vibrant high-tech talent pool within Metro Detroit. The first phase …
RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA|The New York Times After suffering the largest share of job losses in the recession, Americans with no more than a high school education have continued to lose jobs during the sputtering recovery while better-educated people have gained millions of jobs, according to a Georgetown University study. Over nearly five years of financial turmoil, Americans …
Jeff Green and Mark Clothier| Crains Detroit Andrew Watt says he figures the shelf life of an auto engineer looking for a job in Michigan is about three days. Companies that wait longer than that will have to get back in line for the next candidate. “If their skills are even on the edges of …
John Gallagher and Greta Guest|The Detroit Free Press Public relations professional David Lilly left New York City two years ago for a downtown Detroit neighborhood that was “a pretty lonely place,” he recalls. Since then, more than 10,000 workers have descended on downtown, with hundreds snatching up available rental housing or buying properties as their …
Alisa Priddle|The Detroit Free Press Automakers want the best navigation, infotainment and driver-assist systems for their vehicles, and supplier Elektrobit is expanding its Michigan presence to meet that demand. The Finnish software and engineering company, listed on the NASDAQ QMX in Helsinki since 1998, expanded into the automotive sector in 2004 with the acquisition of …
Sean Weinberg|Huffington Post There’s a disconnect between employers and the unemployed. While the unemployment rate stands at 8.2 percent, employers — and small businessesin particular — still have unfilled job openings because they say they cannot find people with the right skills to fill those open positions. As a result, job seekers have an overall negative …
Sarah Schmid|Xconomy On the heels of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office opening up its first-ever satellite location in Detroit, Wayne State’s law school has announced it will offer a free patent procurement clinic to qualifying local entrepreneurs. It’s the only pro bono patent law procurement clinic in Michigan. The clinic, located in Midtown at 471 Palmer, is staffed …
Matt Roush|CBS Detroit PLYMOUTH — The Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center Thursday announced the creation of a new “Proud to Manufacture in Michigan” program for state manufacturers. The program’s goal is to showcase Michigan’s manufacturers along with their products and highlight the contributions of the manufacturing community to the public. The program also provides social media …
Lizzy Alfs|AnnArbor.com Looking to tap into Ann Arbor’s unmatched talent pool, a Livonia-based software company recently signed a deal to open a satellite office in downtown. WorkForce Software — which provides workforce management solutions to more than 200 clients — opened a 1,500-square-foot research-and-development office at 205 N. Main St. on Tuesday. The second-floor office is located …
Matt Roush|CBS Detroit SUNNYVALE, Calif. — The job Web site Simply Hired last week reported a 9 percent increase in help wanted openings in early August compared to a year ago in Detroit, but a 5 percent decline from a year ago in Grand Rapids. The number of openings in Detroit, the nation’s 11th biggest …
Matt Roush|CBS Detroit DETROIT — Hundreds of software app developers, small businesses, enterprise-level firms, government entities, educational institutions and Michigan residents came together to learn about the emerging mobile and wireless technologies currently available for personal and professional use, at the “Mobile Moves Michigan: Driving Our Economy with Mobile Technologies” conference, July 30-31 at Motor City Casino. …
Top scholars say students need mix of abilities Sarah D. Sparkes|Education Week The modern workplace and lifestyle demand that students balance cognitive, personal, and interpersonal abilities, but education policy discussions have not defined those skills well, says a report released last week by scholars from the National Research Council. A “who’s who” team of experts from the …
Dale Buss|The Detroit News Oakland County’s Medical Main Street remains more of a geographic abstraction than a clearly defined location such as the Silicon Valley in California or retailing’s Miracle Mile in Chicago. But the county’s 4-year-old effort to attract health care companies is gaining momentum as well as national and international attention. Twenty-six companies …
CapitalGains When Olympic athletes and internationally recognized education innovators such as the Khan Academy are using your products, something very right is happening. That’s the state of affairs at Okemos-based TechSmith. The screen capture and recording software company has been growing since 1995, though they’re experiencing a notable growth spurt as of late. “There has been …
Shaun Byron|MLive BURTON, MI – Laurie Moncrieff said she doesn’t refer to her business as a tool and die shop anymore. Moncrieff, who owns the Burton-based Schmald Tool & Die Inc., said she operates an advanced manufacturing company. “Basically, due to outsourcing and a lot of foreign competition, we reinvented our company,” she said. “Starting in 2001, …
Katherine Yung|Detroit Free Press Full employment — when everybody who wants a job can find one in a reasonable time — is something you’d expect to see in places such as North Dakota and Texas, not Michigan. Ann Arbor is getting closer to this economic nirvana. Help-wanted signs have popped up in the windows of …
Jaclyn Trop|The Detroit News Michigan fell the hardest during the recession, but it’s bouncing back better than the rest of the country. While economic uncertainty in Europe is creating a cloud over the U.S. economy, and the state’s unemployment rate has ticked up two-tenths of a percentage point to 8.6 percent in the past two …
Asma Khalid|NPR Rebeca Espinal admits with a shy smile that she’s a straight-A math student. She’s a high school graduate who dreamed of going to college. Instead, Espinal, 17, is working in a Charlotte, N.C., factory that makes gas turbines and generators. She is an apprentice with the German company Siemens. “I was planning on …
Matt Roush|CBS Detroit DETROIT — The newly launched D:hive, a hub for resources to live, work, engage or start a business in Detroit, announced Thursday that it has doubled the capacity for the fall session of Build, its business and project planning class for micro-entrepreneurs. D:hive created Build in response to the growing interest in social, cultural and …
Matt Roush|CBS Detroit LANSING — The Michigan Economic Development Corp. announced that three companies were approved for incentives by the Michigan Strategic Fund through the Michigan Business Development Program to support their expansions in the state. The projects are expected to generate up to $37.1 million in investments and add 232 new jobs in Michigan. Said MEDC …
Bryce G. Hoffman|The Detroit News Chrysler Group LLC is considering investing nearly $198 million at its Mack Avenue I Engine Plant in Detroit, a move that could create as many as 250 jobs at the factory. That would more than double the number of hourly jobs at the plant, which now employees 144 workers. The …
John Gallagher|Detroit Free Press Another of Dan Gilbert’s affiliated companies appears ready to move to downtown Detroit, bringing another 1,500 employees. Title Source, a provider of title insurance, property valuation and settlement services, and Rock Ventures, the umbrella entity for Gilbert’s investments, have scheduled a news conference for Wednesday morning to announce the move to the …
Tom Henderson|Crain’s Detroit For at least one city, Detroit has become a model of entrepreneurial development. Dismayed by a study that showed the Cincinnati region ranked behind its metropolitan peers in venture capital attraction and investment, executives at the consumer products giant Procter & Gamble wanted to figure out a way they and other corporate citizens in …
Michael Martinez|The Detroit News Detroit— The smile on Elantis Hall’s face told the story. Hall beamed ear to ear Friday morning as she accepted her diploma in the inaugural class of an intensive information technology boot camp at the Wayne County Community College District’s downtown campus. Hall, a 34-year-old mother of four from Detroit, entered the program March …
Richard Florida|theAtlanticCities Is Detroit becoming a suburb? That’s the question at the heart of this provocative piece in the Detroit News, written by Karen Dumas, former press secretary for Detroit Mayor Dave Bing. She writes: On one hand, you see a “new” Detroit. Young, white, educated and employed are the characteristics of those who are taking a chance …
LANSING, MI — Job seekers don’t have to leave their house to take part in career fairs hosted by the state of Michigan. The state is hosting a free virtual career fair from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on July 25 to connect job seekers with recruiters from businesses like Auto-Owners Insurance, Penske Truck Leasing …
Matt Roush|CBS Detroit COSTA MESA, Calif. — NWP Services Corp., a provider of utility management, resident and property operation services, announced the opening of a new office in Ann Arbor, which includes 25 new staff hired from the local community. The Ann Arbor office will support NWP’s new SmartSource service, which enables multifamily portfolio managers to outsource routine …
Gerry Roston|Xconomy I recently had the honor of being interviewed for an Xconomy article. When I finished reading the article, I read a number of the related posts. One of them, “Five Things Entrepreneurs and Innovators Can Do To Invigorate Michigan’s Economy,” bothered me because, in my opinion, it leaves one thinking that Michigan is completely missing the boat …
Matt Roush|CBS Detroit FLINT — Orbit Innovation Entrepreneurship Development Training, a program teaching entrepreneurs and small business owners how to start or grow a technology business, will soon be “launching” in Flint. “Participants will develop an effective business plan, learn how to pitch their idea, and understand how to succeed,” said Neil Sheridan, director of Kettering University TechWorks. “We will …
Chad Halcom|Crain’s Canadian natural gas and electricity retailer Just Energy Group Inc. could hire another 50 to 55 employees to staff a new call center in Bingham Farms, over and above the 75 already hired in advance of a ceremonial opening today. Mississauga, Ontario-based Just Energy (NYSE:JE and TSX:JE) expects to create a total of 130 new …
Amy Chulik|TheHiringSite While it’s not safe to wear your “The U.S. Economy is Awesome” t-shirt yet, the jobs outlook for the second half of 2012 shows continued improvement over 2011, according toCareerBuilder’s 2012 U.S. Mid-Year Job Forecast, which was conducted by Harris Interactive© and included more than 2,000 hiring managers and human resource professionals. Who’s Planning to Hire? …
Neil G. Ruiz|Brookings Encompassing both immigration and unemployment, the debate over the H-1B temporary high-skilled work visa program remains contentious. H-1B visa holders have the potential to provide specialized skills that keep our American companies globally competitive, although some contend their presence hurts native workers. Senior Policy Analyst and Associate Fellow Neil G. Ruiz says …
Richard Dobbs et al|McKinsey Global Institute Over the past three decades, as developing economies industrialized and began to compete in world markets, a global labor market started taking shape. As more than one billion people entered the labor force, a massive movement from “farm to factory” sharply accelerated growth of productivity and per capita GDP …
Erik W. Robelen|Education Week When the gender gap in STEM education is discussed, it usually centers on the lower proportion of women pursuing college majors and careers in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math. But some recent data suggest STEM achievement disparities persist at the K-12 level, based on results from the Advanced …
Tom Walsh|Detroit Free Press Scott Lowe’s story line sounds almost too corny to be true. A real live Okie from Muskogee, Okla., comes to the gritty Motor City, hoping to make his mark as a young entrepreneur and help breathe new life into a forsaken factory town. Lowe, 22, does indeed hail from Muskogee, but …
Melissa Anders|MLive Detroit is now home to the nation’s first satellite patent office, a nod to the city and Michigan’s leadership in innovation. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially opened the Elijah J. McCoy Satellite Office in Detroit on Friday. The office will employ about 120 people to help speed up the patent process, which faces a backlog …
Vince Bond, contributing|Automotive News DETROIT (Reuters) — General Motors Co., a pioneer in outsourcing information technology, said it is beginning to reverse that trend with plans to at least double the number of in-house IT experts over the next three years. GM now outsources about 90 percent of its IT services and provides 10 percent …
Innovation is the lifeblood of any company. It is what sets a company apart from their competition, allows them to charge more for a product or service, and helps them grow. A new program established by the Institute for Research on Labor, Employment, and the Economy (IRLEE) at the University of Michigan gives businesses access …
Katherine Yung|Detroit Free Press Amazon.com appears to be in the early stages of trying to create a software development center in Detroit, according to two job listings from the Internet retailer. Having a high-tech Amazon presence in Detroit would be a huge boost for efforts to transform the long-battered city into a tech hub. It would also …
John Gallagher|Detroit Free Press The new U.S. Patent and Trademark satellite office opening in Detroit this week will cut red tape and help spur innovation in local industry, a panel of business and legal experts said today. Speaking at Stroh River Place on Detroit’s east riverfront, the home of the new satellite patent office, the …
The Detroit News The Society of Manufacturing Engineers said Monday it is working with the U.S. Army to certify military personnel for civilian manufacturing jobs. Under the pilot program, the Dearborn-based group is helping the Army get service members in highly specialized and technical engineering fields industry-recognized credentials that could assist them in landing manufacturing jobs after …
CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER|The Detroit News Washington — U.S. employers advertised more jobs in May than April, a hopeful sign after three months of weak hiring. Job openings rose to a seasonally adjusted 3.6 million, the Labor Department said Tuesday. That’s up from 3.4 million in April. It’s also the second-highest level in nearly four years, just behind March’s 3.7 …
Amy Elliott Bragg At its heart, the Workforce Intelligence Network is about connecting the dots between workforce agencies, academic institutions, and businesses so they can share resources, develop skills and collaborate to solve problems. It’s easy (and true) to say that Michigan needs more skilled workers and trained talent. But training doesn’t grow on trees; it requires …
Lisa Katz and Rebecca Cohen According to a recent Manpower survey of more than 1,300 U.S. employers, the jobs that are most difficult to fill nationwide include skilled trades, engineers, and IT professionals among others. Patterns are similar in Southeast Michigan, where engineering and IT jobs have topped the list, with various skilled trades positions, such as welders, …
Trying to help returning veterans find work in Southeast Michigan? Below are some great facts about this highly skilled population that is ready to apply its military experience here on the Southeast Michigan talent front. Read on for a listing of in-demand occupations that may be relevant for returning vets. (Need reasons to hire a Vet? Here …
Michael B. Sauter and Lisa A. Nelson| 24/7 Wall St. A manufacturing-led recovery The U.S. economy grew for the second straight year in 2011, although at a slower pace than in 2010. According to figures released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the nation’s gross domestic product increased 1.6% last year, down from 3.1% in …
KARL HENKEL|The Detroit News Health care has replaced the auto industry as Michigan’s jobs leader, but the automotive capital of the world remains the economic engine that drives the state. In 2011, health care and social assistance generated 543,900 payroll jobs to place first among Michigan’s private industries; the auto industry and other manufacturers finished second with …
Matt Roush|CBS Detroit MILWAUKEE, Wis. — The Detroit-Warren-Livonia Metropolitan Statistical Area will be one of the strongest job markets in the country in the July-through-September third quarter, according to the quarterly Employment Outlook Survey from the Milwaukee, Wis.-based temporary help firm Manpower Inc. From July to September, 27 percent of Detroit-area employers interviewed plan to …
Erik Proulx|Forbes Like a significant percentage of Americans, I waste huge amounts of time trolling various social networks. 99% of what I read is truly useless, stealing hours upon hours that I will never get back. But every so often I come across something that is worthy of sharing. Or, writing a Forbes post about. Today’s …
Success in business is a combination of what you know, who you know, and what you do about it. This is the premise behind the Workforce Intelligence Network. WIN is a new Southeast Michigan initiative led by 7 Michigan Works! Agencies and 8 community colleges in 9 counties across the region. The New Economy Initiative provided …
By TOM MURRAY “What you see here at Soulbrain,” says CEO Allen Ibara, “is a technology transfer. But instead of going from the U.S. to Asia, it’s coming from Asia to the U.S. It’s my position that batteries are going to be a very important part of our future … Batteries are a big deal and …
By LISA KATZ AND REBECCA COHEN We keep hearing about the growing prevalence of information technology companies and jobs in Southeast Michigan, comparing our beloved D and its burbs to high-tech talent meccas like Austin, TX, Charlotte, NC, and San Jose, CA. Does our region live up to this hype? When you compare monikers like ”Research …
By Amy Elliott Bragg| Fill in the blank: The future of Southeast Michigan is _________. There are dozens of good answers. Energy super-efficient vehicles. Water technology. Life sciences and biotech. Clean energy, green building, and sustainable enterprise. You could even make a compelling case for the IT industry. After all, every other sector — established and …
Neal Conan, Host|Talk of the Nation More and more factory work in the United States is being done by machines, and the industry increasingly relies on highly skilled workers. NPR’s Adam Davidson explores the shifts in the manufacturing industry, and Tim Aeppel of the Wall Street Journal discusses the implications for the U.S. economy. Transcript: This is …
By Dustin Dwyer|Marketplace-Tech Kai Ryssdal: For all the talk about the long, slow decline of American manufacturing, the fact of the matter is that lots of stuff is still made in the U.S.A. That includes places like Michigan, where reports of manufacturing’s death turn out to have been greatly exaggerated. Because even if you drive …
By Rod Meloni|ClickOnDetroit DETROIT - Our economic winter has been so long and so hard few among us are anxious to declare they’ve seen that first robin of spring. I mean everyone in this town knows one or more people laid off from good, high paying jobs with few good prospects on the horizon. …
The Detroit Hub n the span of one week, monumental progress has been made in Detroit development. This week wasn’t about stately buildings, but about improving the shopping options of Detroiters. Two of the biggest complaints about the city of Detroit – that it doesn’t have a major big box retailer and a chain …
By Seth Hoy|Immigration Impact While some states pushed for punitive immigration measures over the last year—measures designed to drive immigrants away —others, like those in Michigan, were busy putting together a plan that welcomes immigrants and their revitalizing power to the state. This month, leaders in Michigan—including state Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit) and U.S. …
By David Leopold|The Huffington Post What do Senators Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), and Chris Coons (D-Del.) have in common? Not much when it comes to their voting records. But today these Republican and Democratic Senators did something we haven’t seen in long time — they showed uncommon bipartisan leadership by …
By Karl Henkel | The Detroit News Detroit broke ground Thursday on a project that promises the city’s first large-scale grocer in two decades, hundreds of jobs and a shopping center along the Detroit border that may help bridge the longstanding gap between the city and suburbs. The ceremony was five years in the making, …
By Katherine Yung | Detroit Free Press Of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the U.S., metro Detroit had the second-largest percentage gain in manufacturing jobs over the last two years, according to a report today from the Brookings Institution. From the first quarter of 2010 to the fourth quarter of 2011, the number of …
By Karl Henkel | The Detroit News Michigan’s improving economy is expected to reduce the teen summer unemployment rate by more than 2 percentage points this year from a year ago, the state predicted Tuesday. From June to August, 6,700 more teens will find work, lowering the teen jobless rate to 26.4 percent this year …
By Kate Davidson | Changing Gears Measuring the success of retraining programs used to be straightforward. You just looked at how many people got better paying jobs. Now the emphasis is shifting from how job seekers benefit to how taxpayers benefit too. That’s because some federal funds for workforce development are shrinking, and local agencies …
LANSING, MI — Michigan can expect steady, modest economic improvement in the next few years as employers add jobs, personal incomes rise and more people buy new cars. That’s according to forecasts from economists at the University of Michigan and Senate and House fiscal agencies, presented at the state’s biannual revenue estimating conference on Wednesday. “Michigan is …
By Ron Dewey | CBS Local DETROIT (WWJ) - Michigan Governor Rick Snyder says several companies in the auto industry that left Michigan may soon be returning. Because of a mismatch between employer expectations and the skill set of cheap labor, Snyder said, many companies are left without what he calls the most important trait of …
By Karl Henkel | The Detroit News Michigan’s April unemployment rate fell by two-tenths of a percentage point, down to 8.3 percent from the March rate of 8.5 percent, thanks to a stable workforce and a growing number of residents finding jobs. April’s rate, down more than two full percentage points from the same month …
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