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The San Diego Workforce Partnership has received proclamations by the San Diego City Council and County Board of Supervisors naming September Workforce Development Month and recognizing SDWP’s leadership in workforce development and providing work-readiness training to San Diegans for 40

The Sept. 18 Workforce Investment Board (WIB) meeting was generously hosted by Qualcomm’s Thinkabit Lab. Ed Hidalgo, senior director of staffing at Qualcomm and a WIB member, shared details of the company’s new outreach program, which provides hands-on lab experiences

Today, the California Employment Development Department (EDD) reported a decline in unemployment and an increase in employment numbers for San Diego from July 2014 to August 2014. Highlights from the report include: • San Diego’s unemployment rate dropped 0.4 percent

Earlier this week, San Diego Workforce Partnership CEO Peter Callstrom joined a bi-partisan delegation of more than 100 business, community and elected leaders on an advocacy trip to Washington D.C. SDWP Policy Board Chair and County Supervisor, Ron Roberts, and

CONNECT2Careers (C2C) experienced another successful summer connecting hundreds of youth with jobs. Youth will mark the winding down of the 2014 program at the C2C End-Of-Summer Celebration event on Sept. 16 at Junior Achievement San Diego. C2C connected 334 youth

Earlier this month, the California Workforce Association (CWA) annual Meeting of the Minds conference brought together workforce professionals from the Department of Labor’s Region 6 (California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Arizona and Nevada) along with professionals from other states across

Ryan walked into the South Metro Career Center in January 2014 with an uplifting and very pleasant demeanor about him. As he began a conversation with a one of the center’s career agents, Ryan expressed that he had some concerns

Krista Dupps is an attorney with The Lawyer in Blue Jeans Group. She is also a member of SDWP’s Workforce Investment Board (WIB). Here we caught up with Dupps about what motivated her to join the WIB and what workforce

September has been named Workforce Development Month in the County and City of San Diego. The San Diego Workforce Partnership will receive proclamations by the City Council and County Board of Supervisors recognizing its leadership in workforce development and providing

Platform to Employment (P2E) is an innovative, nationally recognized initiative that focuses on the need for long-term unemployed (LTU) individuals to return to work and employers’ need to build a strong workforce. First launched in 2011 by The WorkPlace in