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Business commenter says workforce partnership expanded access to skilled candidates
Summary
A commenter representing a business said a workforce partnership has helped the company reach potential employees and established an internship program to train workers, addressing a local skills gap.
A commenter representing a local business said a workforce partnership has helped the company reach potential employees and create an internship pipeline.
"It's an uphill battle to get people with with the right skills. Really, people that want to go to work. This helps out a lot. This partnership has benefited our business, as far as reaching reaching people that we might not, have reached. We really developed a, a program that takes interns and kinda shows them really what, what our side of the industry does," the commenter said.
The commenter characterized the arrangement as a way to both connect with jobseekers and expose interns to the company's operations. The provided transcript segment includes only this statement and does not identify the partnership by name, specify participating agencies, list funding sources or record any formal vote or motion related to the program.
Because the transcript excerpt contains only the comment above, there is no record in the provided text of follow-up direction to staff, contractual awards or budgetary decisions tied to the partnership.
If the meeting record contains additional agenda items or later references to the partnership, those were not included in the supplied transcript segment.
