 Education. Employment. Opportunities.
Watch On the Job to learn more about current and future job opportunities
in Alabama's growing economy. Tune in to your local Alabama Public
Television channel to see how to get skills needed to land the job you
want.
On The Job returns Sept. 21 at 2 p.m. after APT pledge programming. The
Alabama Educational Television Commission was established by the Alabama Legislature
in 1953. Alabama became the first state
in the nation with an educational television network.
Alabama Public
Television made its first broadcast as a network in April 1955.
Alabama Public Television was a model for other states in the nation
and for television broadcasters in other countries. Twenty-five other
states copied Alabama's system of operation to provide service through
multiple, linked television stations.
To view previous On The Job videos, click online at www.onthejobtv.org
On The Job posters encourage job seekers to learn more about careers and how to get them.
To get posters to display, contact On The Job via email: feedback@onthejobtv.org
Or mail a request to:
On The Job TV
15 Technology Court
Montgomery, AL 36116
Telephone: 1.866.855.1916
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Alabama a leader in e-government
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Alabama is the only state government honored by CIO Magazine as a leader in e-government in the magazine's annual CIO 100 list. The list honors the top 100 institutions that exemplify the highest level of excellence in information technology (IT).
Alabama deployed many systems to improve e-government
services delivered to citizens of Alabama in the areas of education,
business transactions and Alabama government operation.
The projects
implemented as part of Gov. Bob Riley's "Plan for Change" include GIS
technology for viewing a virtual Alabama and getting infrastructure
data in a visualization tool networking and video conferencing
technology for distance learning and 130 online e-government services
delivered through the Alabama.gov portal. Among the benefits, in 2007,
64 percent of home-builder licenses were renewed online with the
Alabama Home Builders Licensure Board. In June 2007, the Alabama
Department of Revenue had 336 users file for tax extensions online,
which resulted in payments totaling more than $7.2 million, compared
with 49 users filing $804,000 in payments in 2006.
To read Alabama's full Winner Profile, click here.
More information on the award and a complete list of other CIO 100 winners is available online at www.cio.com/cio100.
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Labor Day a time to honor American worker
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For many of us, Labor Day is a long weekend marking
the end of summer and a last opportunity to take advantage of the warm
weather. But for more than 100 years, Labor Day has also been a time to
honor the American worker, and during this holiday, it is a good time
to see how Alabama workers are doing. ...
...One of the main selling points for Alabama is our
workforce, one of the best in the world. The Alabama Industrial
Development Training is responsible for making sure companies have the
trained and skilled workers they need to thrive. AIDT has been rated as
one of the world's best training programs, and the only state program
certified by national and international standards for quality
management. The workforce system AIDT includes recruitment, assessment
and training of potential employees, development and production of
job-related training materials, provision of training facilities, and
delivery of job-specific services. It is a remarkable program. ...
To read this article, click here.
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Construction on Robotics Center set to begin this fall
from The (Athens) News-Courier
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A Huntsville representative of the Alabama
Industrial Development Training said the state should be ready to break
ground for the Advanced Technology Robotics Research and Development
Complex in October or November.
Ronnie Smith, Huntsville AIDT Center
manager, attended the Tuesday Limestone County Commission meeting in
which commissioners voted on a state request for preliminary and final
approval of the two-lot U.S. Robotics Institutional Subdivision. The
center will be located on property purchased from Delphi several years
ago in front of Plant 22.
To read the full article, click here.
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Career opportunities available with 14 employers
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AIDT is currently assisting employers to fill jobs noted on the map above.
Links to all the job opportunities are available by clicking the map above or this Jobs in Alabama link.
To learn about employment with AIDT, click the AIDT Jobs link.
To apply for training to qualify for one of these positions, click online or contact your local Alabama Career Center office and a location identified in the advertisement. Detailed Career Center information, including addresses and telephone numbers, is available here.
For information about all AIDT training and recruitment, go to our website, www.aidt.edu. |
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 Alabama's number-one business incentive provides recruitment, assessment, and training for employers creating jobs in Alabama. As Alabama's economy evolves, AIDT services continuously adapt to meet the needs of aerospace, automotive, chemical processing and bio-technology manufacturers, as well as the wide range of traditional industrial groups such as food processing, distribution/warehousing, technical services, and others.
A close working relationship with each client results in development of consistently effective processes for recruitment, selection and training of skilled and motivated employees. AIDT also provides leadership development, industrial maintenance assessment, safety assistance, process improvement assessment, and other services.
AIDT's mission for new and expanding employers creating jobs in Alabama is to recruit and train personnel to provide quality workforce development and to expand citizens' opportunities through the jobs that are created. AIDT has provided thousands of skilled, motivated employees to Alabama industries since 1971. It became the first state workforce training entity in the world to earn international ISO 9001:2000 certification for its quality management system and has been consistently ranked one of the top state workforce training agencies in the United States.
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Many job seekers are unprepared for job interviews.
Some don't dress appropriately.
Some have poor hygiene.
Some have little or no communication skills.
Without skills to present themselves better, many people fail to get the job.
AIDT provides Interview T.I.P.S. (Training to Improve Presentation Skills) to solve these and other problems cited by Alabama business leaders and AIDT project managers who interview job seekers.
Sessions scheduled:
September 30 in Selma
Pre-registration is required.
Click here to register online.
Are you prepared for
your next job interview?
Do you need computer skills
to get a job?
Have you heard of diversity and sexual harassment prevention, but you're not sure what they mean?
Skills@Work provides information needed
to answer your questions.
Sessions are available
each Tuesday and Thursday:
December 2-January 20
from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at
AIDT Center-Montgomery
15 Technology Court
Skills@Work training is available
at no cost for job seekers from high school age through adulthood.
Pre-registration is required.
Click here to register online or
call Connie Sator at 334-280-4453.
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Maritime Careers
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Maritime Welding Classes available in Mobile
Click on the ad to apply online for training.
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