Learn how to build a career with On The Job
| Auburn University McWhorter School of Building Science Professor Paul Holley, left,
shows On The Job host Bobby Jon Drinkard how to use a state-of-the-art surveying machine.
Seeking information needed to become a builder or a contractor, On The Job spent a day at Auburn University with one of the strongest Building Science programs in the nation.
Tune in Sunday at 2 p.m. on your local APT channel to visit the McWhorter School of Building Science. Established in 1947, McWhorter School is the second oldest construction education program in the United States. The program has more than 3,000 graduates located worldwide, including many who lead the construction industry in southeastern United States.
On The Job also visits with the Masonry Program at Wallace State Community College in Selma to learn more about jobs and educational opportunities related to the construction industry.
Previous On The Job videos are available 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 for display, contact On The Job via email: feedback@onthejobtv.org
 Mail your request to:On The Job TV
15 Technology Court
Montgomery, AL 36116
Telephone: 1.866.855.1916
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2008 Economic Summit for Alabama Leaders
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 Focusing on Alabama's role as a leader in regional, national and global economies, The University of Alabama's Culverhouse College of Commerce and the Business Council of Alabama will present the 2008 Economic Summit for Alabama leaders on Oct. 15, 2008.
Visit www.cba.ua.edu/econsummit or www.bcatoday.org to read and download a Summit Registration Form.
For more information, contact:
- Bill Gerdes, Culverhouse College for Commerce, University of Alabama, 205.348.8318
- Marty Sullivan, Business Council of Alabama, 334.240.8718
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Strategies for Sustainable Economic Development
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Going Green: Strategies for Sustainable Economic Development is a two-day course offered by the Economic & Community
Development Institute (ECDI), a partnership of Auburn University and
the Alabama Cooperative Extension System.
On
November 5-6, ECDI will assemble sustainable economic development
experts and leading economic and community developers at the Alabama
4-H Center in Columbiana. These individuals will share innovative ideas
and practices based upon proven success in energy conscious and
environmentally-friendly development. Participants will have opportunities to ask questions and engage in
constructive dialogue about the challenges, possibilities and potential
of going green.
For more information about the course, click here or contact Allyson Martin at ahm0007@auburn.edu or (334) 844-3685.
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Alabama unemployment rate falls to 4.9 percent in August
from Alabama Department of Industrial Relations
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Unemployment in Alabama declined to 4.9 percent in August, compared to 5.1 percent in July. The Alabama jobless rate in August 2007 was
3.6 percent.
"The number of employed Alabamians increased by 3,200 from July to August, while there were over 3,800 fewer unemployed," says Tom Surtees, Alabama Department of Industrial Relations
director.
The national unemployment rate rose to 6.1 percent in August, compared to 5.7 percent in July.
Over the year, there was a net gain of 5,500 wage and salary jobs in Alabama. The majority of the annual growth occurred in the government sector (+5,500), followed by professional and business services (+5,300), and construction (+1,100). The majority of job losses occurred in manufacturing (-8,300)....
To read the full article, click here to download it from DIR Press Releases.
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Alabama students preparing for future success
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 Where will the next generation of top professionals come from? By 2014 there will be approximately 55 million job openings in America. The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that 60 percent of these career opportunities will be the direct result of employers having to replace retiring employees and those transferring to different careers.
More than 3,000 Alabama high school students from schools all across the state are already preparing themselves for future success. These students, along with their parents, teachers, and local school advisors, are traveling to Montgomery next week for two days of rigorous leadership study at the 2008 Joint Leadership Development Conference (JLDC), September 29-30. Students attending this year's conference at the Renaissance Montgomery Hotel and Convention Center will have an opportunity to participate in more than 20 different workshops and interactive activities.
JLDC, which began nine years ago, is focused on preparing students for leadership opportunities. During this event, Alabama's eight different Career and Technical Education Student Organizations (CTSOs) team up to sponsor one united event, which concentrates on teaching students about upcoming career opportunities, financial literacy, postsecondary learning, and leadership development.
To learn more about educational opportunities offered by Alabama's career tech programs, contact Craig Collins, Alabama CTSO Coordinator, at (334) 242-9109 or ccollins@alsde.edu
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Recruitment ads for 15 employers are available this week
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Training and job applications are currently available with 15 of the 96 employers AIDT is currently serving. Click the map or Jobs in Alabama link to apply for jobs or training to qualify for one of these positions. You may also 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 jobs currently open with AIDT, click AIDT Jobs link or visit our website online. |
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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.
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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