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Talent Enhancement

Michigan Shifting Gears helps professionals, veterans transition to new careers

April 11, 2012 Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Participants in Michigan Shifting Gears, a unique career training program developed by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation and Sensei Inc., don’t fit the typical image of student trainees.  Most are seasoned professionals who’ve enjoyed successful careers in big Michigan businesses – businesses that took a direct hit in the global economic downturn.   Now they’re faced [...]

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Tagged as: career training, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Jobs, Michigan Shifting Gears, talent, veterans

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Need a short-term job? Michigan asparagus growers are ready to hire

April 9, 2012 Agri-Business

It’s only April, but Michigan trees are budding, flowers are blooming, and asparagus is popping up early on the state’s produce farms.  Michigan’s asparagus growers are looking to hire hundreds of farm workers in the next two weeks to begin harvesting this year’s crop. To help growers find the workers they need, the State of [...]

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Tagged as: agriculture jobs, asparagus growers, career opportunities, Job Fair, Jobs, Michigan asparagus, talent

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Pure Michigan is ripe for young professionals

February 8, 2012 Talent Enhancement
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By Christopher Sell Chris serves as a member of the Career Services team at Western Michigan University, and is an alumnus of WMU (’07) and Michigan State University (’10). In his spare time, he loves to go running, camping, and backpacking throughout western and northern Michigan. To learn more about his professional work, visit www.christophersell.com or [...]

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Michiganders coming back home to growing economy

February 2, 2012 Community Development

With Michigan leading the nation in new job growth and the Federal Reserve projecting Michigan is on track to lead all other states in job growth over the next six months, a growing number of Michiganders are seeing the opportunities of coming home. MSNBC this week trumpeted the state’s economic growth during an interview with [...]

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Tagged as: Jobs, Michigan Advantage, talent, training

Initiative challenges tomorrow’s leaders to participate in Detroit’s revitalization

January 27, 2012 Events

The Collaborative Group, a Michigan-based nonprofit dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship, has launched and is accepting applications for Challenge Detroit, an urban revitalization project for one of the most significant cities in the world. Challenge Detroit is a national initiative focused on revitalizing Detroit by attracting innovative leaders to bring their intellectual capital and talents to [...]

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Tagged as: career opportunities, Events, Jobs, talent

Michigan planning 1st virtual career fair for IT, tech talent

January 24, 2012 Events

Michigan, one of the first states in the nation to make attracting and developing talent for existing job needs a major priority, will host the first state-sponsored virtual career fair Feb. 15 to connect talented IT and high tech professionals with employers. MiVirtualCareerFair: IT and High Tech will provide a platform for Michigan businesses to [...]

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Tagged as: Events, high tech jobs, Job Fair, Jobs, talent, tech jobs

Xconomist: What should you study now to prepare for 10 years from now?

January 18, 2012 Great Companies

Xconomy, the online news and events organization, released a report asking 22 of the nation’s top innovators, entrepreneurs and investors: what should students be studying now to prepare for 10 years from now?  The report poses the question in order to gain a unique view into the future at a time of breakneck technological change and increasing [...]

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Tagged as: career opportunities, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, high tech jobs, Jobs, talent, tech jobs

State honors Quality Dairy’s Lisa Benson for veterans’ service

January 6, 2012 Economic Development

LANSING, Mich. — The state’s Veteran’s Services Division today honored Lisa Benson, HR Recruiter for Lansing-based Quality Dairy Company, for outstanding efforts to help veterans find employment, making the company one of mid-Michigan’s top “vet-friendly” employers. “We are in the business of helping Michigan’s returning heroes find jobs, and we can only do that with [...]

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Ready for a job you love? Consider Michigan Shifting Gears

December 15, 2011 Entrepreneurship & Innovation

They felt like consolation prizes, facing rejection, unmet needs and constrained relationships. So they each risked peeking through a new door and now enjoy lives that seemed unimaginable just months earlier.  Just ask Cathy Lewis, now talent acquisition consultant for Fifth Third Bank in Southfield. She worked at Comerica Bank until her position was moved [...]

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Tagged as: Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Jobs, Shifting Gears, talent, training

ONE CLICK, THOUSANDS OF JOBS

December 6, 2011 Talent Enhancement

We’re excited to introduce you to Pure Michigan Talent Connect, the state of Michigan’s new web-based talent matchmaking site and central hub for talent, employers and educators announced on Dec. 1 by Governor Snyder. Nearly 80,000 current jobs are featured on the site along with career exploration tools. The site allows job seekers the ability to create [...]

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