May 27, 2020 admin California Community Colleges’ contract education units, which deliver customized employee training for businesses in their communities, kicked into rapid-response mode to help businesses feeling the impact of the new coronavirus, known as COVID-19. With social distancing measures in place and many employees working remotely from home, contract education professionals... read more →
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November 19, 2019 admin Leave a comment In his book about the flipside of technological advances, author Marc Goodman writes that the U.S. government, in 2013, “specifically named China as being responsible for a series of hacks against vital American defense and government systems.” Many defense blueprints and technologies for missile systems... read more →
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By Jon Wollenhaupt If you were to drive the length of the Central Valley— from Shasta County in the north to Kern County in the south—you would travel a distance equal to a trip from New York City to Richmond, Virginia, or about 450 miles. During your travels, you would... read more →
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California’s skilled nursing facilities faced a major challenge starting in spring 2018. State-required staffing ratios were changing. To meet the new state requirements, facilities needed more certified nursing assistants (CNAs). To help meet the new requirements, the governor issued a critical proposal calling for the Employment Training Panel (ETP) to... read more →
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For several years in Visalia, employers told the Visalia Economic Development Corporation and the Tulare County Workforce Investment Board they had a problem. Their present and future workers needed to understand how to function better in the workplace—what they call “soft skills.” For Jorge Zegarra at the College of the Sequoias that... read more →
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HANFORD — College of Sequoias Training Resource Center will provide Essential Skills training to new Faraday Future employees at the COS Hanford Center facility. Faraday which is ramping up and completing retrofit of its manufacturing facility in Hanford’s Industrial Park plans to hire hundreds of employees from the Central Valley and... read more →
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By Jon Wollenhaupt What does it take to produce 345,000 pastries every day? According to Svenhard’s Swedish Bakery, it takes about 6,400 pounds of flour and 4,100 pounds of fruit fillings—not to mention 250 well-trained employees and a facility that operates 24 hours a day. After 100 years in the... read more →