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 →
Apr
11
Aug
16
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 →
Jul
27
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 →