Workforce Central (Tacoma Pierce County)
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Business Services

Building tomorrow's workforce


WorkForce Central’s network provides services that address the need for skilled workers at the employer, individual and community levels.


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Boots2Work Military Career Day - Employer Exhibit & Sponsorship Opportunities

An opportunity to connect with over 1000 pre-screened transitioning and retired military and their spouses ready to interview at this August 28th event at the Tacoma Rainiers' Cheney Stadium.

Manufacturing Academy

A workforce training and recruitment program designed by local employers to prepare workers for manufacturing and aerospace careers.


Business Connection

Service Overview

What we do to develop skilled employees and provide workers for the jobs you need to fill:

  • Train and refresh employee skills and aid in retention
  • Recruit, screen and assess the skills of job candidates and employees
  • Develop new strategies for attracting, retaining and managing a more diverse workforce
  • Develop strategies for businesses to address specific employee populations (i.e. baby boomers who continue to work out of economic necessity)
  • Analyze wages
  • Develop job descriptions
  • Provide comprehensive background checks
  • Consult and find resources for a wide range of human resources

Positive Results

  • One-stop for workforce related services and information
  • Solution to your workforce headache
  • Increase in employee retention
  • Decrease in human resource spending
  • Improving the lives of your workers
  • Connection to local businesses and the community
More about the Business Connection 
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 Pierce County Health Career Council

Health Care Industry

What we do to train and retain health care workers:

  • Introduce students to the field with health care camps and career days
  • Increase training capacity at colleges and universities
  • Transition existing health care employees into high-demand positions and replace them with trained workers through the use on-site hospital coaches

More about Health Care Programs 

 

 Pierce County Construction Partnership

Construction Industry

What we do to develop skilled construction workers:

  • Introduce students to the field with a construction career day
  • Assemble public and private resources for pre-apprenticeship programs for high school youth
  • Inform the public of in-demand construction jobs and training opportunities

More about Construction Programs

 

 



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WorkForce News

The Sequester Unpacked: NDD United's "No More Cuts" Video
Watch the Video then head over to the
WFC Facebook page and tell us how the sequester has affected you!


Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the Challenge of Preparing Young Americans for the 21st Century

Career and Technical Education: Five Ways That Pay on the Way to the B. A.

New Report Finds Recent College Grads Still Facing Hard Times
The unemployment rate for recent graduates varies from 4.8 percent to 14.7 percent, depending on graduates’ major in college; salaries are similarly affected by major.

Pierce County's Local Integrated Workforce Plan

Housing 4 Success Video on King 5
Nearly 3,000 youth are homeless or at immediate risk of homelessness in the Tacoma area.  WFC is a partner in Housing 4 Success (H4S) a new, wraparound service program addressing this need.

KBTC Video on Workforce Demand
Discussion on the efforts to develop people ready for the modern workforce.

Pierce County Economic Outlook
From Regional Economist Paul Turek

From Classroom to Hired!
Local partnership creates Manufacturing Academy.

WorkForce Central Featured on TV Tacoma's "CityScape"

WorkForce Central Part of County-wide Training
Tacoma-Pierce County meets demands for aerospace workforce training.

WIA 2011 Annual report

Info to Access the Language Line

Sustainable Business Practice Report

Self Sufficiency Calculator
A unique resource for Pierce County residents

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