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Back to Work: Opportunities in aviation, environmental cleanup, and tech

Every week, we look for workforce pathways around the country
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Last month, nonfarm jobs in the U.S. increased by 517,000 – well above the market estimate of 187,000. The sector with the greatest increase was leisure and hospitality with 128,000 positions.

In addition, the jobless rate dropped to 3.4% – lower than the estimated 3.6%.

Meanwhile, our latest employment and training findings are in Alabama, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, and Utah.

Check them out.

From Alabama: Selma Times-Journal reports Resicum International LLC is opening an aviation operations hub and training facility in Selma – providing flight training and maintenance support to government, commercial, and general aviation customers.

From Illinois: Rockford Register Star reports a grant will support an aviation mechanics workforce development training program at the Chicago Rockford International Airport – funding 80 apprenticeships.

From Pennsylvania: HR Dive reports Pennsylvania is ending its four-year degree requirement for many state jobs.

From Puerto Rico: EPA announces a Rochester, New York-based organization is using $500,00 to train up to 120 students in Puerto Rico and place at least 80 in environmental jobs with focus on community revitalization and cleanup projects at brownfield sites.

From Utah: St. George News reports Utah Tech University is providing access to residents to free tech skills courses.

Did you miss our previous Back to Work stories from around the country? Catch up here.

Dana Beth Ardi

Executive Committee

Dana Beth Ardi, PhD, Executive Committee, is a thought leader and expert in the fields of executive search, talent management, organizational design, assessment, leadership and coaching. As an innovator in the human capital movement, Ardi creates enhanced value in companies by matching the most sought after talent with the best opportunities. Ardi coaches boards and investors on the art and science of building high caliber management teams. She provides them with the necessary skills to seek out and attract top-level management, to design the ideal organizational architectures and to deploy people against strategy. Ardi unearths the way a business works and the most effective way for people to work in them.

Ardi is an experienced business executive and senior consultant who leverages business organizational transformation through talent strategies. She uses her knowledge and experience to develop talent strategies to enhance revenue and profit contributions. She has a deep expertise in change management and organizational effectiveness and has designed and built high performance cultures. Ardi has significant experience in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, IPO’s and turnarounds.

Ardi is an expert on the multi-generational workforce. She understands the four intersecting generations of workers coming together in contemporary companies, each with their own mindsets, leadership and communications styles, values and motivations. Ardi is sought after to assist companies manage and thrive by bringing the generations together. Her book, Fall of the Alphas: How Beta Leaders Win Through Connection, Collaboration and Influence, will be published by St. Martin’s Press. The book reflects Ardi’s deep expertise in understanding organizations and our changing society. It focuses on building a winning culture, how companies must grow and evolve, and how talent influences and shapes communities of work. This is what she has coined “Corporate Anthropology.” It is a playbook on how modern companies must meet challenges – culturally, globally, digitally, across genders and generations.

Ardi is currently the Managing Director and Founder of Corporate Anthropology Advisors, LLC, a consulting company that provides human capital advisory and innovative solutions to companies building value through people. Corporate Anthropology works with organizations, their cultures, the way they grow and develop, and the people who are responsible for forming their communities of work.

Prior to her position at Corporate Anthropology Advisors, Ardi served as a Partner/Managing Director at the private equity firms CCMP Capital and JPMorgan Partners. She was a partner at Flatiron Partners, a venture capital firm working with early state companies where she pioneered the human capital role within an investment portfolio.

Ardi holds a BS from the State University of New York at Buffalo as well as a Masters degree and PhD from Boston College. She started her career as professor at the Graduate Center at Fordham University in New York.