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Back to Work: Opportunities include job training in infrastructure, tech, health care

In this The Future of Work Blog: Getting back to work around the country
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New weekly unemployment claims have dropped to a pandemic-era low.

For the week ending April 10, the Department of Labor reports new claims totaled 576,000. Much lower than the expected 700,000.

This is the lowest level of new claims since mid-March 2020.

WorkingNation is always looking at stories addressing how different parts of the country are trying to get unemployed people back into the workforce.

Here is some of what we found this week:

From Alabama: Yellowhammer News reports a partnership between the community college system and industry will train people to operate heavy equipment for statewide infrastructure projects.

From Illinois: Daily Herald reports a community college is giving qualified students a stipend, plus tools to attend its auto tech program.

From Maryland: WMAR reports a virtual job fair being held next month will help high school seniors who want to get into the workforce.

From Mississippi: Mississippi Business Journal reports two state universities are training students to work in the construction industry.

From New Mexico: Area Development reports an Albuquerque solar and energy storage company plans to expand its facility and create 70 new jobs.

From Ohio: The Times Leader reports 44 businesses are participating in an April 29th virtual job fair in Belmont County with a number of jobs available in health care, engineering, and marketing.

From South Carolina: Business Facilities reports Tyson Foods is re-establishing its operations in Richland County, resulting in 330 jobs for the area.

From Washington, D.C.: Technical.ly reports nonprofit GET Cities is launching programming in the nation’s capital to help women gain access to futures in tech.

April 12: Back to Work: Training programs address worker shortages
February 15: Back to Work: Programs are using virtual reality to train workers
February 8: Back to Work: Opportunities in cybersecurity, manufacturing, and transportation
January 25: Back to Work: Opportunities in health care and medical science
January 11: Back to Work: Hiring and training across the country, including in the manufacturing sector
December 28: Back to Work: New jobs programs designed to help members of the military
December 21: Back to Work: Initiatives boost employment in construction, health care, alternative energy
December 14: Back to Work: The path from LPN to registered nurse
December 7: Back to Work: Opportunities include trainings, apprenticeships, and work-based learning

We’ll keep looking, so check back for more stories from around the country.

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.