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Looking for a path to a new job? Here are some opportunities around the country

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The number of American workers filing for unemployment benefits for the first time remains elevated, though below the highs of late spring and early summer.

More than 870,000 people filed initial jobless claims for the week ending September 19, according to the Department of Labor. The number of people continuing to claim weekly benefits was at 12.6 million for the week ending September 12.

Despite continuing layoffs in some industries and areas, there is some hiring going on,  along with efforts to make sure unemployed workers have the skills needed for open jobs.

WorkingNation is always looking at stories addressing how different parts of the country are trying to get unemployed people back in the workforce. Here’s some of what we found this past week.

From Arizona: AZ Big Media reports LearnKey offers free job training courses for unemployed Arizonans, including how to job hunt in a digital world.

From Colorado: Steamboat Pilot & Today reports plan aims to provide coal workers with support for move into new careers.

From Idaho: Big Country News reports the state receives more than $1.5M in funding for AmeriCorps programs.

From Massachusetts: Energy News Network reports partnership will enroll commercial fishermen in a certification course that will qualify them to transport people and supplies to wind turbine sites.

From Missouri: News-Press NOW reports Missouri Western State University launches its Center for Workforce Development to provide training and continuing education opportunities for the region.

From North Dakota: Pierce County Tribune reports leaders are highlighting partnerships in wind energy that address workforce training and economic benefits.

From Vermont: Bennington Banner reports the Community College of Vermont has joined the AWS Academy to offer a cloud computing curriculum.

From Washington: The Reflector reports Washington State University Vancouver receives funds to help students access workforce opportunities and resources.

#ICYMI: Check out our past posts programs in different states and territories:

September 14: 8 programs addressing the highest unemployment rates in the U.S.
August 31: Need a job? Here are 8 programs that might help
August 24: Seeking work? Here are 8 states trying to get you back on the job
August 17: Unemployed? Here is how 8 more states are trying to get you back to work
August 10: Looking for work? Here are 8 ways 8 states are trying to help

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.