Calhoun Community College is doing its part to boost the state’s automotive industry workforce. The school is offering automotive scholarships to Alabama residents for the fall 2023 semester. Each scholarship is valued at $4,000. According to Calhoun President Dr. Jimmy Hodges, the scholarships are the result of a partnership between the Alabama Community College System […]

Elba, Alabama, the seat of Coffee County, will be the new home to a $5 million dollar electrical transformer facility that will specifically repair and recycle the transformers.

Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted January unemployment rate was 2.6%, unchanged from December 2022’s revised rate, Gov. Kay Ivey’s office announced today. The rate is unchanged from January 2022’s rate and represents 58,411 unemployed persons compared to 59,986 in December and 60,270 in January 2022, Ivey said. “I’m proud to kick off 2023 with a continuation […]

Thousands of Wiregrass high school students received career guidance during the eighth annual Southeast Worlds of Work.

Community colleges within the system added $6.6 billion to Alabama’s economy in 2021, supporting one out of every 27 jobs in the state.

Governor Kay Ivey announced today that Resicum International LLC plans to open an aviation training academy at Craig Field in Selma.

You’ve seen the “Help Wanted” signs on just about every business around the state and on social media platforms. According to the Alabama Department of Labor’s Labor Market Information Division, you weren’t seeing things. As of December 2022, the yearly comparison of online job ads is 101,036, up 3.9% from December 2021, the division said. […]

For the second year in a row the Regional Workforce Development Rankings have placed Alabama as the number one state in the region.

Alabama’s active-duty military, veterans, and their families will now have access to thirty resource workshops across the state because of a sponsorship from the Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils ( Alabama RC&D).

An Alabama Carbon black manufacturing plant located in Phenix City, Alabama will close on December 31st.

Four additional auto suppliers in Alabama have utilized child labor in recent years, investigative reporting conducted by Reuters found.

Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted November unemployment rate is 2.7%, unchanged from October, Gov. Kay Ivey announced today. The rate is also below November 2021’s rate of 3.1%. November’s rate represents 63,043 unemployed persons, compared to 61,721 in October and 69,688 in November 2021. “It is encouraging to see that Alabama’s economy is supporting more jobs […]

There are currently thousands of jobs available in the construction industry across Alabama that are unfilled. To help close the gap in training for these positions Skills for Success has increased its training opportunities to offer no-cost training in several operator positions

Every community or technical college in Alabama now has at least one apprenticeship registered through the Alabama Office of Apprenticeship (AOA) and supported by Alabama’s business and industry.

The committee focuses on building the highly skilled workforce Alabama needs to meet current and future challenges and opportunities.

Trenholm State Community College this week announced the expansion of its truck driving program, which will now be available on its main campus on Air Base Boulevard in Montgomery.

Alabama’s unemployment rate for October showed a slight gain over September, according to the latest figures released by the governor’s office Friday. The preliminary, seasonally adjusted October unemployment rate is 2.7%, up slightly from September’s rate of 2.6% but below October 2021’s rate of 3.1%. October’s rate represents 61,760 unemployed persons, down from 70,569 in […]

The annual “Employer of Choice for Veterans” from Forbes was just one of several accolades that Boeing received for the efforts to hire individuals who served the nation.

The scholarships are through a partnership between the Alabama Automotive Manufacturers Association and the Alabama Community College System.

Educators from the Etowah County School System, Gadsden City Schools, and Attalla City Schools gathered Oct. 10 to learn more about local career opportunities and technical training programs through the Etowah Qualified Workforce Immersion Program (EQWIP).

The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) announced the awarding of a grant for Wallace State Community College–Hanceville (WSCC) in the amount of $1,169,958 for the Supporting Electric Vehicle Manufacturing and Maintenance in North Alabama project.

Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted September unemployment rate continued to hold at its record low level of 2.6%, Gov. Kay Ivey announced Friday. Last month’s rate  is well below September 2021’s rate of 3.2%.  September’s rate represents 59,558 unemployed persons, compared to 58,913 in August and 71,989 in September 2021. “Despite the uncertainty facing the U.S. […]

Scholarships are available to Alabama community college students to train for careers in the state's automotive manufacturing industry.

Amazon donated $1.2 million to fund the programs, which will include scholarships and a pipeline for leadership roles at the tech giant.