Calling all undergraduate and graduate students and recent college grads with a passion for social impact!  Diplomat Pharmacy is accepting applications for its 2015 Fellowship for Social Impact program. The company is seeking social innovators with the talent, drive and potential to create change in the Flint community and beyond. The 12-week Fellowship brings participants to Flint, Michigan where they learn from community leaders, participate in service-learning projects and implement social impact projects. The innovative program provides fellows with a truly immersive urban experience, including the provision of housing in vibrant, revitalized downtown Flint. The fellowship is a full-time program that will run from June 1 – August 14, 2015.  

Completed applications must be received by March 31st, 2015.  Click here to learn more about the competition.  If you have any questions about the program or the application, send an email to:  fellows@diplomat.is.

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Morbark Inc., located in Winn, Michigan, builds equipment that creates opportunities for customers serving the forestry, recycling, sawmill, biomass, landscaping/irrigation, rental and tree care markets. Innovating and building durable and high-performance equipment for more than 50 years, Morbark offers a full line of flails, disc and drum tree chippers, brush chippers, horizontal and tub grinders, stump grinders and more. Morbark equipment helps customers harvest, process and convert organic materials into valuable, usable and environmentally sound products. The company offers worldwide sales, support and service through an independent, authorized dealer network.

Morbark is looking to hire an Industrial Sales Manager.  In this role, you will be responsible for managing all industrial sales personnel, leading implementation of industrial growth plans, and developing industrial sales growth and profit goal plans.  The ideal candidate is highly motivated and whole-company oriented, possesses previous personnel management experience, proficiency with basic software programs, and experience with applications of heavy equipment sales and distributor businesses.

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Fahrner Asphalt Sealers, located in Saginaw, Michigan, recognized as a leader in the pavement maintenance industry as a full service asphalt maintenance contractor with over 35 years of experience. Fahrner's unique customer care and high standards are what sets us apart from the competition.

Fahrner is seeking the following:

• CDL Drivers:  The ideal candidate for this position will be a motivated team player with a strong work ethic, and available to work out of town, as well as to work a flexible schedule including weekends.  
  
  
• Construction Equipment Mechanic:  The ideal candidate for this position will be reliable, hardworking, and team-oriented.  Any additional experience with welding, fabricating, hydraulic, and electrical is a plus.

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Wolverine Engineers & Surveyors, located in Mason, Michigan, is has been providing exceptional consulting engineering services to state and local governments as well as select private developers throughout the Midwest.  Wolverine provides a full line of consulting services including civil and geotechnical engineering, surveying, landscape architecture, engineered septic design, and construction inspection.  Wolverine is an extremely close knit company that has an average employee tenure of 13 years.  Wolverine specializes in improving the aging infrastructure of Michigan's rural communities and many of their clients will confirm that Wolverine is a dedicated and efficient firm made up of professionals who will work in the best interest of their community.

Wolverine is currently looking for a Civil Designer to work directly with senior civil engineers on a variety of projects.  In this role, you will design and draft conceptual, preliminary, and detailed designs, collaborate extensively with other consultants and external utility companies, and other technical functions.  The ideal candidate for this opportunity will possess a minimum of 2-4 years of relevant civil engineering, drafting, and design experience with linear infrastructure, knowledge of InRoads and Civil 3D, and strong attention to detail and good communication skills. 

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Goodwill Industries of Central Michigan's Heartland, located in Jackson, Michigan, is a private, CARF accredited, nonprofit organization that has been serving the community since the 1950s. At Goodwill, we believe in helping individuals with barriers to employment experience the Power of Work. Through workforce development programs, we provide training, support services, and career opportunities.

Goodwill Industries is currently looking to hire a Vice President of Jackson Workforce Development who will be responsible for the management of all functions of the Jackson Workforce Development office including staff supervision and development, reporting of all department operations, developing and adhering to a department budget and promoting Goodwill Industries of Central Michigan's Heartland throughout the community.

The ideal candidate for this position will possess a Bachelor's degree in a vocational rehabilitation, guidance and counseling, psychology, or related field; two years experience in the field of employment and training; three years experience in a comparable management position; excellent communication skills; and the ability to establish and maintain strong community relations.

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For nearly a century, Hastings Manufacturing Company, located in Hastings, Michigan, has been serving the internal combustion industry through advanced design and fabrication of world-class piston rings for OEM giants such as Ford, GM, Chrysler, Harley-Davidson, and Polaris -- as well as for the marine, lawn & garden, compressor and industrial sectors. Recognized as a premier supplier to these industries, Hastings earned its reputation in piston ring technology by using engineering through nomograms, proprietary and specialty manufacturing/measurement equipment, 3-D modeling, laser technologies, and quality control systems.

Hastings currently has an exciting Marketing Internship opportunity available.  In this role, you will have the opportunity to gain valuable experience managing multiple automotive trade shows for the remainder of 2015, from registration to event completion, including coordinating graphics, advertising, shipping, and other related tasks.

If you have a passion for the automotive industry, and you are either a declared Marketing college student with at least two years of schooling completed or you possess a marketing degree and can work approximately 20 hours/week, this could be the perfect opportunity for you!

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The Pure Michigan Talent Connect team is hosting multiple webinars in 2015 to show users how to get the most out of MiTalent.org.  Join the team to learn about all of the resources available to you on the system, as well as how to get the most benefit out of the tools you're already using.

Job Seeker Training Session Outline:

• How to create an effective user profile
• Performing effective job searches
• Setting up email notifications
• Editing your profile
• Other resources

To see a list of currently available sessions, and to register to attend, click here.  If you have any questions, please contact TalentAssist@michigan.org.

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Employers have spoken. What are they saying?  More and more jobseekers lack the developed soft skills critical to be successful in the workforce.  As a result, Pure Michigan Talent Connect has rolled out a FREE eLearning Lifelong Soft Skills program. 

The goal of this Lifelong Soft Skills eLearning series is to raise awareness among jobseekers and employees about key skills needed for workplace success.  Click here to watch a quick trailer about this innovative free resource.

These 14 eLearning modules on Lifelong Soft Skills are to provide a universally accessible soft skills training resource for the Michigan workforce for basic and foundational skills for the workplace, to help ensure the workforce is ready to succeed in the 21st century.

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