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November 2015

October 2015 Unemployment Rate for Minneapolis 


The October 2015 unemployment rate dropped .2% from September 2015 to 3%, resulting in 6,733 residents unemployed and actively seeking employment, a drop of just over 600 unemployed from September to October.

 

The federal government’s estimate of the Minneapolis labor force dropped in September, down 1,206 to 228,225, continuing a four month decline in labor force participation in Minneapolis.

 

The year-over-year trend for October shows both increased labor force participation and lower unemployment from one year ago.

 

October’s 3% unemployment rate in Minneapolis is the same as the State of Minnesota, .1% higher than the seven county metro area, and 1.8 % lower than the national average. 


Minneapolis Employment and Training Quarterly Performance and Grades: July -September 2015

Find grades here.

 

Service Provider Map Now Available

Minneapolis Employment and Training now has a map showing where our employment and training service providers are located. To see the map on our website, click here. 

 

For Your Calendar

Minnesota Workforce Council Association Annual Winter Meeting

Date: Thursday, December 3, 2015, Time: 9:30 am - 3 pm 

Location: Minnesota State Colleges and Universities,

Wells Fargo Place,

30 7th St. E, Ste. 350,

Saint Paul, Minnesota

Click here for an agenda.

 

Minneapolis Workforce Council Meeting

Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Time: 8:00 – 9:30 am

Location: TBD

 

Minneapolis Workforce Council Meeting

Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Time: 8:00 – 9:30 am

Location: TBD

 

Minneapolis Workforce Council Meeting

Date: Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Time: 8:00 – 9:30 am

Location: TBD

 

 

 

800 West Broadway Groundbreaking to Take Place December 1st

Please join Governor Mark Dayton and other dignitaries for the 800 West Broadway groundbreaking ceremony 


Tuesday, December 1, 9:30 - 10:40 a.m.

2nd floor above Walgreens, 627 West Broadway Ave., Minneapolis 

(Please use the NW entrance, not the main store entrance.)


Agenda

9:30 a.m......Networking and refreshments

10:00 a.m......Remarks

10:30 a.m......Groundbreaking at 800 West Broadway site

 

Scheduled to open in the fall of 2016, 800 West Braodway is a unique collaborative, opening doors for individual and community success. Tenants include: North Minneapolis Workforce Center (DEED), NorthPoint Health & Wellness Center, and the Minneapolis Public Schools.

 

Complete project details are available here.

                  

An Invitation to Partners of the Year Awards

Please join Minneapolis Employment and Training in honoring HIRED and Lifetrack Resources for their great work assisting Minneapolis residents to develop their academic, life, and work skills; identify career pathways; obtain industry-recognized credentials; and achieve meaningful employment.

 

The 2015 Partners of the Year awards will be presented by the Minneapolis Community Development & Regulatory Services Committee. 

 

Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at 1:30 p.m. 

Minneapolis City Council Chambers, Minneapolis City Hall

A reception will follow the committee meeting in Room 319 of City Hall.

 

Since 1982, City of Minneapolis Employment and Training has selected two agencies each year to receive the Award for Outstanding Service.

 

Anna Peterson Named New STEP-UP Director

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City of Minneapolis has named Anna Peterson Director of the STEP-UP Youth Employment Program. Anna had served as the STEP-UP Program Manager since January, 2015. Prior to that Anna was

Manager of Training and Data at STEP-UP Achieve with AchieveMpls.

 

Anna holds an Ed.M. from the Teachers College of Columbia University and received her undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

 

Previous STEP-UP Director Tammy Dickinson is the new Career Pathways Coordinator at City of Minneapolis.

 

CPED Staff Attend White House TechHire Summit

On November 17th, CPED’s Deb Bahr-Helgen and Rose Lindsay, along with other city staff and TechHire partners, traveled to Baltimore for the White House TechHire Gathering/Community Summit. At the summit they heard U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith, Cabinet Secretary and Chair of the My Brother’s Keeper Task Force Broderick Johnson, and Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez announce new steps to advance the President’s TechHire initiative and to expand opportunities to underrepresented Americans in the technology industry to get trained and placed into well-paying tech jobs. With three established alternative tech learning programs and more than 60 committed employers on board, Minneapolis was one of the first cities to be named  a TechHire City.

 

In Baltimore, the Administration announced new steps to ensure that Americans get access to these good paying jobs including the Department of Labor’s announcement of a $100 million TechHire grant competition.  This competition will fund collaborations that can rapidly train and connect workers to well-paying, high-growth jobs across industries such as information technology, healthcare, and advanced manufacturing. The Administration also announced the release of $20 million of Training to Work grant funds to expand access to tech jobs and other high growth occupations for those formerly incarcerated.

 

After the announcement, networking and breakout sessions helped community leaders, employers, training providers, and TechHire partners collaborate on best practices.

 

A highlight of the day, was when Victor Chege, a new City of Minneapolis IT Desk Service Agent and a graduate of a TechHire training program, shared his inspiring story of how he gained the skills he needed and landed a job with the City of Minneapolis.

 

Learn more about Minneapolis TechHire here.

 

EMERGE Is Putting the 'Unemployable' to Work

In the midst of a labor shortage, some companies are finding success hiring the so-called unemployables, such as those with a criminal record. The matchmaker is Minnesota’s only alternative staffing agency, EmergeWORKS, operated by EMERGE, a Minneapolis Employment and Training employment service provider.


While some industries simply can’t hire people with certain criminal records, Sue Von, enterprise manager at EmergeWORKS, is ready with persuasive arguments why most employers should reconsider this undervalued resource. Her biggest reason is that these people are so happy to have a job that they tend to stick with it.

 

Read the whole article from the Minnesota Business Magazine here.