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Many child care providers are having a hard time filling positions, putting extra pressure on the workers they already have.
Local advocates and government leaders are working to help places hire qualified workers.
“We aim to promote the recruitment and retention of early childhood professionals,” said Cristela Perez-Riddel, program director for the Child Care Services Program at Workforce Solutions Capital Area.
Tamara Atkinson, CEO of Workforce Solutions Capital Area, said in a statement that the Austin metro’s advanced manufacturing and transportation sectors have added about 5,000 jobs over the past 12 months.
“We have seen a steady increase in job openings in the Austin metro, especially in advanced manufacturing,” said Atkinson, whose organization provides job training and assistance. “Manufacturers across Central Texas are eager to hire people with these skills.”
Still, that doesn’t mean all of the laid-off Tesla employees will quickly find new jobs or have the skills that are viewed as in high demand in the metro. For them, job training and assistance agencies, such as Workforce Solutions and Skillpoint Alliance, say they stand at the ready.
During the most recent Urban Land Institute Austin session, Tamara Atkinson and other leaders in workforce training shared the realities of the local economy, which will need more than 10,000 new skilled workers every year for roughly a decade. Those workers will help to carry out construction and production on major projects such as the Interstate 35 reconstruction, the Project Connect mass transit system, the expansion of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport and the assorted semiconductor manufacturing plants across the region that collectively represent tens of billions of dollars in investment.
Several times, talk turned to the city’s recent establishment of a new infrastructure training academy, which is intended to address the growing need for construction workers throughout the area.
Panelist Nestor Ho, chief legal officer of Silicon Labs, said the current employment imbalance shows there are 62,000 jobs available for 52,000 people who are classified as unemployed.
According to Workforce Solutions Capital Area, there are more than enough jobs but not enough skilled workers in Austin.
The organization is trying to address the city’s skills gap through its Hire Local initiative. It released its 2023 annual report highlighting the initiative’s impacts.
“That is designed to close the gap by connecting local people with the skills needed in high demand jobs, high paying jobs, so they can afford to stay here in Austin,” said Chair for Workforce Solutions Capital Area Board Mark Sherry.
More Central Texans are enrolling in training programs that boost wages and fill gaps in the region’s labor force, an April 17 report from Workforce Solutions Capital Area found.
The 2023 Hire Local Report analyzed job placement and income increases of those who completed training programs in the Austin metro from October 2022 through September 2023.
The report also found that more Central Texans are utilizing training programs compared to previous years. Workforce Solutions served 17,186 students in 2023, 3,591 more than in 2022. Further, nursing graduates almost doubled in the past five years, from 596 in the 2018-19 school year to 1,076 during the 2022-23 school year.
Today the National Institute for Innovation and Technology™ —the nation’s leader in semiconductor talent pipeline development and U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) national Intermediary responsible for establishing and expanding Registered Apprenticeships (RAs) throughout semiconductor and nanotechnology-related industry supply chains—awarded two semiconductor industry giants, GlobalFoundries® and Applied Materials, Inc. for their work in establishing semiconductor manufacturing RAs.
Representatives from both companies were presented with the awards during “Texas Transistors: Building a Stronger Semiconductor Talent Pipeline,” a live-panel event held in Austin, TX, with stakeholders in the semiconductor and advanced manufacturing industries. GlobalFoundries was awarded for instituting the nation’s first semiconductor Registered Apprenticeship Program (RAP), which graduated its first apprentices last year at the company’s manufacturing facility in Malta, New York. The company also has a successful RAP at its Essex Junction, Vermont, manufacturing facility.
The awardees participated in the panels alongside other experts from NXP Semiconductors® and ManpowerGroup®, and leaders at the Workforce Solutions Capital Area and Workforce Solutions Rural Capital Area boards.
El informe más reciente de la Comisión de la Fuerza Laboral de Texas indica que la cesantía en la capital subió a 3.7% entre enero y febrero, lo que equivale a mas de 50.000 residentes sin trabajo; sin embargo, esta sigue siendo la tasa más baja de las 10 ciudades mas grandes del estado.
“Se mantiene por debajo de la tasa de texas que es un 4.4%. La región ha experimentado una tasa de crecimiento anual de 2.8%, lo que representa la adición colectiva de 36,500 puestos de trabajo desde febrero de 2023”, dijo Yesenia García representante de Workforce Solutions.
Entre las industrias con mayor crecimiento en el último año está la construcción con 5.3%. El reporte también da cuenta de otros sectores con alto número de contrataciones en el área como “la manufactura, los oficios calificados, la atención médica, la tecnología, la movilidad”, agregó García.
Childcare options are set to be incorporated in an infrastructure academy which will train skilled workforce members.
The City of Austin has partnered with Austin Community College and several others to create the infrastructure academy, where they are training the next generation of the construction workforce to help with major projects across the city such as the I-35 expansion and Project Connect.
Representatives from one of the partners, Workforce Solutions, said they are researching what people need as they plan what the program will look like.
The new academy should help train thousands of individuals to help with construction.
An initiative to train thousands of Central Texans in career paths tied to the region’s tens of billions of dollars of new infrastructure projects on the horizon launched March 22 at Austin Community College’s Riverside Campus.
Local leaders gathered at ACC Riverside March 22 to mark the start of the Austin Infrastructure Academy, a workforce recruitment and training collaborative formed in advance of years of major development around Greater Austin.
The infrastructure academy’s creation has been in the works for months through partnership between local officials, educators and representatives from infrastructure industry, workforce development and labor groups.