Austin-area job seekers interested in manufacturing careers will have the opportunity to meet with local employers at the 2025 Manufacturing Job Fair.
Category: In the News
-
Central Texas businesses can now tap into $6M in state funding to boost workforce
The Austin-area branch of TWC, Workforce Solutions Capital Area, also launched the Austin Infrastructure Academy in March, a “person-centric” career development program.
Dubbed a “one-stop-shop,” the academy provides a new hub for job seekers that integrates recruitment, job training and wraparound service support for prospective employees in Austin’s mobility and infrastructure sector, said Tamara Atkinson, Workforce Solutions Capital Area CEO.
-
Workforce Solutions to host veterans job fair in Austin this week
Workforce Solutions Capital Area is hosting a job fair this week for veterans.
On Thursday, interested veterans can swing by Workforce Solutions Capital Area’s office on Webberville Road to hear from nearly 30 local employers who have jobs open.
Workforce Solutions is Austin’s and Travis County’s data-driven workforce development arm that provides free specialized support to job-seeking Austinites.
-
Austin leaders optimistic about decade-long infrastructure transformation
City leaders and officials gathered on Tuesday for the Austin Chamber’s Infrastructure Summit to discuss the progress and challenges of several transformative projects set to reshape Austin over the next decade.
Leaders expressed optimism about managing what they called an “historic” period for the city while acknowledging the growing pains ahead as they prepare for an overlap of several major infrastructure initiatives. This includes light rail development, the Interstate 35 expansion projects, building the new Austin Convention Center and downtown revitalization efforts.
-
Capital area sees slight uptick in unemployment
According to Workforce Solutions Rural Capital Area (WSRCA), a no-cost agency that connects employers and job seekers, the unemployment rate of the nine counties it serves increased from 3.6% in January to 3.8% in February.
-
Austin Infrastructure Academy pipeline to bolster thousands of jobs in Central Texas
In a multiagency collaboration, Workforce Solutions Capital Area launched the Austin Infrastructure Academy on March 26, a “person-centric” career development program.
-
Austin launches Infrastructure Academy to build workforce for $25B in upcoming projects
A couple years in the making, Austin’s Infrastructure Academy launched to the public Wednesday to help accomplish just that.
-
Austin’s new Infrastructure Academy launches with career fair
The Austin Infrastructure Academy, born out of a partnership looking to tackle workforce demands, affordability and infrastructure needs in the city, officially launched Wednesday morning with a career fair to connect industry employers with anyone in Austin looking for a new career.
-
How a new Infrastructure Academy could help meet Austin workforce gaps, deliver high wages
Since 2022, Mayor Kirk Watson has been wrestling with a challenge. The good challenge, as he calls it, of a booming city: how to tackle affordability and infrastructure.
As more people moved to Austin, he wondered, how can he make it so more families keep more money in their pockets?
As the growing city’s new infrastructure projects ballooned — spanning to $25 billion in projects with the renovation of the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, Interstate 35 expansion and Project Connect — a parallel goal emerged: to help Austinites “make a living making Austin.”
-
Austin infrastructure career fair to be held March 26 with launch of workforce initiative
Central Texans interested in starting or advancing their roles in infrastructure-related fields are invited to a regional career fair hosted by Workforce Solutions Capital Area on March 26.