Video: Tamara Atkinson, CEO of Workforce Solutions Capital Area, gives insight on employment in the area to KXAN.
Category: In the News
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Business leaders eye contract, job opportunities from $25B in transportation projects
With $25 billion in road, rail and airport infrastructure projects on tap for Austin over the next decade-plus, business leaders are starting to shape how the regional economy and its workforce can get the most benefit from the far-reaching changes in local transportation.
The demands and opportunities for Austin businesses of all sizes, and the need to provide thousands of construction and other workers for years at a time, were among the central topics of last week’s Regional Mobility Summit hosted by the Austin Chamber of Commerce.
Greg Canally, executive director of Austin Transit Partnership, said his organization is already working with Workforce Solutions Capital Area and other local resources that are in place to train area residents.
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Austin’s leisure and hospitality industry booming, 13.4% increase from last year
Amber Warne is the Director of Upskilling and Advancement at Workforce Solutions Capital Area. She said the leisure and hospitality industry had the greatest regional job growth over the past year.
“The Austin metros leisure and hospitality industry grew 1,300 jobs from January to February. So this makes up about half of all jobs added since last month,” Warne said. “Since last year, the leisure and hospitality industry added 13,400 jobs, which is a 13.4% growth.”
Warne said as of April 2022, the industry had already regained all of the previous jobs lost from the pandemic.
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Indeed laying off 15% of staff, around 2,200 people
Jessica Camarillo is the Director of Technology Partnerships with Workforce Solutions Capital Area. She said tech companies have been making cuts after a hiring boom the past couple of years.
“That growth is either plateauing or slowing down. A little bit of a course correction, as far as the size of company and the size of growth that they were expecting in the next five years,” Camarillo said.
Still, Camarillo said there’s no shortage of opportunity for tech talent locally.
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Cultivating Austin Talent with Workforce Solutions Capital Area CEO Tamara Atkinson
Tamara Atkinson, CEO of Workforce Solutions Capital Area, delves into the role the organization plays in shaping the future of Austin’s workforce. We’ll explore how Workforce Solutions Capital Area supports the local workforce, what is the state of the talent market today, and how the region is balancing the constant shifts of supply and demand for labor and skills.
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Austin’s job market is confusing. Here’s what to know.
It’s a confusing job market in Austin. Sizeable layoffs are happening, but other companies are in expansion mode.
Recent work reductions include security contract firm Security Specialists Inc., a California-based company that is cutting 240 Austin jobs. The company’s clients have included big tech names, including Google, Facebook and Apple.
Meanwhile, Israeli-based software company Wix.com is cutting 100 jobs here and dozens more in other U.S. cities. Wix, which is based in Tel Aviv, sells cloud-based web development services.
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Alianza para crear y promover empleos de movilidad
Los proyectos de Project Connect, el plan aprobado por votación en 2020 para ampliar y mejorar la red de transporte público para el Centro de Texas, crearán miles de nuevos empleos, incluso diferentes a los existentes actualmente, en los próximos diez años.
Para entender la próxima necesidad y suplirla conforme vaya surgiendo, Austin Transit Partnership (ATP) y Workforce Solutions Capital Area se unieron para crear la primera alianza regional de fuerza laboral del sector industrial de movilidad y un plan de acción para el desarrollo de esos puestos de trabajo.
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$300,000 to help study employment needs for Austin’s mass transit expansion
A Workforce Mobility Industry Sector Partnership was announced Friday between Austin Transit Partnership (ATP) and Workforce Solutions Capital Area (WFS).
“The purpose of this Agreement is to support the creation of the region’s first Workforce Mobility Industry Sector Partnership that includes the development and implementation of a construction workforce plan for the construction of Project Connect, which was approved by the voters of the City at the November 3, 2020, special election,” the Scope of Agreement shows.
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Workforce Solutions busca incentivar interés por carreras técnicas entre las mujeres
La agencia laboral Workforce Solutions ofrece un programa de preparación de aprendices del curriculum base de multi-oficios, conocido como MC3.
La iniciativa consiste de un curso de dos semanas que ofrece a los participantes orientación sobre un amplia gama de empleos en áreas como los primeros auxilios, prevención de riesgo y la certificación de la Administración de Salud y Seguridad Ocupacional, OSHA.
“Ellos son expuestos a todos los oficios en construcción, desde plomería hasta trabajo eléctrico. Lo que realmente les permite tratar de descubrir cuál es el oficio que les gusta más”, dijo Yesenia García, quien ayuda a coordinar el programa.
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‘Pursuit of Happyness’ inspiration makes stops at Austin high schools
Local organizations are hoping to give everyone permission to dream.
Workforce Solutions Capital Area, along with North America’s Building Trade Unions has partnered with the man whose story inspired the “Pursuit of Happyness” movie, in the hopes of driving middle and high school students to plan for their careers.
“What we want you to know is that there are opportunities for you, and there are people that are fighting and wanting to make sure that you know that those opportunities are there for you,” said the president of the Texas State Teachers Association Ovidia Molina.