Iowa Workforce Development Communications For Immediate Release Date: August 17, 2023 Contact: Jesse Dougherty Telephone: 515-725-5487 Email: communications@iwd.iowa.gov Printer Friendly Version (PDF) Iowa’s Labor Force Participation Rate Returns to Pre- …
Eighteen months after Iowa revamped its approach to unemployment and began providing earlier job search assistance to people seeking unemployment benefits, the average length of an unemployment claim has dropped to its lowest level in more than 55 years. A …
Job-seeking educators and Iowa school administrators with still-open positions are being urged to revisit an IWD website that was set up earlier this year to help Iowans find education jobs. Iowa Workforce Development established a new Education Jobs …
Iowa Workforce Development Communications For Immediate Release Date: August 10, 2023 Contact: Jesse Dougherty Telephone: 515-725-5487 Email: communications@iwd.iowa.gov Printer Friendly Version (PDF) Iowa Expands Support for CDL Training with New …
At least 25 more children from working poor and immigrant families in Des Moines now have hope for expanded access to Barbie Adams' child care center thanks to a $240,000 grant from the state of Iowa. The money is part of $36.6 million in Child Care …
More than 335 job seekers attended a two-day job fair in Newton last month, as Iowa Workforce Development and two IowaWORKS offices joined forces to help find new careers for factory workers losing their jobs at TPI Composites. The event was so successful …
McKenna Link has always admired police officers. But for a long time, she believed that her status as a 5-foot, 2-inch woman with a high-pitched voice kept her from seriously considering law enforcement as a viable career opportunity. “It’s something that …
Nancy Mwirotsi sees the potential in making connections. But her drive is to make you see it, too. Mwirotsi, a Kenyan immigrant now nearing the end of her seventh year as executive director year of Pi515, a highly respected nonprofit in Des Moines, sees …
Despite the fact that demand for workers has never been higher, Christian Gray still believes there’s untapped potential out there that Iowa employers never see in a job interview – largely because they only interview people who apply for jobs bearing two- …
Bridget Hanner walked into the Pleasant View Care Center in Whiting last year hoping that they would pay her to wash dishes or fold laundry. Instead, she suddenly found herself on a path to a new health care career. Hanner, a lifelong resident of northwest …
There are two things to know about hiring refugees, explains Jamel Ajram, son of the Lebanese immigrant who created Ajram Upholstery and Fabric in Cedar Rapids in 1969. First, is the need to accommodate religion. Most of the roughly 245 Afghanistan …
Sue May understands the difference that a good helper can make. Thirty years ago, as she was leaving the U.S. Air Force, there was the helpful Veteran Service Officer in Nebraska who guided May through some hospital paperwork and started her down the path …
It was roughly 90 minutes into the Zoom meeting when Kyle Welter unmuted to ask for advice. “You know, the biggest issue I’m struggling with is just getting people to respond back to me,” said Welter. His recent interview for a human resources job had gone …
The long story of Precious Beginnings Children Center began with a need: A majority of children in some Des Moines neighborhoods were turning up for Kindergarten unprepared to start school. “We basically identified that if we were going to change the …
IowaWORKS career planners and job search experts soon will be hitting the road to serve Iowans in a whole new way: They’ll be bringing the office to you. Iowa Workforce Development expects to take delivery next summer of a new 32-foot-long, custom-built …
Iowa Workforce Development Communications For Immediate Release Date: January 23, 2020 Contact: Molly Elder Telephone: 515-725-4116 Email: molly.elder@iwd.iowa.gov Printer Friendly Version Wells Fargo workers may be eligible for benefits under Trade …
Iowa Workforce Development Communications For Immediate Release Date: June 18, 2020 Unemployment Insurance Customer Service 1-866-239-0843 - uiclaimshelp@iwd.iowa.gov Media Contact - communications@iwd.iowa.gov Iowa Workforce Development reports initial …
Iowa Workforce Development Communications For Immediate Release Date: December 20, 2019 Contact: Molly Elder Telephone: 515-725-4116 Email: molly.elder@iwd.iowa.gov Printer Friendly Version Calhoun County Becomes the 100th Home Base Iowa Community Calhoun …
The first quarter 2023 Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) data has been released. This data is a census of jobs covered by unemployment insurance and is available for Iowa and the 99 counties by sector and subsector. The available data now …
At its heart, work-based learning involves presenting Iowa youths with valuable information about the occupational possibilities available to them. Our hope is that if we give students on the eve of adulthood the opportunity to really learn more about …
