Mississippi Business Journal » Governor’s Workforce Conference http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Tue, 21 May 2013 19:01:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Training Dick and Jane http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/12/18/training-dick-and-jane/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=training-dick-and-jane http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/12/18/training-dick-and-jane/#comments Sun, 18 Dec 2011 06:00:54 +0000 Wally Northway http://msbusiness.com/?p=49779 The Governor’s Workforce Conference held earlier this month in Jackson offered plenty of success stories, particularly the recruitment of the new Toyota plant in Northeast Mississippi. However, there were also words of warning about the state meeting the needs of businesses with a competently trained workforce in the future. The state is already struggling to [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/12/18/training-dick-and-jane/feed/ 0 Barbour hosts work force conference http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/12/05/barbour-hosts-work-force-conference/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=barbour-hosts-work-force-conference http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/12/05/barbour-hosts-work-force-conference/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:44:51 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=49307 JACKSON — Gov. Haley Barbour and former assistant Labor Department secretary Emily DeRocco will speak Thursday at the Governor’s Workforce Conference in Jackson. DeRocco is president of The Manufacturing Institute. The conference will be held at the Jackson Convention Complex. The conference will feature sessions on reforming the state’s work force system, enhancing partnerships between [...]

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