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YOUTH JOB FAIR COMING APRIL 13!
April 3, 2023
By any measure, the coronavirus pandemic was incredibly disruptive for working people. As the Portland region and the nation transition to a post-pandemic economy, most jobs lost during the pandemic [...]
WORKSYSTEMS DELEGATION ATTENDS DC YOUTH SUMMIT
March 21, 2023
MARCH 21ST, 2023A team from Worksystems was among a delegation of Portland-based organizations that traveled to Washington, DC in early March to take part in a gathering designed to create [...]
COLUMBIA-WILLAMETTE WORKFORCE COLLABORATIVE PUBLISHES LATEST STATE OF THE WORKFORCE REPORT
February 3, 2023
The Columbia-Willamette Workforce Collaborative (CWWC) -- comprising Worksystems and our sister workforce development boards, Clackamas Workforce Partnership and Workforce Southwest Washington -- has released the 2022-23 State of the Workforce [...]
WORKSYSTEMS & HERE FOR PORTLAND TO DISTRIBUTE 3,000 $50 GIFT CARDS TO SUPPORT LOCAL BUSINESSES
November 14, 2022
The City of Portland’s Here for Portland campaign -- of which Worksystems is a founding member -- will distribute up to 3,000 free Kuto app gift cards at the upcoming [...]
GET A QUICK START ON A SEMICONDUCTOR CAREER
October 11, 2022
Thanks to a new collaboration between Intel, Worksystems, Portland Community College, Worksource, and the City of Hillsboro, it’s faster and easier than ever before to train to enter the semiconductor [...]
DRIVING DIVERSITY IN PORTLAND: CONGRATS GRADUATES!
October 7, 2022
Chip Shields, a former Oregon state senator, saw that truck driving jobs are among the fastest growing middle-income jobs, and yet people of color and women weren’t getting into these [...]
WORKSYSTEMS AND PARTNERS RECEIVE $41M TIMBER GRANT
October 7, 2022
The prospects of Oregon workers got a boost this month when the U.S. Economic Development Administration awarded a $41.4 million grant to the Oregon Mass Timber Coalition. The grant, funded [...]
CONSTRUCTION LABOR MARKET REPORT 2022
July 25, 2022
Worksystems-Construction_Report_2022 This industry report examines the workforce data, characteristics and trends that define the Construction sector within the Greater Portland-Vancouver area. With over 77,000 jobs and a payroll of $6.8 billion, Construction [...]
NEWS RELEASE: QUALITY JOBS FRAMEWORK
July 21, 2022
In partnership with the Columbia-Willamette Workforce Collaborative (CWWC), which includes Workforce Southwest Washington and Clackamas Workforce Partnership, Worksystems is excited to announce the release of the Quality Jobs Framework for the Portland [...]
WORKSYSTEMS RECEIVES $2.97M FROM THE PORTLAND CLEAN ENERGY FUND
July 13, 2022
We are excited to announce that Worksystems has received $2.97 million from the Portland Clean Energy Fund (PCEF) through the Portland Bureau of Planning & Sustainability. In addition to this [...]