Opportunity Detroit

MI Bright Future Helps Connect High School Grads With Internships, Training

DETROIT - Online job postings in Michigan between January 2013 and May 2014 showed a need for nearly 47,000 engineering and design workers with bachelor degrees, but only 5,000 degrees were awarded in the state in these areas of study. Similar trends are present in the other industries tracked; postings in IT for candidates with

By |2017-01-13T16:25:52-05:00January 13th, 2017|Entrepreneurs|

Apprenticeship Provides Opportunity To Close IT Skills Gap

DETROIT - IT employers in the Southeast Michigan region are facing an increasingly challenging recruiting environment as demand for talent vastly outweighs the supply of workers. According to an analysis done by the Workforce IntelligenceNetwork for Southeast Michigan (WIN), there were more than 69,075 IT online job postings in 2015, which is nearly twenty times the number

By |2016-09-26T12:15:35-04:00September 23rd, 2016|Entrepreneurs, Guest Columns|