DETROIT – A quarterly economic survey released by Business Leaders for Michigan shows the state’s top executives have confidence in their Michigan operations and high demand for qualified talent, even with potentially softening economic conditions. Michigan business leaders’ concerns over filling jobs has remained overwhelmingly high at 78%, with 81% of respondents citing a lack
LANSING - Limbo is a game where the most limber, or flexible player wins. Sound familiar? Survey after survey is revealing that employees today are seeking more flexibility in their jobs and are willing to change employers to get that flexibility. But how flexible can employers be without sacrificing productivity? It’s fair to say that
LANSING - Business Leaders for Michigan, the state’s business roundtable, weighed in to support key provisions of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Fiscal Year 2022 Executive Budget recommendation. “Investing in people and innovation are some of the best things we can do to make Michigan a more competitive and prosperous state,” said Jeff Donofrio, President and CEO,
LANSING–Small manufacturers across the state are invited to a series of events being hosted by the Manufacturing Growth Alliance to celebrate Michigan’s $105 billion manufacturing Industry during October. National Manufacturing Day, taking place Friday, Oct. 2, is an annual event that brings together hundreds of manufacturers to host students, teachers, parents, job seekers and other
LANSING - If career and technical education programs are going to gain the recognition that state leaders want, everyone involved needs to change how they talk about those programs, Governor Rick Snyder, Superintendent of Public Instruction Brian Whiston and Talent and Economic Development Director Roger Curtis said in various presentations to the Governor's Education and
ANN ARBOR - I have been involved in the software talent space for over a decade. When I joined Ann Arbor SPARK in 2006 to develop programs to attract, develop and retain talent, software talent was the number one issue. When I developed state-wide talent attraction programs as SVP of Talent Enhancement for MEDC from
GRAND RAPIDS – A 2017 survey by the Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce shows finding qualified talent as the top concern for the first time, surpassing the cost of health care which had been the top issue for the last four years. Despite the concerns expressed in the survey, more than 93 percent of
LANSING - Former Michigan International Speedway CEO Roger Curtis, appointed to director of the Department of Talent and Economic Development in December, is still developing goals for the department, but hopes to blend a lot of focus on the educational system, he told Gongwer News Service in a recent interview. Born in Indiana and spending
