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Welcome to KC Speaks!

Welcome to KCSpeaks, my new blog where I plan to write about workforce development and how to make it work. Make it work? Yes. How do you make it work. Let me give you a run down of this. Workforce Development is a fancy title for the jobs business. Not just any jobs business, but a government sponsored industry of jobs support. I say support because employers create jobs, but those of us in the workforce development industry just support employers by supporting people that want those jobs.

Lately, it seems that rather than a development industry, we are in the amusement park business, riding the roller coaster from good economy to a bad economy, from funding falling from the sky to collecting soda cans on the side of the road. Its all an up and down- a roller coaster is the best analogy for the past few years. The job seekers have changed, the jobs they are applying for have changed, and the world of work has changed. This is not a Ferris wheel!

Where is the development in workforce development? That is the goal of this blog.  In future posts, I would like to discuss strategies to help job seekers get jobs,  actions that we as professionals can take to further our success, and to put some development in the workforce development. Welcome to KCSpeaks!

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  1. UnknownMarch 18, 2013 at 2:59 PM

    Good Stuff!!!! I am excited about your new endeavor. I definitely view you as an expert in the field. The next step is a book and then keynote presentations at all of the conferences. Keep up the good work.


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