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Help MCCV inform high school grads about local manufacturing career opportunities!
Join with other north valley manufacturing firms and seize the initiative to demonstrate to young people that there are exciting career opportunities at manufacturing firms in their own communities: sign up now to participate in the 2008 Careers in Manufacturing.
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Several changes have been made this year to help make this process easier for both employers and students and to ensure that the students local firms select for interviews have not already been hired! A new tracking system is in place to provide more reliable feedback and to help transition this into a year-round program. This year the program is expanding and will include 13-15 high schools in Modesto, Ceres, Patterson, Turlock, Oakdale and possibly Denair.
You can learn more about this exciting pilot program that has put close to 130 young people to work during the past three years by calling MCCV Executive Director Jan Ennenga at (209) 968-5632 or sending an e-mail to jan@mccv.org
2008 Careers in Manufacturing High School Presentations (Students and Parents)
DATE (all @ 6:30 pm)
SCHOOL
LOCATION
ADDRESS
Wed., Jan. 23 * 6:30 p.m.
Patterson HS
PHS School Cafeteria
200 N. 7th St, Patterson
Thurs., Feb. 7 * 6:30 p.m.
Central Valley-Ceres
CV High School
Service & Central, Ceres
Tues., Feb. 26 * 6:15 p.m.
Modesto’s 5 HS
Johansen High, Little Theatre
614 Norseman Dr., Modesto
Thurs., Feb. 28 * 6:30 p.m.
Ceres HS
Ceres HS Cafeteria
2320 Central Ave., Modesto
TBA Turlock HS THS Boys Gymnasium Berkeley Avenue, Turlock TBA Oakdale HS
This multi-disciplinary team activity seeks to highlight students whose interests are science and technology and offers a promising opportunity for partnerships between local manufacturers and schools as we continue to promote Careers in Manufacturing. For an overview and weblinks, click on the link provided above.
Websites
Just what is a career in manufacturing? It's a whole lot more than you imagined and it's not just a job! Check out this website and have some fun, The goal of the Dream It. Do It. campaign is to help young adults find careers that they can be passionate about in one of manufacturing's many exciting sectors. Whether someone is interested in cars or computers or music or even art, there's a great job waiting for them in manufacturing. The Dream It. Do It. campaign was developed by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and The Manufacturing Institute, its research and education affiliate. NAM is the nation's largest industrial trade association, representing small and large manufacturers in every industrial sector and in all 50 states.
The Labor Market Information Division, in cooperation with the California Workforce Investment Board and the California Regional Economies Project, created Manufacturing Careers to support the recruitment of new workers into the industry and to support the President's High Growth Job Training Initiative.
Manufacturing Careers include occupations from all aspects of the industry - from the germ of an idea for a new or improved product to its design and testing processes, execution of production processes, quality control, and final delivery to the customer. Included are entry-level through more technical and professional manufacturing occupations.
WorkKeys is a job skills assessment system measuring real-world skills. The WorkKeys System supports economic and workforce development programs, connects work skills, training, and testing for education and business and makes it easier to meet the requirements of federal programs and legislation. Several Stanislaus area companies are utilizing WorkKeys and work is underway to develop a county-wide Work Readiness Certificate. For more information visit: http://www.act.org/workkeys/overview/business.html
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