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Inform us about your profession goals.
Are you a teenager, or a father or mother of a teenager, attempting to determine what to do after highschool?
Are you an grownup who’d like to vary careers however you’re unsure how, otherwise you suppose the obstacles are too huge to beat? Or do you’re keen on the work you do however want it paid sufficient to help your loved ones?
Are you an employer with huge plans in your firm, for those who may simply discover employees with the correct abilities and coaching?
We wish to hear from you as Wisconsin Watch launches a brand new beat. We’re calling it pathways to success, and it explores how faculties and establishments are making ready folks to search out high quality, family-sustaining jobs in Wisconsin’s present and future economic system and the way they might do higher. In brief, we’ll give attention to the roles folks need and wish, and what’s getting of their method.
I’m Natalie Yahr, Wisconsin Watch’s first pathways to success reporter, and I’ve considered this challenge for greater than a decade. Earlier than this job, I spent about six years on the Cap Instances, the place I reported on the essential jobs Wisconsin will most wrestle to fill sooner or later, efforts of employees to arrange and the obstacles they generally encounter once they do. For a number of years earlier than that, I used to be a trainer and success coach for grownup college students searching for to get their highschool equivalency diplomas, begin new careers or simply study primary abilities they’d missed.
With this new beat, we intention to reply questions like why it’s typically difficult for foreign-trained professionals to restart their careers in Wisconsin, what it will take to make among the state’s fast-growing-but-low-paying jobs extra sustainable and the way are state and native governments investing in packages that put together employees for adjustments within the economic system. These are some preliminary questions now we have, however to make this beat work, we have to hear yours.
Your options and experiences will form what we cowl and the way. Name or e-mail me at 608-616-0752 or nyahr@wisconsinwatch.org, in English or Spanish.
I received’t be the one one masking this essential beat for Wisconsin Watch. We’re seeking to rent a further pathways reporter to particularly serve folks in northeast Wisconsin, whereas I’ll discover points that resonate statewide. I count on we’ll collaborate lots.
We’ll know we’re doing this reporting properly if it helps folks uncover new alternatives or make knowledgeable selections about their careers. As we begin publishing these tales, please tell us what you suppose.
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