JOB ONLINE TRAINING AND JOB CERTIFICATION

National Broadband Plan and Job Training - This is a Video [You need flashplayer to view]

Summary: JOB TRAINING FCC Participants: Jing Vivatrat, Director of Workforce Development Kristen Kane, Director of National Purposes Erik Garr, Staff Director for National Broadband Plan

Panel: Christopher Edward Etesse, VP, Presidium Learning Eric Winegardner, VP, Client Adoption, Monster Worldwide Tim Hill, President, Blackboard Professional Education Yvette Herrera, Senior Director, Education and Communications, Communications Workers of America Heather McKay, Director, the Sloan Center on Innovative Training and Workforce Development; Director of Innovative Training and Workforce Development Programs at the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University Richard Horne, Ed.D., Supervisory Research Analyst, Office of Disability Employment Policy, U.S. Department of Labor Kermit Kaleba, Senior Policy Analyst, Workforce Alliance

ETA will be a key resource to the Administration’s “Green Jobs” initiative. The Green Jobs Act would support on-the-ground apprenticeship and job training programs to meet growing demand for green construction professionals skilled in energy efficiency and renewable energy installations. The Act envisions sound and practical energy investments for 3 million new jobs by helping companies retool and retrain workers to produce clean energy and energy efficient components or end products that will result in residential and commercial energy savings, industry revenue, and new green jobs throughout the country.

To better serve the workforce system and its efforts to support green jobs and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, ETA has developed a draft green jobs framework for action. The framework identifies the foundational and operational elements required for serving the needs of the workforce system and its customers. It is designed to promote the development of new and existing green jobs, and hasten widespread employment in green careers across several industry sectors.