A Positive Forecast for Local Business Engagement

Our business team is working daily to become a strategic asset to Montgomery County businesses. We are in constant contact on a weekly basis with companies in our 5 industry clusters: healthcare, cyber/ IT, hospitality, construction, and bioscience. Our goal is to help these industry clusters identify qualified talent. We’ve had positive responses from key companies in the county. Take a look at three exciting developments.

1. We are working with organizations like Holy Cross Health and Adventist HealthCare to become a recognized human resource partner. We are a key source in recruiting highly-skilled talent. To date, we’ve provided a number of possible talent leads to these two healthcare leaders, and plan to continue to provide resources for their continued success.
2. We have partnered with large construction companies in the county to provide candidates for their hard-to-fill openings. We held a hiring and recruitment event for Shapiro & Duncan Mechanical Contractors in September and have scheduled ongoing events to help support their expansion of adding more than 100 employees.Another company we are excited to work with moving forward is Grid Alternatives that has plans to launch a workforce training program in Montgomery County to provide job skills in solar installation to county residents. We are helping to identify, vet, and qualify women and men who are interested in this occupational specialty. We are confident that this training program can be a great win for our area when it launches in the Spring or Summer of 2019.
3. Our support for Discovery Communications is evolving. At their request, we will now have the ability to assist employees in a more integrated fashion. We hope to provide a direct link to our career specialists to outgoing employees and to provide real-time support in transitioning to local employers. Learn more about our partnership to help keep Discovery’s talent in Montgomery County in our recent press release.

To get in contact with a member of our business solutions team, visit our new webpage.