The Oklahoma Hotel & Lodging Association, Oklahoma Restaurant Association, Oklahoma CareerTech, OKC Convention & Visitors Bureau, Visit Norman, HeartLine and United Way of Central OK will host the Central Oklahoma Hospitality Job Fair Friday, June 18.
Starting June 22, Oklahoma's Aerospace and Cybersecurity Center of Workforce Excellence will offer unique aerospace training to Oklahoma's oil and gas engineers, enabling them to pursue careers in the aerospace field in Oklahoma.
As the world begins to emerge from the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, OKC is well-positioned to host groups, and with the advent of the new OKC Convention Center, the opening of the Omni Hotel, the recent expansion of ASA Hall of Fame Stadium and other assets, business has begun to pick up.
OMRF physician-scientist Patrick Gaffney, M.D., and Harvard researcher Jason Buenrostro, Ph.D., received a five-year grant to study how the DNA of people with lupus differs from those without the condition.
Chamber member HIS Paint is a locally owned manufacturing company that produces paint for residential and architectural usage. They are also well-known for their production of industrial coatings for everything from oil & gas to aerospace, but you may not know as much about their second-chance employment efforts and paint recycling program.
If you haven’t thought of apprenticeships as a workforce development tool, you’re not alone. But apprenticeships can be utilized in a much wider variety of industries than you might think.
The health of the Oklahoma City metro’s warehouse and distribution sector is reflected in recent data published by labor market analytics firm Emsi that shows between 2010 and 2020, the number of jobs within the sector grew by 56% or 10,000 jobs.
Among U.S. metros with over 1 million population, Oklahoma City ranked third for the lowest percentage of severely cost burdened middle-income households.
