Manufacturers and organizers at Easthampton’s Manufacturing Day event, hosted at Eastworks, say the field is experiencing a resurgence.

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MassHire Franklin Hampshire Career Center offers resources for teens as well as older workers seeking jobs via free services and entry to other career-training opportunities. 

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As the president and owner of VSS Inc. in Greenfield, Steven K. Capshaw used to face the chronic problem of having jobs he could not fill because of a lack of skilled workers.

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The main role of an institution like GCC, of course, is to prepare people — both young learners and older career transitioners — for jobs in a still-difficult economy. To that end, and perhaps more than ever before, the state’s community colleges are working closely with area economic-development bodies and local businesses to bridge the gap between education and career opportunities, to ensure that their graduates have the skills and training required to meet companies’ needs

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Greenfield Community College is using a federal grant to help students secure internships and prepare for jobs, aneort that will soon include the launch of a new career services website.

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After years of stagnation the economy is flowing again in Hampshire County.

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The problem is, while opportunities are out there, there are not enough new jobs to meet with demand and begin to bring down the region’s persistently high unemployment rate.

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Before leaving his home in Rio de Janeiro in 1994, Alex DeMelo worked as a stage actor for 15 years and found a home in the theater. Now, DeMelo is playing a role intimately involved in real life, as a newly minted certified nursing assistant at Charlene Manor Extended Care Facility.

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The Franklin Hampshire Regional Employment Board recognized Fitzgerald Fences, Inc.as its 2013 “Workforce Development Leader” at its 10th Annual Legislative Breakfast at Yankee Candle’s Chandlers Restaurant in South Deerfield.

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Even in Franklin County, the last thing you’d expect to find in the middle of a wooded setting on top of a mountain is a factory that churns out thousands of parts for satellite telecommunication systems or for diagnostic medical equipment.

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Precision manufacturing is one of the region’s fastest-growing industries, but students atFranklin County Technical School long had to learn machine skills using equipment that was in some cases more than 50 years old. Now, students are finally being given the modern tools they need to compete in this field.

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The Franklin Hampshire Regional Employment Board (FHREB) and Career Centers, along with leading manufacturing companies and partners from Greenfield Community College (GCC) and Franklin County Technical School (FCTS), are teaming up to provide a twelve-week program inprecision machining for unemployed and underemployed adults in the region.

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