(INDIANAPOLIS) – Indiana’s adding jobs faster than it can fill them. The Indiana Chamber is wading into the push to train more workers.
The Chamber says its annual survey of member businesses found half of the nearly 700 who responded had to leave jobs open this year because they couldn’t find anyone with the necessary skills. That’s the fifth straight increase in that percentage.
The Chamber is repackaging some existing job-skills programs and adding some new ones to form the Institute for Workforce Excellence. Chamber President Kevin Brinegar says it’ll help businesses create their own talent pipeline, and steer them to the right state programs to match them with the workers they need.
Brinegar says the institute isn’t an attempt to compete with those state programs, but to add to them.
The institute includes the Chamber’s internship program, and will encourage businesses to do more to partner with schools to get students thinking early about the skills they’ll need. And the Chamber is reminding member businesses their workers can get a five-percent tuition rebate at Ivy Tech.
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