Nov-15-11 Deputy Commissioner Presented Talent Networks and Internship Center to Mercer County Chamber
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Held on the Princeton campus of the Educational Testing Services (ETS), the dinner was hosted by ETS and Richard Stockton College, which partnered last spring to create the Internship Center.
The goal of the center, said Constable, is to form collaborations among businesses and higher education, not-for-profits and government to develop a pool of talent and an infrastructure that promotes meaningful employment opportunities for students.
Constable said the center and LWD’s newly formed “Talent Networks” operate on the premise: that there is a disconnect between the training received by our talented workforce and the skills New Jersey’s most prosperous industries need to find in prospective employees.
LWD has launched “Talent Networks” around six industry sectors in New Jersey employing more than half the people and paying more than two-thirds of the wages paid annually in the state. The “Talent Networks” are tapping employers in those promising industries to identify the skills and talents they need to find in prospective employees and passing that information on to universities, our colleges, training providers and schools.
