Skills Training and Recruitment Program
The Department is seeking proposals
for a program that will promote recruitment and training in vocational and technical
fields. The program should utilize innovate techniques that reach out to parents,
counselors, and youth. MDES is issuing this Request for Proposal (RFP) for a one
year project which, if successful, will:
Promote sector strategy approaches that build partnerships of businesses, training
providers, community organizations, and other key stakeholders around specific
industries or sectors to address the workforce needs of business and training needs
of workers
Promote sector strategies that enable low-income, displaced and under-skilled
adults to acquire the knowledge and skills for success in high-growth industry
Promote vocational and technical career paths in high schools
Connect employers to job creation opportunities
Increase enrollment of graduating trainees attending short term certification
courses in vocational and technical career paths.
