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Workforce Alliance Names New Business Services Coordinator

May 1, 2017

Known for its incentive-based programs for employers funded by state and federal grants, Workforce Alliance created the position to help fulfill its mission to be guided by employer needs and to create pipelines of qualified jobseekers.

Lary will head up a team of business service professionals to provide customized assistance for employers to expand businesses through hiring, enhance the skills of existing workers and inform decision-making when it comes to employment and training resources in the South Central CT region.

"Experience shows that the best way to help jobseekers is to meet the needs of businesses in our region and in the state," said William Villano, Workforce Alliance's president and CEO. "By creating this unit, we will be more effective in not only offering services but understanding what employers need."

Workforce Alliance is one of five workforce development boards statewide, covering a 30-town area in Middlesex and New Haven counties stretching from Meriden and Middletown down to Greater New Haven, the Route 9 corridor and the eastern shoreline as far as Old Saybrook.

Prior to this, Lary worked directly with jobseekers who had been laid off, and in June will conclude a $1.5 million project under a grant from the U.S. Department of Labor that helped 150 people get rehired in STEM fields through on-the-job training grants to employers. Previously, she was a human resources professional for American Express and GE Private Equity.

Most of the team will include specialists who have worked on focused projects in the past. Going forward, employers will be able to work with one specialist and have access to the resources of multiple programs, including hiring incentives, worker training and recruitment. Through its regional network of American Job Centers, the business services team will inform career advisors working with job seekers what employers are looking for, and facilitate a good match based on screening, training and job readiness coaching. Annually, more than 15,000 people visit American Job Centers in South Central CT, or participate in targeted programs operated or funded by Workforce Alliance.

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