workforce development

City looking for innovators for ‘Smart Kingston’ working groups

Queen’s program hopes to solve the work-experience paradox for grads

City looking for innovators for ‘Smart Kingston’ working groups

Queen’s program hopes to solve the work-experience paradox for grads

Transition from Homelessness Project – Kingston Site Presentation

Transition from Homelessness Project – Kingston Site Presentation

February 12, 2020February 12, 2020 Tommy Vallier 0 Comments City of Kingston, Craig Desjardins, Jeff Bumstead, local issues, public involvement, seriously smart, smart kingston, smart kingston working group, Smart working groups, technology, workforce, workforce development

The City of Kingston is putting out an appeal for forward-thinking, innovative residents to help leverage technology to solve local problems. The appeal, which follows the Smart Kingston Symposium held in the fall, is hoping to create working groups that will feed information and ideas back into a larger conversation.

Business Campus Education News

November 14, 2019November 14, 2019 Tommy Vallier 0 Comments Alan Rottenberg, apprenticeship, Arts and Sciences, business, Donna Gillespie, employment, Kingston Economic Development, Kingston Economic Development Corporation (KEDCO), local business, qcak, Queen's Career Apprenticeship: Kingston Program, Queen's student, Queen's University, students, Tom Hewitt, workforce, workforce development

It has long been a paradox — employers want experience in a candidate before they’ll hire, but how does a new arts or humanities graduate earn that experience before they get a job? A program at Queen’s University, preparing for its third year, seems to have found the the answer.

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