South Carolina
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WORKFORCE EXPERTS
SC Department of Employment and Workforce
Cheryl Stanton, Executive Director Employment & Training
1550 Gadsden Street
PO Box 1406
Columbia, SC 29202
KEY WORKFORCE PRIORITIES
1.
Policy Advocacy:
Be the visionary and unified voice for workforce development in South Carolina.
2.
Integration and Consolidation:
Implement integration strategies that optimize all workforce efforts and drive innovation and accountability.
3.
South Carolina's One Stop System:
Build a consistent statewide delivery system that effectively meets the needs of employers in order to serve the people.
4.
Collaboration and Partnership:
Increase collaboration and partnership with economic development allies, the education community, and business.
5.
Communications:
Create effective two-way communications around visions, initiatives, and outcomes with internal and external stakeholders.
FAST FACTS
- Total nonagricultural employment increased by 12,600 from August 2009 to August 2010.
- Administration & Support Services (temporary agencies) industry posted a gain of 9,700 jobs from 2009 to 2010.
- Health Care & Social Assistance industry advanced by 5,200 jobs over the year (2009-2010).
- The unemployment rate peaked at 12.5% in January 2010, with the latest reports showing 11.0% in August.
- Looking at monthly labor force characteristics, unemployment rates are up across all race and gender categories as compared to year ago.
- Industry projections show the fastest growing industry, by percent change - 55.1% from 2008 to 2018, in South Carolina is Internet Service Provider (ISP), Search Portals & Data Processing . The second fastest growing industry is Ambulatory Health Care Services at 35.7%.
LOCAL WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARDS
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WORKFORCE TESTIMONIALS
We remain extremely grateful for your continued support of Elite ES, LLC and our employees. The Incumbent Worker Training (IWT) program has afforded us opportunities to provide much needed training to our staff. Without your assistance, Elite ES would not have been able to become ISO certified or upgrade the skills of our employees. We truly appreciate your professional and caring staff that is always available to help us with our training needs. This is a government-sponsored program that works well!
Ilias Alimohamed
"The training that has been completed through the Incumbent Worker Training program has helped us to remain competitive, and continue to employ workers in South Carolina. This is a wonderful program that has allowed us to continue to develop our workers to meet business requirements in a tough economic period."
Sandra Rivers
"It was time. Time for me to make that change. And that change came at the time of my last layoff (reduction in work-force). After registering for unemployment, I was introduced to A. Gomer, a case worker in the WIA program, who explained the program and how it would work to be retrained/educated from the field of electronics to a career in healthcare. Yes, it took my commitment but the program gave me the financial means to continue. And now I am (1) a certified Phlebotomist (2) a certified EKG Technician and (3) a certified Cardiac Care Technician. I am currently employed with Lexington Medical Center as an EKG Tech... Thanks to the WIA Program!"
