One of many skill assessments offered to customers of the Maricopa Workforce Connections (MWC) Career Center in Gilbert is the National Professional Certification in Customer Service (NRF).

Maricopa Workforce Connection has received a $3 million federal grant to help residents compete with visa holders from abroad for jobs in information technology, engineering/manufacturing and biotechnology.

Is look for a new job one of the top ten items on your list of New Year’s resolutions? If so, Maricopa Workforce Connections (MWC), MAXIMUS and the Arizona Department of Economic Security has an opportunity for you!

Are you looking to earn your General Education Development (GED) diploma? If so, then Maricopa Workforce Connections’ Gilbert Career Center, located at 735 N. Gilbert Road, is the place for you!

Are you looking to earn your General Education Development (GED) diploma? If so, then Maricopa Workforce Connections’ Gilbert Career Center, located at 735 N. Gilbert Road, is the place for you!

Unlike their counterparts in the past, 2006 graduates are facing a positive job outlook. Employers are planning to hire more new graduates and are offering higher salaries than were offered to last year’s graduates.

Technology hiring should hold steady in 2008. Wait, no, it’ll be on the upswing. Oops. Hold that thought. The outlook is actually rather vague.

The vice president and general manager of Intel’s Fab/Sort manufacturing site in Chandler said in a speech last week that the company’s vision through the end of the decade is to “create and extend computing technology to connect and enrich the lives of every person on Earth.”

APS Foundation is tackling a new focus with the new year: Arizona student performance in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, commonly referred to as STEM.

General Motors will open a new information technology innovation center in the Phoenix suburb of Chandler and begin hiring what will eventually be 1,000 high-tech employees to staff the new location beginning in April, the company announced Wednesday.

A career fair and expo focusing on careers in the alternative energy and environmental sectors will be held Jan. 6, 2009 in Phoenix.

Chandler Airpark has landed a technology products and services company that plans to open a sales center there with a workforce of 450 people.

The City of Chandler is celebrating science with three days dedicated to the exploration of invention. The Chandler Science Spectacular is part of the Arizona SciTech Festival, a statewide movement to promote and celebrate science in our daily lives and to earn recognition for Arizona as a science and technology hub.

Insight Enterprises, a Tempe-based distributor of information technology equipment and services, said Monday it laid off about 240 employees across the United States, about 4 percent of its worldwide workforce and 8 percent of its North American workforce.

Imagine if your company wasn’t able to reward its best employees with raises, wasn’t able to hire new employees when they were needed, and was forced to tolerate poor performers and malcontents because of a bureaucratic maze that made firing almost impossible.

Scottsdale Community College will launch a program that combines computers with biosciences next year with the help of a $118,260 state Proposition 301 grant.

Wanted: More engineers, more incentives to lure businesses, more education on a global scale about what the Valley and Arizona have to offer.

The Phoenix City Council has approved an Economic Development Strategic Plan to position Phoenix as a globally competitive and sustainable city.

To take advantage of one of the fastest growing commercial markets in Arizona, the Chandler Chamber of Commerce is opening a new business center at its headquarters.

Mesa Community College's program to train high-tech workers will be showcased when President Bush attends a town hall discussion today at the college.

September 7, 2004

Imagine if your company wasn’t able to reward its best employees with raises, wasn’t able to hire new employees when they were needed, and was forced to tolerate poor performers and malcontents because of a bureaucratic maze that made firing almost impossible.

State lawmakers are moving to ensure that your Facebook password is none of your boss's business.

As a junior at Scottsdale’s Chaparral High School, Landry Low loved to sew and dreamed of working in fashion design, but wasn’t sure how she would get there. Then at a school event, this 4.6-GPA honors student happened to spot a pamphlet for the East Valley Institute of Technology in Mesa.