Registered Nurse
Registered nurses (RNs) provide and coordinate patient care.
there’s a career waiting here for you.
Our recent All Business podcast takes us back to school where we are talking to Dr. Ruth Patterson at Olney Charter High School in Philadelphia about their JAG program—Job’s for America’s Graduates. Listen in and learn how this program is teaching students employability skills and increases their workforce opportunities, all while reducing poverty and unemployment.
Registered nurses (RNs) provide and coordinate patient care.
Repair automobiles, trucks, buses, and other vehicles.
Develop, create, and modify general computer applications software or specialized utility programs.
Workforce SpotlightOne of the breakout sessions during the PA Chamber’s first-ever Innovation Summit in May featured a discussion by Thaddeus Stevens College President Dr. William Griscom, and High Companies CEO Mike Shirk, about their respective organizations’ unique partnership. The school and the corporation are working together to ensure that students graduate with the skills necessary to enter into promising careers — many of which are at the High Companies — that not only pay well, but have a clear path to future success. This workforce-centric collaboration is helping to address Pennsylvania’s jobs skills gap while also ensuring that the talent and work ethic the Thaddeus Stevens College helps to instill is staying right here in the Commonwealth.
Student Success Stories
Where you are from? Linesville, Pennsylvania
What sparked your interest in a career in the skilled trades? From early on, I learned the value of hard work and integrity. I grew up in a small, blue-collar town and that had a great influence on the vocation I chose to pursue, as well as the occupations my family held. My father was a sheet metal worker and is currently a welder at a tool and die facility, my mother works at a meat processing company, and my brothe...
During the next decade, twelve million U.S. businesses will be changing hands – successfully, or not. According to Development Dimensions International, the rate of failure for new executives is up to 60 percent within the first 18 months; and within five years, two-thirds of executive hires will fail.
