WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A new state website can assist residents in Wichita and Sedgwick County to find jobs that are in the greatest demand and show how much they pay and where and how much training is necessary.
The Kansas Career Navigator website has information updated on the 10 most in-demand jobs in the state as well as in each of its more than 100 counties, the Wichita Eagle reported .
The website also provides information on current openings, the education or training required for them, and where residents can get such training and how much it’ll cost.
“I refer to it affectionately as the Swiss Army knife of literally finding a job in Kansas right now,” said Diane DeBacker, Kansas’ executive director of business and education innovation.
The site is the product of the state Department of Labor, Commerce and Education, as well as the Kansas Board of Regents.
“When you bring agencies together, even if you’re just bringing two together, there can be a lot of challenges just in having your technology talk to each other or having permission to share sensitive information,” said Lana Gordon, secretary of the Labor Department.
DeBacker said the website can also help high school students considering careers to identify early on what jobs they may want to train for after graduation. She also said the website will help Kansas businesses that have job opening but not the applicants who have skills to fill them.
“It really is responding to a couple of different things that are happening across the state,” DeBacker said. “One is the low unemployment rate. As the governor has said many times, we have jobs looking for people. This is one way to talk about that. And then as we see what is happening in our … education system … this is a way to start connecting all of the different initiatives going on.”
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Information from: The Wichita (Kan.) Eagle, http://www.kansas.com
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