Tag: Nina Pande
PBN summit panel: Companies need to fine-tune their perks
In today’s job market, companies that hold strictly to pre-pandemic work expectations, such as rigid schedules and full-time office hours, tend to struggle to...
Business leaders encourage flexibility, creativity to meet workforce needs
PROVIDENCE — With employers in nearly every industry reporting recruitment and retention as among their largest challenges – if not the largest – employers...
Hiring? Embrace the nontraditional
Nina Pande | Skills for Rhode Island’s Future executive director
Diversity, inclusion and work-life balance are business-critical imperatives that will continue shaping hiring practices as...
Skills for Rhode Island’s Future intentionally building inclusive work environment
PBN Diversity and Inclusion Awards 2021
Editor’s Choice – Community Impact Award: Skills for Rhode Island’s Future
Nina Pande, executive director of Skills for Rhode...
A reversal of fortune on jobs front
WORKFORCE
After working for years to create new jobs in Rhode Island, state labor officials have been faced with an unusual problem recently. In some...
High school internships offer employers advantages
There has never been a better time for employers to recruit and develop a broader, more diverse talent pool than now. The new reality...
Unchartered training: How does region build workforce for new wind sector?
Toiling hundreds of feet above the open ocean, sometimes amid stormy weather and battering waves, technicians in the offshore wind industry need not only...
Governor’s panel tackles workforce issues
PROVIDENCE – Issues associated with Rhode Island's workforce were discussed during Gov. Daniel J. McKee's weekly R.I. 2030: Community Conversations event on Thursday.
A panel...
R.I. Foundation launches initiative to develop recommendations for state on stimulus...
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Foundation announced Wednesday that, with the support of the Economic Progress Institute and the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council,...
Crisis not holding back R.I. internship initiative
Rida Jawed’s summer job was not the standard summer-before-college gig.
Rather than slinging burgers or lifeguarding at a community pool, the 19-year-old Lincoln High School...
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