(from The Journal-Enterprise August 27, 2014)
by MATT HUGHES
J-E News Editor
Webster County’s Work Ready Committee held their official kick off Friday night at the Annex in Dixon. The committee has been working for nearly two years with the goal of having Webster County named ‘Work Ready’ by the state committee.
Kentucky Work Ready Executive Director Robert Curry spoke to local supporters on Friday.
“Congratulations on getting your Work Ready Community in Progress certification,” he said. “You are one of only 38 counties in the state that has been certified Work Ready or Work Ready in Progress.”
Curry, whose background is in workforce development, said that the work ready initiative is a very important one for communities that are looking to grow.
“Many times when companies are looking to expand, they go through a site selection contractor,” he explained. “In a 2012 survey of those contractors, they found that the single most important criteria for a potential site was the quality of the workforce.”
Communities must meet certain criteria to achieve the Work Ready or Work Ready in Progress designation. By meeting those criteria counties have taken a big step towards showing site selection contractors the quality of their workforce.
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