Quality Jobs

With nearly 100,000 jobs and a payroll of $10.1 billion, advanced manufacturing accounts for 8 percent of the Portland-Southwest Washington region’s private sector employment and 11 percent of [...]

This October, the United States celebrates the 77th National Disability Employment Awareness Month. The month, organized by the United States Department of Labor celebrates the contribution of [...]

While the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced its Good Jobs Initiative in January 2022, the Southwest Washington-Portland region’s three workforce development boards have been tackling the [...]

As we celebrate Internship Awareness Month, Workforce Southwest Washington (WSW) takes pride in providing internship opportunities to local businesses through two programs, SummerWorks (for high [...]

When Julie Gorham and Esther Pisano met at a Vancouver gym, there was serendipity in the air. Julie Gorham is the Marketing Architect at Marketing EQ, a marketing agency in Vancouver, WA offering [...]

What makes a position a quality job? Workforce Southwest Washington (WSW) and its partners in the Columbia-Willamette Workforce Collaborative (CWWC) are seeking answers to that question. [...]

Banfield Pet Hospital is committed to fostering a culture where Associates have a sense of belonging and are empowered to impact change through their collective ideas and voices. Banfield started [...]

For summer 2021, WSW is expecting 80 young adults to participate in our SummerWorks program, a 100-hour internship, with approximately 40 businesses hosting the interns. Before the internship [...]

Workforce Southwest Washington leading group to develop a solution to increase childcare capacity Companies cannot successfully operate if their employees do not have affordable, dependable [...]

Workforce Southwest Washington (WSW) is partnering with Career Karma to train and place women, people of color and other traditionally underrepresented populations in tech jobs. The Career Karma [...]