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Human Capital
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Center of Innovation and
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More than 700,000 people are in the Gainesville-Hall labor market area (including Hall and adjoining counties). Talent is strong with more than 20,000 enrolled in area colleges and universities, and an additional 150,000 enrolled within an hour's drive. Gainesville-Hall County is the heart of Northeast Georgia’s transportation network and the community is an employment center for the region. The City of Gainesville’s daytime population expands from 30,000 at night to more than 100,000 during weekday working hours.
Finding and recruiting special talents and skills in Gainesville-Hall County is easy. Quality of life and employment opportunities are cited by newcomers and employers as major benefits for relocating to the community. Lifestyle choices include the Appalachian Mountains, Lake Lanier and Metropolitan Atlanta. Gainesville-Hall County was the 4th fastest growing metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. The median age of the workforce is young - 33 years.
Georgia’s state-of-the-art Center of Innovation and Manufacturing Excellence in Gainesville-Hall County provides Georgia businesses training support for the latest automation, robotic and control technologies.
Georgia’s Quick Start Training Program is nationally recognized for providing high-quality training services at no cost to new or expanding businesses in Georgia. Since 1967, Quick Start has provided customized training through Lanier Technical College to hundreds of businesses in the Gainesville-Hall County Area. www.georgiaquickstart.org
The Manufacturing Development Center is a business incubator program managed by Lanier Technical College in partnership with area businesses, local governments and economic development efforts. The center’s mission is to provide a nurturing environment to entrepreneurial manufacturers by providing a low-cost business location and start-up resources to assist entrepreneurs in the transition from a good idea to manufacturing a product.
HOPE - Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally - is Georgia’s unique scholarship program that rewards students with financial assistance in degree, diploma, and certificate programs.
Hope Scholarships can apply toward a student’s tuition, mandatory fees and books at eligible Georgia public colleges, and universities. To be eligible, students must be a Georgia resident and have graduated from a Georgia High School with a “B” average. Hope Scholarship recipients must maintain a “B” average to maintain the scholarship. www.gsfc.org
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The state’s 34 technical colleges have joined Georgia’s public and private postsecondary institutions in utilizing GeorgiaHIRE, an online database of Georgia college students and graduates. Georgia businesses will now have a larger pool from which to draw potential employees through the innovative employment search engine created by the University System of Georgia’s Intellectual Capital Partnership Program (ICAPP).
GeorgiaHIRE currently provides businesses with electronic access to more than 12,000 resumes of students and alumni from the state’s 35 public colleges and universities in the University System of Georgia, and 23 private institutions throughout the state. The database will grow significantly with the addition of DTAE’s students.
The launch of the new and expanded GeorgiaHIRE website – www.GeorgiaHire.com – coincides with the new DTAE partnership. The updated website will house the resume database of students from all of GeorgiaHIRE’s participating institutions.
Employers can search the website 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The site provides any Georgia company, regardless of size or location, access to talent from around the state. There is no cost for students at participating GeorgiaHIRE institutions to post a resume on the site or for companies to search the resumes for specific workforce needs. GeorgiaHIRE also allows employers to post jobs for a small fee.
For Economic Development information:
Tim Evans (770) 532-6206 or email Tim
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