January 2017
Chamber Connection Your connection to the greater Hanover business community.
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Mission: We deliver value to our members and advance the interests of the business community.
Programs Benefit Future Hanover Workforce Punctual, professional and eager to learn. These are attributes that high school students can obtain by becoming involved with Chambersponsored school-to-work programs. Intro to Manufacturing, Intro to Healthcare, Ethical Decision Making and Career Camp are programs available to local high school students through partnerships between the Chamber, local schools and area businesses and manufacturers. Through these opportunities, students learn about local employment opportunities, responsibility and respect.
The Ethical Decision Making in the Workplace and Society Symposium is an all-day class that focuses on character building and doing the right thing. Students are placed with a business/ community representative who serves as their table leader.
It’s not only the students that benefit from school-to-work programs. Participating Hanover businesses welcome interested students to learn more about their business, showing area youth that good jobs are available in their own backyard. The area’s future workforce has the opportunity to learn about the great job and career opportunities available in the Hanover area. Skilled employees are needed in key areas including welding, industrial maintenance, quality control, physics and electronics, just to name a few.
Hanover Center for Workforce Excellence (HCWE) - HACC gives you access to affordable, high quality technical training! The HCWE also provides a number of HACC workforce training programs, including communication and soft skills, computer and IT classes.
Introduction to Manufacturing is an 18-week program designed to educate high school seniors about the manufacturing environment, potential career paths in manufacturing, and local career opportunities within the Hanover marketplace. ITM also provides students with the opportunity to earn 1 – 3 college credits in engineering at HACC. Introduction to Healthcare provides high school students the opportunity to earn college credits and nursing assistant certification. The 104-hour course is set forth by the profession of nursing and regulated by the state.
The Workplace and Career Readiness Camp is a summer program designed to expose incoming sophomores to career options - highdemand and non-traditional - within local Hanover businesses and industries.
The Intro to Manufacturing (ITM) program welcomed the class of 2016-17 in Sept. Approximately 20 students from Hanover and South Western school districts took part in the 18week program, designed to educate high school seniors about the manufacturing environment, potential career paths in manufacturing, and local career opportunities within the Hanover marketplace. This year’s participating class will speak to members at the January Eye-Opener Breakfast, held at Bay City Restaurant. Students will share their experience in the ITM program and members will learn how they can support workforce programs in the Hanover area. For more information, or to show support for these workforce initiatives by making a contribution, please visit hanoverchamber.com/ programs/workforce-development.
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