How Mercy Health, West Michigan is making the case for investing in frontline workers’ skills and careers…
What does a quality job look like? The Job Design Framework allows you to choose the combination of items that best fit the needs of…
The West Michigan region of the Trinity Health system implemented innovative talent acquisition processes that simultaneously improved quality of hire (reduced first-year turnover) and increased…
Many companies, especially in industries like tech and finance, struggle to increase the number of minorities and women in their ranks—even while consciously trying to…
Despite the ever-growing business case for diversity, roughly 85% of board members and executives are white men. Harvard Business Review conducted three studies to examine…
The Vocational Village is a first-of-its-kind skilled trades training program that aims to provide a positive learning community for prisoners who are serious about completing…
West Michigan employers should take advantage of the opportunity to hire returning citizens and reconsider restrictive policies they have against hiring people with criminal histories….
TalentFirst and West Michigan Works! have collaborated to create HireReach, a program designed to help employers meet their talent needs using a skills-based hiring process….
The purpose of this report is to educate TalentFirst member companies and the West Michigan employer community on effective strategies used by local companies to…
Irwin Seating Company utilizes a “Diversity Scorecard” to track education, purchasing, and employment activities for their organization. This is an easy way to get started…