This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: the Podcast” is with Chytania Brown, president and CEO of Employ Milwaukee, the workforce development board for Milwaukee County.
The organization’s mission is focused on employment and education, helping to connect employers and job seekers and meeting the needs of both groups.
“We offer trainings, we offer customized opportunities with employers, if there’s employers that have a specific need,” she said. “So as a workforce development board, we’re that coordinating, collaborating, monitoring body.”
Brown discusses some of Employ Milwaukee’s programs such as job fairs, funding on-the-job training sessions and transitional job initiatives, as well as how the board helps address workforce shortages in the region.
“Through the funding that we receive from the federal government, we may be able to help offset some of that training cost that the employers have to endure, to skill up these bodies or bring in new bodies to meet that demand,” she said.
While the board currently works with a wide array of employers, Brown says “there’s so many that we have not even touched.” Employ Milwaukee aims to better understand the needs of businesses in the area, including how pandemic-era trends have shifted the employment landscape.
Listen to the podcast below, sponsored by UW-Madison:
