February 2009

TrainingIndustry.com and CareerBuilder has joined forces to offer a custom designed job board for the U.S. training industry. You can search by pre-defined job titles for training professionals or you can search by keyword.

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Over the past few years, the role of the executive in charge of training has become very much glamorized. Chief learning officer, or CLO, has become a common title that leaders of training organizations claim to be, and even aspire to be. However, industry data tells us that less than 8% of the Fortune 1000 companies actually have a C-Level executive solely responsible for learning.

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Now that the stimulus package has passed, many corporate executives are working to ensure their company benefits from the plan. Although not a part of the stimulus package, most every state offers incentive grant programs to provide corporations with funding to help retain and develop jobs within their jurisdiction. We tend to think of competition for jobs as a federal issue due to the growth of offshoring. But competition between states is real and ongoing. This is why state governments offer corporate incentives to provide training that attracts and retains jobs.

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