ELKHART — Northern Indiana has some hurdles to overcome to position its workforce and industry to take advantage of the future, but there are already significant efforts under way to address those problems.
That’s the essence of a report commissioned by the Corporate Partnership for Economic Growth (CPEG) in response to business concerns about gaps between open jobs and unemployed workers who don’t qualify for those jobs.
The Talent Roadmap for Northern Indiana, put together by an Indianapolis firm, “reinforced many of the trends that our region has faced. I think it’s more positive that what we anticipated,” said Shawn Peterson, president of CPEG, a regional group. The report showed that in Elkhart and four other counties, “It’s not as large of a skill gap in some ways. In some ways, though, we do have things we can work on and address,” Peterson said.
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