Manpower adds job skills plan

Goal is to help workers find sustainable employment

ManpowerGroup, a Milwaukeebased global workforce solutions company, announced a plan Monday to help thousands of United States workers learn in-demand job skills.

The announcement comes after President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday creating the National Council for the American Worker, which will focus on worker training and education.

After signing the executive order, Trump also announced pledges from Walmart, Microsoft, General Motors and other companies to better align workers’ skills with industry demands and create at total of 3.7 million jobs.

Manpower joined those companies in supporting Trump’s workforce development initiatives with its pledge to help more than 130,000 American workers learn new in-demand job skills, or “upskill,” in the next five years.

The company offers accelerated learning programs, on-the-job training and certifications through its MyPath program. MyPath has a variety of online classes and certifications from short-term industry-specific training to 10-month programs, in addition to career resources.

Classes and training cover several different areas and fields, including software applications, programming, business, data management, health care and manufacturing.

In Milwaukee, Manpower partnered with Rockwell Automation in 2017 and formed the Academy of Advanced Manufacturing to train veterans for high-tech manufacturing jobs.

Becky Frankiewicz, president of ManpowerGroup North America, said the program graduated its third cohort of veterans last week and has shown training programs can be successful.

“With smart, targeted upskilling in fast growing industries like advanced manufacturing and health care, we’re helping people in Wisconsin increase their earning potential and move up,” Frankiewicz said in a statement.

The goal is to help workers find sustainable employment and help employers fill a growing number of job vacancies.