More than 2,640 people have found jobs through ShaleNET, a comprehensive recruitment, training, placement and retention program for high-demand, hard-to-fill entry-level jobs across the Marcellus Shale footprint. That’s according to the March newsletter of the ShaleNET initiative, which was launched in July 2010.
Industry leaders, policy makers and educators will discuss ShaleNET [...]
The success of ShaleNET – linking more than 2,000 people with Marcellus Shale industry-related jobs – was recently profiled in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in a front page “Sunday Business” story. As P-G Energy and Business Reporter Erich Schwartzel notes in the article, there is not one unique “student profile.” People come to these trainings from all walks of [...]
Dow Jones Newswires reporter Isabel Ordonez visited southwestern Pennsylvania this spring to learn more about how companies tapping into the Marcellus Shale are building their workforces. Click here to read her article on the online site of The Wall Street Journal. You can also find her text below, copyright The Wall Street [...]
ShaleNET has announced in its current newsletter that 883 local workers have landed jobs in the natural gas industry since June 2010 as a result of its training and placement efforts.
ShaleNET is a multi-state, comprehensive recruitment, training, placement and retention program for jobs in the gas industry throughout [...]
ShaleNET; Docket in Your Pocket; Colussy Chevy on “Our Region’s Business”
In just 15 months, ShaleNET — a multi-state recruitment, training, placement and retention program for jobs in the gas industry — has graduated 65+ people. Many of these graduates have now landed good paying jobs in the burgeoning Marcellus Shale industry — an industry expected to grow steadily over the next several [...]
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