As thousands of jobs remain unfilled across West Virginia, WV Forward is posting a jobs portal that serves as a front door to statewide job platforms and listings.
View the WV Jobs site.
“Making sure West Virginia can attract and retain the best and brightest is one of the top ways to expand our talent pool and fill job openings, driving long-term economic prosperity,” said Rochelle Goodwin, WV Forward member and WVU’s senior associate vice president for academic and public strategy. “Hopefully, this simple landing page will make the job search process just a little easier.”
While thousands of graduates are hanging up their caps and gowns and looking to start their careers, the portal also factors in as an opportune tool to help young professionals educated in West Virginia find jobs in West Virginia while drawing in new talent from across the world.
As the IT, cyber and healthcare sectors continue to grow in West Virginia, the WV Forward Blueprint has identified the importance to utilize West Virginia’s existing assets and structural advantages to grow these industries, make the state an attractive destination for talent and business development alike and fill job positions currently available.
“Never has the state had a greater need for economic diversification than it does now. This is especially true in regards to the development of a knowledge sector,” said Jim Estep, president of the High Technology Foundation and WV Forward collaborator.
“The good news is that progress is being made in creating jobs in technology fields such as software development and cybersecurity. However, we will never realize the full potential of this progress if we can’t fill these jobs with quality people in a timely manner. In this regard, it is not an overstatement that the deployment of this WV Jobs page is of critical importance to West Virginia’s future. Moreover, it must be a priority of the state to fund the wide-spread marketing of the site around the country.”
WV Forward is a statewide collaboration led by West Virginia University, the West Virginia Department of Commerce and Marshall University to help grow the economy by adding jobs, investing in education and improving health and wellness to create the most prosperous West Virginia possible.