MOBILE WORKS HOSTS MOBILE AREA CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE Friday, Jun 16th, 2006 MOBILE WORKS HOSTS MOBILE AREA CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE
BUSINESS AFTER HOURS EVENT THURSDAY MAY 25, 2006
Over
150 Local Business People Representing over Sixty Mobile
Businesses
Attended The Event Held At The Alabama Career Center
MOBILE, Alabama
- June 16, 2006 - Mobile Works Inc. hosted the Mobile Area Chamber
of Commerce Business After Hours and New Member Welcome event at the
Alabama Career Center on Thursday, May 25, 2006. Well over 150 local
business people, representing over sixty Mobile-area businesses,
attended the event and many were exposed for the first time to the
Alabama Career Center and its many resources for businesses. President
Sydney Raine introduced the Honorable Sam Jones, Mayor of Mobile, as the
event's special guest speaker.
Mayor Jones' comments were the
highlight of the evening���he expressed to the attendees his belief that
Mobile Works was vitally important to the local business community, and
thus the Mobile economy, because it had invested heavily in local
businesses and had many resources at its disposal to help businesses
with their training needs. Jones also urged attendees to take advantage
of the many resources available at the Career Center.
According
to Raine, "We believe that we must explore new avenues to get in front
of the local community and expose them to the resources available from
Mobile Works and at the Alabama Career Center. It is at events like
these that business people are attracted to visit the Career Center
where they can see for themselves the resources at their disposal. We
are confident that many of those businesses that were not aware of us
before will be doing business us soon."
Mobile Works is
establishing a growing relationship with the Mobile Area Chamber of
Commerce and believes that it is key to attracting the attention of
local business. In 2005, Mobile Works contracted with the Mobile
Chamber to fund a Workforce Liaison, who was hired to work on the
development of industry clusters and other workforce and economic
development issues, that are critical to the mission of both
partners���and the Mobile economy. The establishment of the liaison
position is allowing Mobile Works to work with the Chamber to develop
targeted industry clusters, which will allow Mobile Works to
strategically target their training programs to the needs of key
business industries in Mobile.
Mobile Works has also supported
the Chamber by being a chamber member, advertising in The Business View,
their monthly magazine, sponsoring their annual Business & Technology
Expo in 2005 and again for 2006, and worked very closely with the
Chamber to hold the Hurricane Katrina Job Fair to aid hurricane victims
in finding new jobs quickly.
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Contact: Gia
Dinges
Director of Marketing
251-432-0909 -
phone
[email protected] - email
www.mobile-works.org -
website
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