by - June 23, 2025 3:54 pm
You can’t feed the future without the people who build it. Behind every farm, hatchery, and processing plant is a welder, technician, and truck driver who builds it, fixes it,…
by - February 18, 2025 3:58 pm
Be Pro Be Proud, an initiative by the Associated Industries of Arkansas to help students launch careers in high-demand technical professions, has announced its expansion into Alabama in collaboration with…
by - September 25, 2024 1:29 pm
The Arkansas National Guard has partnered with Be Pro Be Proud to increase brand awareness of the state’s military as an option for Arkansas’ students as career choices after high…
by - August 28, 2024 2:37 pm
Be Pro Be Proud, an initiative created by the Associated Industries of Arkansas to help students explore, plan and launch careers in high-demand technical professions, has expanded into Texas in…
by - May 23, 2024 9:12 pm
Be Pro Be Proud, an Arkansas-founded national workforce development initiative focused on attracting students to technical careers, has elected trucking industry veteran Connie Vaughan of Cleveland, Tenn., and steel executive…
by - April 14, 2024 7:17 am
Be Pro Be Proud Arkansas, a workforce development initiative led by the Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce/Associated Industries of Arkansas (AIA), hosted its “Draft Day” event at the Northwest Arkansas…
by - July 10, 2022 11:01 am
Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Randy Zook has been working to resolve the state’s labor dilemma with all the tools he can muster. With baby boomers retiring…
by - March 15, 2022 6:47 pm
When Gov. Asa Hutchinson was growing up on a farm in Northwest Arkansas, his father had to work a manufacturing job in Tulsa, Okla. Each week, he’d leave on a…
by - February 9, 2022 8:18 am
Arkansas businesses across the industry spectrum have long-faced a well-known workforce problem: an increasing percentage of their highly technical-skilled employees are at or nearing retirement age and an adequate pipeline…
by - January 25, 2022 8:10 am
Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced Monday (Jan. 24) the approval of a $1.4 million grant to add a second Be Pro Be Proud mobile workshop for jobs development and recruiting. The…
by - June 15, 2016 9:52 am
More than one-hundred vendors, local businesses and industry partners visited Hass CNC Machine Tools in Little Rock on Tuesday (June 14) to get a firsthand look at the company’s hi-tech…
by - March 8, 2016 2:49 pm
A State Chamber of Commerce-led public-private partnership unveiled a new workforce initiative Tuesday with the help of Gov. Asa Hutchinson that is aimed at shrinking the “skills gap” that exists…
