There aren’t enough qualified Oklahomans to keep up with the growth in jobs related to the aerospace, energy, and information technology industries. At a committee meeting Thursday, lawmakers, education officials and agency officials discussed ways to fix the skills gap, which is expected to worsen. The biggest growth area in Oklahoma is in jobs that [...]
The growth of Oklahoma’s biotechnology sector might be outpacing the pool of potential employees. Thomas Kupiec is the CEO of three biotech companies headquartered in the Oklahoma City metro area, which The Journal Record‘s Sarah Terry-Cobo reports have been in a “perpetual hiring phase.” But when Kupiec travels to Boston next week to attend the [...]
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