Wednesday, May 24, 2023
IL Announces Blue Collar Jobs Act (BCJA) Tax Credit Program
Incentives provide up to 75 percent income tax credits on construction jobs for eligible companies through the Blue Collar Jobs Act (BCJA) Tax Credit program.
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Wednesday, May 24, 2023
Incentives provide up to 75 percent income tax credits on construction jobs for eligible companies through the Blue Collar Jobs Act (BCJA) Tax Credit program.
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Kankakee Community College has added a free interactive tool to its website that helps students and prospective students find careers that match their interests. The software, called Emsi Career Coach, tailors career options for users based on questions about themselves. The personalized results include career titles, labor market data and academic programs that could lead to those demand occupations. The software can also be used to build resumes and connect to job openings locally and regionally. Career Coach is free and is available for anyone to use.
Thursday, May 7, 2020
If you and your employer have already experimented with a distributed team, you know that many of the major concerns around remote work — compromised productivity, camaraderie and accountability — were grossly overstated and easily checked. But the question of how to maintain a happy remote team — that takes a lot of care and intentionality.
Thursday, April 2, 2020
Change is the universe’s default. Progress, at its best, is positive change. As we together weather the unprecedented global reverberations presented by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, subsequent shelter-in-place precautions, and tremendous personal and business losses, it is tempting to abandon the notion of progress. But that would be a tragic mistake.