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The Pennsylvania Chamber Foundation invites you to a free public service roundtable Help Wanted: The Skilled Worker And Business Leader Shortage Crisis, from 8 a.m. to noon Tuesday, July 31, 2007 at the Holiday Inn Harrisburg-Hershey, Grantville, PA.

Designed for presidents, business owners, HR professionals, supervisors, department heads and other business executives who hire in Pennsylvania, in addition to local chamber executives and state association executives, this event will provide practical, concrete advice on how the business community can cope with the current and anticipated shortage of qualified, skilled employees and business leaders.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects a shortfall of 10 million workers in the United States, with more than 25 percent of the working population reaching retirement age by 2010.

What you'll learn

• Strategies and innovative programs to hire, retain and retrain employees
• Information on programs such as upgrading employees' skills and helping with work transitions; identifying and developing leaders; assisting women and minorities on the route to top management; promoting math and science in middle schools and beyond
• Advice on what companies, and our country, need to do in order to stay competitive
• Solutions from the perspectives of a large employer, a temporary hiring firm, and a small entrepreneur (all based in Pennsylvania)
• How a staffing firm recruits skilled and qualified workers to fill company shortages
• What businesses need to do to step up their hiring practices from the perspective of a woman-owned business
• Evaluating the current methods used by your HR professionals to hire and keep good workers
• What individuals in charge of hiring should be doing
• How the HR Director and CEO can work together to incorporate planning for the future work force into the company's overall growth strategy
• How to recruit and retain more women and minorities
• The skills training that organizations need to have in place to prepare newly hired high school and college graduates

Who should attend

• Presidents, Business Owners
• HR Professionals
• Department Heads and Supervisors who hire and retain workers
• State Trade Association Executives who can use this information to educate their members
• Local Chamber Executives who can use this information to educate their members
• Businesses that already are facing worker shortages
• Anyone responsible for hiring

For further information on this conference or event, please contact Sue Smith at 717-720-5457 or ssmith@pachamber.org

The Holiday Inn Harrisburg/Hershey is a full service hotel with more than 20,000 square feet of flexible, configurable meeting space and full banquet and catering service. Fifteen separate meeting rooms can accommodate from ten to 600 people for corporate meetings, conventions, trade shows and retreats.

Success Performance Solutions takes the guesswork out of hiring, motivating, retaining, and training employees. SPS services include best-practice personality assessments, behavioral interview question guides and performance management solutions via real-time assessment technology at costs affordable to both the small business owner and large Fortune companies.

Since 1975, JFC Staffing Associates has set the standard for excellence in the staffing industry. JFC is the full-service solution to meet your company's staffing needs on a temporary, contract or direct hire basis.

For sponsorship information on this and other events, please visit the Promote Your Business section of our website or contact Laurel Belding (717 720-5425, 877 227-7375 or lbelding@pachamber.org).