Workforce Training

Recruitment and training for your workforce of today and the future.

Salem is uniquely equipped with many flexible and responsive workforce training resources to connect you to Salem's job ready workforce, including specialized or custom training programs to serve your needs.

Training on demand. Through the Workforce Integration Network, an exemplary partnership among several Salem institutions that includes: Enterprise for Employment and Education, SEDCOR, and Chemeketa Community College; we can provide funding, recruitment, and training to deliver a workforce that's geared up and ready to go when a relocating or expanding business opens its doors. Through these collaborations, we'll help expedite and energize your relocation or startup, workforce recruitment or retention, regulatory assistance and logistics development.

For businesses that depend on regional reserves of graduate and post-graduate recruits, Salem is ideally situated. We stand at the nucleus of 14 public colleges and universities (as well as many other private institutions). These include world-class schools in engineering, healthcare, and business who work closely with industry to design and deliver programs tailored to their needs. Learn more about our People and our community-wide commitment to life-long learning.

Here, public agencies and private industry team up to support Salem’s new business ventures. Call us and let us help expedite and energize your relocation or startup, workforce recruitment and retention, regulatory assistance and logistics development. Learn more about City services, resources and incentives for business.

More workforce training resources:

Chemeketa Community College: Center for Business and Industry:

365 Ferry Street SE -The Center for Business & Industry has established itself as an excellent workforce and business development resource. We identify performance gaps and offer training programs to build high performance organizations. It is our top priority to coordinate, deliver, and evaluate assistance that is targeted to you and your organization.

Enterprise for Employment and Education:

250 Church Street SE - The Enterprise is a public-private partnership venture dedicated to strategic workforce solutions. We work with businesses, education and training organizations, county and state governments, foundations and non-profits to identify and address the current and future workforce needs of Marion, Polk, and Yamhill counties.

Department of Community Colleges and Workforce Development:

Information available on the site includes career pathways roadmaps, links to Oregon and national sites, a marketing/ communications plan, community college action plans, a pathways glossary and materials from a June 2007 Academy. The site continues to be a work in progress and will be updated regularly to reflect information gained as we continue to pursue innovations and alignment among workforce and education partners.

Portland State Extended Campus Program:

4061 Winema Place NE - Bldg 49- Portland State University’s Extended Campus programs offer flexibility and convenience as you manage multiple life commitments and the completion of your educational goals. PSU Extended Campus Programs offers courses and degrees using both partially, and fully online options. You can finish your bachelor’s degree online whether you live across the state or across the globe.