Tag Archive for: Workforce development

Points of Light Conference Sparks Opportunity Employment Initiative
When recent high school graduates Nichelle Johnson and Tranetta Luque began their jobs as customer care center clerks atºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, they were excited. They knew they landed well-paying jobs with full benefits, a retirement savings plan and excellent long-term career opportunities at the only Fortune 500 company headquartered in their hometown of New Orleans.

Investing in Our Future
​Entergy is committed to working with local educational institutions to develop a workforce that can support the continued economic development of the Gulf South region as well as support Entergy's own workforce needs.

Entergy and Southern University Announce $2M Engineering Education Initiative
Entergy has partnered with Southern University to further support their mutual commitment to developing engineering talent for the future. A $2 million grant to Southern University from Entergy and the Entergy Charitable Foundation will support classroom and lab infrastructure improvements, as well as curriculum and faculty professional development for the university’s engineering program.

Entergy launches five-year, $5 million workforce development initiative to help build highly trained workforce required by complex technologies
The replacement of humans by robots in the workforce and society has been a recurring theme in literature since Karel Capek first coined the term robot in 1920. However, despite the prognostications of Capek and generations of sci-fi writers who followed, rumors of human obsolescence are greatly exaggerated, as underscored by the results of Area Development magazine’s annual corporate survey.

Entergy Companies Invest More Than $1M to Develop Louisiana Workforce
To help meet the workforce needs of Louisiana’s rapid economic growth, Entergy’s Louisiana companies announced today an investment of more than $1 million in shareholder dollars to support local workforce development training programs.

Entergy Mississippi Invests More Than $1M in Workforce Pipeline
Entergy Mississippi, Inc. will make a multi-year investment of more than $1 million from shareholders to help prepare the state’s workforce and raise its competitive level to attract business and industry.

Entergy Building Workforce through New Partnership
Expanding workforce training and readiness programs in Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana is the purpose of a new $250,000 grant to Jobs for America’s Graduates from ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø.