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Employer

Michigan Works! Southwest Certified Business Solutions Professionals are here to meet current and future job recruitment demands for a skilled workforce. Michigan Works! Southwest has access to talent in Southwest Michigan and can help you find qualified job applicants that match your unique employment needs. Our goal is to build mutually beneficial relationships to assist in job postings, accepting applications, organizing job fairs, and facilitating on-the-job training. These partnerships allow us to give second chances to in-need applicants, and to help fill positions for qualified job applicants.

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Job Seeker

Michigan Works! Southwest is here to provide the resources you need for your career exploration and job search and supply the motivation to find a job that’s right for you. Michigan Works! Southwest staff meet you where you’re at in your job search; whether you’re unemployed and looking for immediate employment, or underemployed and interested in programs to grow your job skills, Michigan Works! Southwest wants to help you succeed.

We Are:

Customer Centered – Integrity Driven – Dedicated to Excellence – Equity Focused – Collaborators – Innovative Problem Solvers

What We Do:

Prepare a qualified workforce to meet the current and emerging needs of business and industry, through data driven decision making.

How We Will Succeed:

Fostering collaborative partnerships and empowering a compassionate, respectful, and knowledgeable team dedicated to continuous improvement.

Why We Exist:

To create meaningful transformation in the people, businesses, and communities we serve.

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News and Success Stories

Allied Mechcanical Services, Inc Highlight

Allied Mechanical Services, Inc. (AMS) is one of Michigan’s largest and most experienced full-service mechanical contracting firms. To equip and train the next generation of plumbers and pipefitters, AMS established its Department of Labor-certified apprenticeship program in 2004. The apprenticeship is a paid, four-year program that develops apprentices in both the plumbing and pipefitting trades. Classes combine bookwork along with hands-on training. When not in class, apprentices gain on-the-job training at an AMS jobsite. Since…

Michigan Works! Southwest, becomes an Intermediary in partnership with the USDOL Office of Apprenticeship

SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN – On Thursday, August 15, representatives from Michigan Works! Southwest and the United States Department of Labor (USDOL) gathered for a signing event in which Michigan Works! Southwest officially became an intermediary with the USDOL to hold standards for apprenticeship programs. Michigan Works! Southwest Workforce Development Board members, Brian O’Donnell and Frank Tecumseh, as well as Kristine Stevens from Glen Oaks Community College, were also in attendance. “As an intermediary with the USDOL…

A-1 Refrigeration Testimonial

“A-1 Refrigeration is incredibly grateful to the Michigan Works! Southwest Business Solutions team for assisting with securing funding for our apprenticeship training program. While we do have affiliates for the structure and formalization of our program, we are completely self-funded. This expense is sometimes a burden, but we believe so strongly in homegrown talent that we are willing to absorb the expense to guarantee our future workforce. Our program and culture are so well represented…

Meet Cherise Buchanan, Shining Star for June 2024!

Meet Cherise Buchanan, Michigan Works! Southwest Shining Star for June 2024! Cherise is a great leader who is always willing to go out of the way to assist participants and staff alike, including helping three of her team members successfully transition into new positions, which has demonstrated she is incredibly encouraging and supportive of her staff’s endeavors. Cherise has also taken on additional responsibilities and has stepped up to give direction and assist with finding…

Allied Mechcanical Services, Inc Highlight

Allied Mechanical Services, Inc. (AMS) is one of Michigan’s largest and most experienced full-service mechanical contracting firms. To equip and train the next generation of plumbers and pipefitters, AMS established its Department of Labor-certified apprenticeship program in 2004. The apprenticeship is a paid, four-year program that develops apprentices in both the plumbing and pipefitting trades. Classes combine bookwork along with hands-on training. When not in class, apprentices gain on-the-job training at an AMS jobsite. Since…

Michigan Works! Southwest, becomes an Intermediary in partnership with the USDOL Office of Apprenticeship

SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN – On Thursday, August 15, representatives from Michigan Works! Southwest and the United States Department of Labor (USDOL) gathered for a signing event in which Michigan Works! Southwest officially became an intermediary with the USDOL to hold standards for apprenticeship programs. Michigan Works! Southwest Workforce Development Board members, Brian O’Donnell and Frank Tecumseh, as well as Kristine Stevens from Glen Oaks Community College, were also in attendance. “As an intermediary with the USDOL…

A-1 Refrigeration Testimonial

“A-1 Refrigeration is incredibly grateful to the Michigan Works! Southwest Business Solutions team for assisting with securing funding for our apprenticeship training program. While we do have affiliates for the structure and formalization of our program, we are completely self-funded. This expense is sometimes a burden, but we believe so strongly in homegrown talent that we are willing to absorb the expense to guarantee our future workforce. Our program and culture are so well represented…

Meet Cherise Buchanan, Shining Star for June 2024!

Meet Cherise Buchanan, Michigan Works! Southwest Shining Star for June 2024! Cherise is a great leader who is always willing to go out of the way to assist participants and staff alike, including helping three of her team members successfully transition into new positions, which has demonstrated she is incredibly encouraging and supportive of her staff’s endeavors. Cherise has also taken on additional responsibilities and has stepped up to give direction and assist with finding…

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