Webinar Details

• Topic: Top Talent: How Small Employers Excel at Recruiting and Training
• Date: November 9, 2023
  
  

The webinar focused on practical and innovative ways for small employers to improve their hiring and retention practices. Participants heard from Dave Rea, Managing Director at Catalyst Connection about his work with the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP); Dina Rabiner, Vice President of Economic Development at the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce about their Good Help Staffing Services; and Heather Tinsley-Fix Senior Advisor of Employer Engagement from AARP, about their work with small employers and the innovative resources that AARP has produced focused on improving job quality.   

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Earlier this year, Reimagine Main Street launched a project to improve job quality with support from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Reimagine Main Street’s previous research on Good Jobs and small employers found that job quality is a significant driver of business performance. As a result, efforts to advance good jobs should accelerate growth and increase the profitability of small businesses, create incentives for already strong small companies to improve job quality, and stimulate innovations across markets and policy to make affordable benefits available at scale. This partnership between Reimagine Main Street and the Department of Commerce builds on the insights from that work. 

About Reimagine Main Street

Reimagine Main Street, a project of the Public Private Strategies Institute, is a multi-stakeholder, cross-sector initiative that brings small business leaders, investors, experts, and policymakers together with business owners and the people they employ. We engage diverse stakeholders and develop data-driven insights to shape and inform market opportunities and policy.

About the Department of Commerce

The Department of Commerce’s mission is to create the conditions for economic growth and opportunity for all communities. Through its 13 bureaus, the Department works to drive U.S. economic competitiveness, strengthen domestic industry, and spur the growth of quality jobs in all communities across the country. The Department serves as the voice of business in the Federal Government, and at the same time, the Department touches and serves every American every day.