Digital Marketing Workforce Attraction Campaign
The Chippewa Chamber supports businesses struggling to recruit talent with a digital marketing campaign aimed at enticing skilled workers to our area.
Retaining our Workforce
Relocation Services include customized tours, community relocation packets, correspondence, and more. Chamber staff work with members to create a tailored welcome experience for potential recruitments and new employees to the area.
Leadership Chippewa Falls
This program motivates emerging leaders and develops their potential for community leadership by acquainting them with the realities, opportunities, and challenges of Chippewa Falls. Classes run October through May, meeting on the third Thursday of each month. Classes are only half a day, beginning at 7:15 AM and ending at 12:00 PM.
Wage Survey
Western & Central Wisconsin Wage Survey - The survey is distributed in the spring and published in mid-summer. It covers employers from nine Chambers of Commerce including Chippewa Falls, Eau Claire, La Crosse, Marshfield, Menomonie, Portage County, Rice Lake, Wausau, and Wisconsin Rapids. Also involved are the local chapters of the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) in the Chippewa Valley, La Crosse, Wausau, and Winona.
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Young Professionals of the Chippewa Valley
Young Professionals of the Chippewa Valley encourages young business professionals between the ages of 21-40 to interact socially, exchange ideas, share common interests, learn more about the area, and engage in the community’s future. This program is a partnership between the Chippewa Falls and Eau Claire Chambers.
Filling the pipeline
Schools2Skills™
Creating Future Workforce
Schools2Skills™ is a program that inspires students, parents, and educators to learn more about careers available in Chippewa County including career paths, salaries, and the education required to succeed in today’s work environment. The program includes tours of manufacturing, healthcare, engineering, automotive, and construction industries.
Schools2Skills Business Partners
- AMPI
- Mid-State Truck Service, Inc.
- C & M Home Builders & Real Estate
- Dove Healthcare Wissota Health & Regional Vent Center
- Great Northern Corporation
- ITW Deltar Fasteners
- Mason Companies
- Cadrex
- Nordson EDI
- Rooney Grain
- SEH
- Spectrum Industries, Inc.
- TTM Technologies
- W.S. Darley & Company
Education Partners
- Chippewa Falls Area Unified School District
- Chippewa Valley Technical College
- McDonell Area Catholic Schools
- Stanley-Boyd School District
A Sampling of Business Responsibilities For Tours
- Present an informative and safe tour of the facility; provide safety glasses and other necessary safety equipment to all participants.
- Review products made at the facility.
- A greeting by the company CEO is highly encouraged.
- Review job categories, titles, education needed, and potential salaries of various positions at company.
- Emphasize career paths/skills needed for a successful career.
- Provide a testimonial by an employee who has graduated from a McDonell Area Catholic Schools or Chippewa Falls
- Area High School and has a successful career at the company, if possible.
- Provide a hands-on experience for one or more students during the tour, if possible.
- Provide the students with a product sample or other appropriate souvenir, if possible.
- Remember you are directing this presentation to 13 to 14-year-olds, so make it fun!
Job Shadows/Guest Speakers
The Chamber is a resource for the schools when teachers or students request a special tour, guest speaker, or a job shadow. We also have the resources to connect schools and businesses for career fairs or job fairs for graduating seniors.
Youth Apprenticeships
Youth Apprenticeship (YA) integrates school-based and work-based learning to instruct students in employability and occupational skills defined by Wisconsin industries. Local programs provide training based on statewide youth apprenticeship curriculum guidelines, endorsed by business and industry. Students are instructed by qualified teachers and skilled worksite mentors. Students are simultaneously enrolled in academic classes to meet high school graduation requirements, in a youth apprenticeship-related instruction class, and are employed by a participating employer under the supervision of a skilled mentor.
Students DO NOT have to be 18 years old to work in manufacturing. A student learner is permitted to do certain work that is otherwise prohibited if the student learner is performing service within a bona fide school-work training program.
Student Internship and Youth Apprenticeship Opportunities Board is an online resource that will connect students from dozens of school districts in our region with internships and Youth Apprenticeships.
New Employer Guide
Financial Literacy
Financial Literacy is a hands-on simulation to provide students with real-world examples of financial decision-making and how their choices will impact their successes. This program is open to all Chippewa County high schools and is used with in-class learning before the day of the simulation.
