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Where the Jobs Are —
and How to Get Them
DELAWARE EMPLOYERS HAVE AN OPEN DOOR AND WILL GUIDE JOB APPLICANTS THROUGH IT
Jenna Grasley has been in charge of searching for “early-career, full-time hires” for JPMorgan
Chase since 2015, and, now that the economy has begun to roar back after more than a year of living under the COVID-19 pandemic slowdown, she has been busier than ever. As head
of the company’s emerging talent programs for global technology, the Wilmington-based Grasley says,
“We are always in need of software engineers, and we are committed
to reimagining how we source job candidates.” Presently, that means looking for up to 80 job candidates at Chase.
John Collins, partner at FS Vector, which advises companies in various areas of financial technology, also attests that financial technology is on a roll. “That sector is really coming into its own and rapidly growing,” he says.
BY ROGER MORRIS
The fact is, most Delaware industries are booming and looking for new
hires, whether teenagers just out of high school or people already in the workforce who want to change careers — just as thousands of workers have already done, using the pandemic slowdown to seriously contemplate how and where they want to work in the future.
“One of the major shifts over the past few years that I have witnessed is for credential-based job requirements,” says Paul T. Morris Jr., assistant vice president for workforce development and community education at Delaware Technical Community College. This trend means that having a certified set of skills often is more important to being hired than a college degree.
“The two industries where I have seen the greatest need for entry-level workers,” he continues, “are health care
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and construction — and that includes all aspects of construction. Since I oversee workforce development for the college, our programs in these areas are related to jobs such as certified nursing assistant, phlebotomist, patient care technician, laborer, heavy equipment operator and HVAC technician. The training beyond high school for these
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