Monthly news & updates May 31, 2019 | Issue 3

WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING!...

First Annual Virtual Job Fair was a SUCCESS!

Thank you to Cindy Nolan for getting this coordinated with both high schools! Thank you to all who gave us their job postings. We heard from several businesses that they successfully hired students directly from this program.

MARKETING

RESEARCH Thank you to Kati Bachmayer (City of Lakeville) and her Bethel University classmates for their amazing research and recommendations for our Marketing strategy. Click on each of the two images below to read the presentations they presented to our Marketing Committee in May. UPCOMING MARKETING The Chamber is a sponsor and will have a banner promoting Lakeville Works at the event... The Chamber is a sponsor and our parade unit will be used to promote Lakeville Works... There will be a Lakeville Works ad in the 2019-20 playbill. This is mailed to homes in Lakeville and surrounding areas later this summer... CURRENT PRINT & DIGITAL ADS Permanent button on the homepage of SunThisweek.com... Premium banner ads, SunThisweek.com... Programmatic digital ads targeting parents of ISD194 students and ISD194 students. Targets are served ads based on geography, search history and behavior... Weekly display ad in both Full and Part Time section of printed classifieds in SunThisweek.com... Full page articles, highlighting YOUR businesses,have started running in Sun Thisweek printed edition...

WELCOME ALYSSA ARNOLD! Alyssa joined the Chamber staff this month and her main priority is keeping LakevilleWorks.org job postings current. She is contacting our Chamber member businesses to update their current listings and post new ones. If you have not checked out the site lately we are just shy of 250 jobs on there! You can send your current openings directly to her at jobs@lakevillechambercvb.org .

IN THE SCHOOLS

A recap video of the SEMA grant project between QA1 and the school district.

TEACHER EXTERNSHIP AT ADVANCED WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS!!! This summer, Alesia Arlandson, a Secondary Instructional Data Support Specialist in teh district, will be doing an externship at Advanced Wireless Communications. Alesia will be using this experience to write curriculum for K-12. We are so excited to see how this pilot experience goes and hope to add more teachers, and businesses, next summer.

HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE UPDATE

Our HR Committee has started the planning process for our first Human Resources workshop, to be held in spring of 2020. The event will be held at Crystal Lake Golf Club and we will have a date to share in the near future. We are currently narrowing in on seminar topics and speaker recommendations. The next meeting is scheduled for July 11 at 3:00 at chamber office.

MARKETING COMMITTEE MEETING UDPATE

The marketing committee is excited about this video from GreatJobsmn.com. We are looking to create something similar with our video budget. More to come as we develop our final concept. The next meeting is scheduled for Monday, July 15 at 3:30 at Chamber office.

DON'T FORGET...

IMMEDIATE WORKFORCE! I have connected many of you with the team at Community Ed for various things, including potential immediate workforce candidates. Our Community Ed staff is very excited about Lakeville Works and would love to work with us more often. We continue to work on ideas for the larger group; however, in the meantime please let me know if you would like me to make the individual introduction to you as well.

NEXT INVESTOR MEETING

Watch for Calendar Invite Thursday, July 18 | 8:30 am Advanced Wireless Communications At this meeting we will be giving you a full update on everything we have going on. We will also talk about the pilot programs that we will be implementing in our schools, and where we will need the help of your talent and time to complete them!

Lakeville Area Chamber of Commerce [LakevilleWorks.org]

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