Vegas Chamber launches new platform to assist job seekers

Southern Nevadans looking for a new job or even a career change can visit an online job portal launched Wednesday by the Vegas Chamber, one of the state’s largest business organizations.

The platform, known as Southern Nevada Workforce Solutions, offers visitors resources on job training and opportunities as well as financial aid for tuition or covering job training classes. Applicants can visit the website at https://snvwfs.vegaschamber.com/.

“The Vegas Chamber is working to set up systems so that people can get reskilled and upskilled so that they can get a better job, a more higher skilled and higher paying job, which really leads into this new portal,” said Vegas Chamber CEO Mary Beth Sewald.

The announcement was made on Facebook Live with the platform’s founding partners Vegas Chamber’s Government Affairs Committee Chairman and High Tower Las Vegas Managing Partner Hugh Anderson; National Technical Institute CFO Ryan Woodward; Workforce Connections of Southern Nevada Executive Director Jaime Cruz; and REQ Executive Vice President Justin Cohen.

Sewald told the Review-Journal workforce development is one of the chamber’s biggest priorities. She also said the chamber is currently in Washington D.C. with 180 business and community leaders to meet with Biden administration officials and lawmakers about issues impacting Southern Nevada, particularly workforce development.

Anderson said during the presentation that the team created the portal to help Southern Nevadans find career security.

“We think we got a solution for people to finally, once and for all, find career paths that are the future and not the past,” he said.

Woodward said there’s a number of resources already available to job seekers but many aren’t sure where to start, especially if they want to venture into a new career.

“Many people are out of work and realizing they had a job but they want a career,” he said. “How do they get the skills they need to get into the career they want? Where do they go to find a place to get those skills? This resource gives them the opportunity to go to one place to find a lot of those answers.”

Anderson added that it’s only in phase one with plans to update the website and add more resources for job seekers.

Contact Subrina Hudson at shudson@reviewjournal.com. Follow @SubrinaH on Twitter.