Career & Workforce Development

Customized Training Services

Needs Analysis

Personnel from the Career & Workforce Development are available to assist you in developing your training project. During these meetings, needs analysis discussions and employee background evaluations can be conducted at no charge. We will help you refine your training needs and will offer suggestions on selecting training sessions to meet your goals.

Development of Programs

Many organizations invest heavily in their present and future workforce on a long term basis. Career & Workforce Development (CWD) assists businesses in creating programs that help solve the problem of disappearing skills that are needed to be competitive. CWD creates complete programs to address such issues as succession planning and lack of strong work ethic in various types of businesses, such as healthcare, manufacturing, banking, and non–profit organizations.

Customization of Courses

In today’s culture, businesses are searching for ways to address specific skill gaps with their training delivery. Through the needs analysis and the customer approach, the CWD staff provides customized training to solve problems and address issues. We tailor to your needs to build a course curriculum that ensures the training can be applied to the workplace immediately.

Certificate Programs

Where training is concerned, many businesses in today’s competitive environment focus on specialized knowledge and information. The Career & Workforce Development creates certificate programs with defined outcomes that align with the skills needed in various jobs.

The center has created leadership certificate programs as well as administrative assistant and office assistant programs. With the full credibility of WKU, this credential is a valuable motivation for the employee and a tool that businesses can use for career planning. CWD can create a certificate program customized to meet the needs of your organization.