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State leaders open career opportunities for students
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Raul Guerrero, a Johnson High School senior, works afternoons at Baldor Electric in Flowery Branch as part of the Hall County Schools’ work-based learning progra - photo by NAT GURLEY
There’s a gap between the number of skilled trade professionals leaving career fields and the number of promising youth ready to take the reins. That message was brought home for Hall County school officials Wednesday, when representatives from the Governor’s Office of Workforce Development visited, promoting the Go Build Georgia program. “The governor has tasked us to focus on the skilled trade gap,” Deputy Commissioner Ben Hames said.