The news was good in 2013 when Site Selection Magazine named Georgia the nation’s #1 State for Business, citing multiple factors for the rating, including Quick Start, Georgia's primary discretionary incentive for job creation and retention.
Quick Start is the #1 workforce development program in the nation, providing customized training free-of-charge to qualified new, expanding and existing businesses.
Since its inception in 1967, Quick Start has trained more than 1,132,720 Georgians through 6,650 projects.
In 2014, the tradition of excellence continued:
A powerful local partner.
The news gets even better for industry relocating or expanding in Cook County, as Quick Start’s local training partner is the Cook County Workforce Development Center, one of four campuses of Wiregrass Georgia Technical College. A powerfully innovative and experienced industrial resource, Wiregrass Georgia means ground-level assurance of quality and strategic insight into your operational needs.
Customization and convenience.
The Wiregrass Economic Development Department is ready deliver world-class, customized workforce training—whatever training your workforce needs, wherever and however the training needs to be delivered, from hands-on skills assessment and training on the plant floor to training in Wiregrass’ state-of-the-art laboratory facilities to online courses or series of courses.
The go-to team with greater depth.
While Wiregrass’ Center for Manufacturing Excellence offers extensive training in Advanced Automotive, Mechanical, Health and Safety and Leadership Development, Quick Start’s experience extends even deeper and broader, from Advanced Manufacturing to Biotech/Healthcare, from Automotive to Agriculture/Food Processing, from Warehousing/Distribution to Service. Together, Quick Start and Wiregrass are the go-to team for twenty-first century manufacturing across multiple sectors.
A ready-to-work labor force.
As a Georgia Work-Ready Community with the region’s top school system turning out the graduates with verifiable career-ready skills, Cook County green-lights productivity from your first hire. And with an available force of over 115,000 in a 30-mile radius, we’ve got strength to spare. So why wait? Cook County is ready today.
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