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Two years ago the state launched a search for a technolo-gy partner to modernize the program, choosing Monster Government Solutions. In addition to having 20 years’ experience in jobs matching, Monster had a valuable technology advantage: artificial intelligence and semantic technology that could help automate parts of the decision making process.

“With the Monster Government Solutions technology piece, we’ve got artificial intelligence that does the matching,” Peinecke said. “That allows our people to spend more time doing career or employer counseling and move cases forward.”

The site also prompts the state’s field of career specialists to engage directly with employers and job seekers to find where they have a match or where they might have a skills gap for which an additional credential or course work might be necessary for the candidate.

The expert panel helps round out a dynamic, “clicks and bricks” approach to meeting the state’s workforce development challenges, Peinecke said.

“It’s a game changer in the way that it affects not only the administrative piece of labor exchange but the broader piece of how we close skills gaps for employers and how we develop a talent pipeline and for growing the Washington state economy,” Peinecke said.

The state is using the jobs platform to work with the Joint Base Lewis-McChord, a joint Army and Air Force facility near Tacoma, Wash., through which some 6,000 military personnel transition every year. In doing so, the state is enrolling transitioning military personnel into the state’s job system, where it believes they will have higher placement success with employers looking for military-oriented skill sets.

The state is also enrolling community and technical college students into the system, as well as 70,000 high school seniors across the state whose skills may not have been previously tested or recorded.

Younger, millennial-generation candidates may take different paths into the system -- one reason Peinecke sees mobile technology as a key benefit of the program. Multiple surveys have found that mobile devic-es often are a millennial’s primary computing and communications platform.

“As our employers talk about skills gaps, sometimes they are legitimate gaps that we have to close through education,” Peinecke said. “Just as often, there are labor exchange gaps where the skills are not apparent -- someone posts something on a job bulletin board -- and the person with the skills doesn’t post at the same time and no match is ever consummated.”

Washington overhauls job-matching site

By Paul McCloskey Jul 27, 2016 Washington Gov. Jay Inslee wants to help spur workforce development throughout the state by rolling out a jobs-matching website that combines features of the state’s WorkSource job matching site and technology from jobs powerhouse, Monster Worldwide Inc.

The upgraded website, called WorkSourceWA.com, offers employers improved job recruitment tools, talent-management software to find candidates faster and ways to perform side-by-side compari-sons of job seeker attributes.

“This partnership will help our state reduce unemployment and grow our economy, while ensuring that Washingtonian workers and employers have opportunities to be successful and prosper,” Inslee said.

The site is powered by Monster but carries Washington State branding and data. It offers job seekers resume-builder tools so they can stand out in the candidate pool as well as skills and assessment tools to help them explore opportunities and chart progress throughout their careers. An integrated case management system also helps expert advisors in 60 statewide resource centers help residents find jobs.

In the 14 years prior to relaunching the site, the state’s employment security office hosted a mainframe-based labor exchange that was most-ly a system for organizing paperwork.

“Employers posted jobs and job seekers posted resumes, but people looked at the piles and did the actual match,” said Dale Peinecke, commis-sioner of Washington's Employment Security Department.

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To no one's surprise, Initiative 1433 has qualified for the November ballot. The measure would boost the statewide mini-mum wage from $9.47 per hour to $13.50 by 2020. In 2018, employers would also be required to pro-vide workers up to seven days of paid "sick and safe" leave. The measure would not affect cities, like Seattle, that have adopted higher municipal minimum wage ordinances. Major business organizations have warned of unintended consequences should the initiative pass, as we noted when the petitions were turned in earlier this month. As Washington voters consider the measure, efforts to boost the national minimum wage will also claim a lot of attention in this election cycle. Seattle's phased-in $15/hour wage, then, w ill doubtless be much discussed, in Washington and across the country. This week, the University of Washington research team that is studying the effects of the Seattle law released a new report. The Washington Research Council took a deeper look, summarizing the results in this post. The WRC writes, All in all, the findings of this report are fairly modest. (After all, the report only considers the increase from $9.47 to $11.) They show that there are tradeoffs involved-although wages go up for workers who keep their hours, there are disemployment effects. The Manhattan Institute has a brief analysis of the effects of minimum wage laws relevant to the current national and local discussions. The analysis echoes the commonsense observation made by the UW researchers: Seattle's strong economy may make it capable of absorbing higher wages for low-wage workers, and this capacity may not be present in other regions.

In his Manhattan Institute analysis, Oren Cass examines variations among the states and metros. He writes, A minimum set with reference to the highest-wage markets will, by definition, impose dramatic economic distortions in lower-wage markets. Within our state, we have significant disparities between high-wage and low-wage markets. Cass's conclusion bears repeating here: A minimum-wage increase is a by-product of a healthy labor market, not a catalyst for one.

*** Washington boasted the nation's best GDP growth in the first quarter of the year. The gains, as has been true for some time, are largely driven by the high-tech sector. The sector is primarily concentrated in the metropolitan Puget Sound, providing the strength noted in the UW study of the Seattle minimum wage. *** Stateline this week examined how millennial migration is transforming some Rust Belt cities into what one writer calls "brainbelts." Millennials may be bellwethers. They are moving from cities with high housing costs to cities that offer lower costs. Further, though, Stateline finds that the cities most attractive are those that have retained world-class research centers. We found the article a reminder of the resilience of local economies, and a reminder that competition never stands still. For more on these issues and others, please take a look at the latest posts listed below, including editorial opinion regarding Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn's lawsuit against local districts and efforts by the Olympia City Council to keep a municipal income tax initiative off the fall ballot. Please like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.

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We are no longer in the dark ages of Disaster Recovery. With the onset of cloud computing, DR has become more efficient and affordable than ever. Despite this fact, many business owners still cling to their medieval DR mindsets and myths that be-long in debates among king Arthur and his knights of the round table. So if you’re uncertain as to how DR has changed and are ready to step into the light of this glori-ous cloud computing age, here are some myths that will soon be part of IT folklore. Tape Backups are the best DR solution Like a car, computer or television, tape is a physical object that deteriorates over time. Don’t believe us? Go ahead and listen to your favorite cassette. One day your tape backups will become distorted and no longer work. And hopefully, that day isn’t the same one when your business suffers a disaster. However, there is a good chance all your tape backups will work. So does that mean there’s nothing to worry about? Well, consider where you store your tape backups. Are they on-site or in a location within a few miles of your office? If so, remember that if your business is hit by a natural disaster, chances are those tapes nearby will be hit as well. And if they’re damaged or become inaccessible, say goodbye to your business continuity. While tape backup is better than nothing, many of today’s DR providers will backup your data to an offsite location that is far away from the neighborhood your office is at. That way, if your business is affected by a disaster, your backup is located hundreds of miles away in a safe place that is likely untouched. It’s also worth noting that modern day DR solutions also provide another valuable commodity - time. So ask yourself, is the mindless task of backing up tapes really worth the time of your IT staff? Wouldn’t you rather have them working on more valuable tasks that require a skill? Today’s DR service providers eliminate this need, as they take care of nearly everything. You or your staff will never have to bother with The RTO you want will be too expensive Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is of primary importance to most business owners. And who can blame them. If you’re going to invest in a Disaster Recovery solution, you want to be able to rely on it to recover quickly (on a timetable that won’t damage your business). In the old days before the cloud, a quick recovery time could cost you well into six figures. Today, tools such as the cloud and virtualization have made this much more affordable, and faster than ever. Most DR providers can backup all your critical data in a matter of minutes. And if you ever need to recover it, most services can do so in hours, rather than days. That’s the power of the cloud. And when it c o m e s t o D R , i t t r u l y h a s c h a n g e d e v e r y t h i n g . Disaster Recovery is for big business, not SMBs Well, it once was. Again, the cloud has really leveled the playing field. And it is mak-ing a truly valuable service accessible to businesses of all sizes. From dental offices to small retail operations, SMBs can now easily take advantage of the best DR solutions on market, as the barriers of complexity, costs, and insufficient IT resources no longer apply. Modern IT advances and the cloud have eliminated these obstacles. We hope these three myths will help you see how Disaster Recovery is more affordable and efficient than ever. If you’d like to learn how our DR solutions can safeguard your business, send us a message. We’re happy to fill you in.

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The Earned Income Credit is rising. The maximum allowable Earned Income Credit will go up modestly in 2016. For those with three or more qualifying children, the maximum credit will rise to $6,269, up $27. Those with two children will get a maximum $5,572, which is up $24 from 2015, while one‐child families can get up to $3,373, $14 more than last year. Those without children get just a $3 bump and can claim up to $506 for 2016.

The estate tax exemp on is heading upward. The life me exemp on amount for the gi and estate tax is ed to infla on, and it is slated to rise next year as well. The exemp‐

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If you have any ques ons about how these tax changes will affect you or your business contact Jeremy Fogelquist, CPA at 253‐620‐3147.


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Boeing centennial rings out across Puget Sound and around the world Employees and leaders honor the past with a sharp focus on the future

July 19, 2016 in Our Community

The Boeing Centennial flag is raised over Seattle's iconic Space Needle at 7:15 a.m.

Pacific time by Leanne Caret, president and CEO of Boeing Defense, Space & Se-

curity, and Ray Conner, president and CEO of Commercial Airplanes.

Bob Ferguson

It was a weekend to celebrate as employees gathered to pay tribute

to Boeing’s first century, and the message from company leaders

was suitably uplifting:

By setting bold and inspiring goals for the future of aerospace inno-

vation, every Boeing employee has the potential to build on the lega-

cy of Boeing’s first century and make a lasting impact on the sec-

ond,

The weekend-long global celebration was headed up by activities in

Seattle, where Bill Boeing founded his airplane company on July 15,

1916. The festivities began with the raising of the Boeing centennial

flag atop Seattle’s iconic Space Needle at 7:15 in the morning.

In the shared celebration that followed, employees around the globe

came together to view a live webcast that reveled in the company’s

many first-century accomplishments while keeping a sharp focus on

the challenges and opportunities that the future holds.

Chief Technology Officer John Tracy traced the arc of Boeing’s

rise to aerospace leadership while Dennis Muilenburg, chairman,

president and CEO of The Boeing Company, set the course for

the century to come.

In between, the focus was on the people who make it all possible,

with speakers sharing personal stories of their Boeing roots and

experiences. Earlier in the day, Boeing employees helped launch

Founders Day festivities at the ringing of the opening bell at the

New York Stock Exchange.

Muilenburg said the company shares the same passion for the

future that defined the company’s founders.

“The innovative spirit of our founder Bill Boeing, who 100 years

ago today dedicated this company to building something better, is

alive in the generations of our people who continue to deliver

products and services that matter and positively change lives

around the world,” Muilenburg said.

“As we embark on our second century, our commitment to excel-

lence is stronger than ever, our potential for achievement is as

great as it was for our founders, and our goals must be even more

bold, visionary and inspiring,” he said.

During the Centennial weekend, the Museum of Flight, located in

south Seattle and adjacent to Boeing Field — hosted a lineup of

all 7-series commercial airplanes as well as military, space and

historical aircraft.

Some of Boeing’s Washington sports partners also jumped in on

the celebration action! At the Mariners game on July 15 - the date

of Boeing’s actual Centennial – Mariners players including Robin-

son Cano and Kyle Seager wished Boeing birthday in a game-

day video. Also, retired Boeing employee Bill Bruns threw out the

ceremonial first pitch at the Boeing centennial-themed Seattle

Mariners baseball game. Five generations of the Bruns family

have worked at Boeing, including his son, daughter-in-law and

grandson, among others, all of whom are all current employees

and joined him on the mound.


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