Building the Workforce for the Future

Rick Outzen: (we don’t) color on the dog · Sep 10, 2026 · 8m · transcript

Rick sits down with Jim Howe, Landrum's VP of Workforce Solutions, to talk about the region's skilled-labor crunch — why the pipeline has to start in middle school, how UWF's Catalyst Program is putting 20+ local companies in front of students, and how COVID flipped the labor market from employer-driven to employee-driven.