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Your Workforce in the Gateway Region
Home to several high schools, community colleges, and a university, the Gateway Region has a perfect part-time and full-time workforce for your company’s needs: 55,000 potential employees between the ages of 15 and 25, including thousands of full-time college students that return to the region’s localities every summer, looking for work.
The tens of thousands of active military personnel moving into the Tri-Cities (Petersburg, Hopewell, and Colonial Heights) area will bring another special element to the workforce in the form of the thousands of spouses and children that will join them in their new homes. Of course, these family members will look nearby for ways to supplement their families’ incomes, providing your company with another local and well-educated hiring option.
As Virginia becomes one of the most popular retirement destinations in the United States, another valuable section of the retail workforce is beginning to emerge. Seniors and other retirees have begun working in retail as a means to add to their fixed incomes or retirement savings, and the Gateway Region has another 38,000 of those potential workers over 60 to help companies like yours round out your staffs.