Strategies to reduce the brain drain...

Monday, February 03, 2003

By all accounts, Howard County, Maryland is not small. It has a population of 250,000. At the smae time, it faces a problem that most small counties confront: stemming the brain drain.

The Chamber of Commerce, working with the schools, has launched a new strategy to reduce the brain drain. The approach could teach EDPros in smaller counties how to keep their "best and brightest".

The initiative combines classroom instruction in business with one-on-one contacts with area businesses. Students vie for summer internships.

The students visit three local businesses -- one a month -- and spend two hours with an executive touring the company's facilities and learning about the types of management jobs available. Business leaders give students a sense of the education path required for those jobs and what a person might expect coming from college, and how a person might work his or her way through the ranks of the company.

This approach can work anywhere, and EDPros can use it to address continuing concerns about a brain drain. Read more. Learn more from the Howard County Chamber.

posted by Ed Morrison |

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