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New Hampshire's Workforce Resource

NH Sector Partnerships Initiative – or NH SPI – is your company’s connection to the $1 million available today to help fill workforce gaps in New Hampshire’s construction, health care, hospitality, manufacturing and technology sectors. SPI coordinates it all at no up-front cost to your company.

Connect to your industry
Find and create workers with the skills needed to meet the demands of the industry, which has grown 10% since 2013 and shows no signs of slowing down.

Construction

Create your strategy to hire or train qualified workers to fill the 3,500+ open positions in New Hampshire’s largest industry.

Health Care

Join leading hospitality and tourism industry leaders and connect to the $1 million available to fill workforce gaps.

Hospitality

Buck the trends and let SPI help you find new employees and upskill or retrain your existing manufacturing industry workforce.

Manufacturing

Get creative and meet the demand of a tech sector with 2,000 current unfilled positions in an industry expected to grow more than 10% over the next five years.

Technology

What Does SPI Do?

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“Great NH Restaurants had zero turnover in management level staff in 2017 and as a result was able to lower their front-line staff turn over by 20%. This is the Sector Partnerships Initiative in action – providing resources to businesses to upskill their employees.”


Tom Boucher
owner and CEO, Great NH Restaurants



Connect to the hospitality sector


“Through SPI, contractors and industry partners will develop real solutions to address the long-term workforce shortage here in New Hampshire.”


Joshua Reap
president and CEO, Associated Builders and Contractors of New Hampshire and Vermont



Connect to the construction sector


“Boston’s got some serious gravity. As a coder I feel that gravity, and I think about giving into it far too often. I’m looking to SPI to amp up the gravity in New Hampshire, to offset Boston’s. I’m not one to spectate, though, so I’m jumping in the fray.”


Jim Wilcox
software architect, BlueMetal Inc.



Connect to the technology sector


“The health care sector partnership brings all the pieces of the health care workforce puzzle together to customize training to really meet today’s challenges.”


Susan Huard
president, Manchester Community College



Connect to the health care sector


“C&M Machine Products supports this important program and in turn, the future of New Hampshire’s manufacturing economy.”


Dan Villemaire
president, C&M Machine Products



Connect to the manufacturing sector

Get connected.
Stay connected.

The first step in solving our state’s workforce challenge is to connect with NH SPI and others in your industry.

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NH Sector Partnerships Initiative
New Hampshire
Sector Partnerships Initiative
(603) 206-8185

The initiative is supported by NH Works, a consortium of state agencies and associations working together to leverage their staff and align their local networks to support the sector partnerships.

The NH Works system is a proud member of the American Job Center network and an equal opportunity employer / program. Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities. TDD ACCESS: RELAY NH 1-800-735-2964

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Mark Hodsdon

President | Palmer & Sicard

Mark Hodsdon has been in the construction industry for more than 30 years; starting his career as an Apprentice Carpenter and eventually becoming a Superintendent, Project Manager, Estimator, General Manager, and Vice President for a Commercial General Contracting Firm. Today he is the President and CEO of Palmer and Sicard, Inc. an employee-owned Mechanical Contracting Firm. He holds both Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Business and a Commonwealth of Massachusetts Unrestricted Construction Supervisor’s License. Mark served as a Board Member of the Associated Builders and Contractors New Hampshire/Vermont Chapter (ABC NH/VT) for eight years and as Chairman of the Board in 2016. Mark also served as a member of the National Board of Directors for the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) for three years. Mark is currently on the Advisory Committee for the Building Construction Technologies program at The Seacoast School of Technology and on the Board of Directors of Martineau Electric, Inc