After over a year of work, the New York State Cannabis Workforce Initiative has launched a jobs board to help employers in the state's legal weed industry staff up and assist job-seekers.
CWI launched the beta version of its jobs board, CannaJobsLink, in mid-July, and will be optimizing it over the next few months, said David Serrano, CWI's project manager. But CannaJobsLink is already operational, and is garnering excitement among marijuana industry employers, he said. "We're 10 for 10 – every employer that we've shown the system to has signed up to our programming," Serrano said. "It's really great to see that there are jobs available in the market, and employers are coming in very excited to hire a workforce."
CWI is a state-funded collaborative effort of the nonprofit Workforce Development Institute and Cornell University's School of Industrial & Labor Relations. The organization has trained hundreds of people on the basics of the cannabis industry since 2022, including through its traveling two-day Seed-to-Success Statewide Live Workshop.
CWI's job board aggregates cannabis industry job postings in New York State from sites like KayaPush, Indeed and others, Serrano said. Right now there are about 80 postings on the site, and Serrano expects there will be between 300 and 400 active job postings at any given time when the CannaJobsLink site is fully launched.
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