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<\/a>Dr. Rex Gandy, APSU provost, promotes the University during the summit.<\/p><\/div>\n
\u201cHiring has become, in my opinion, a stressful task for HR managers,\u201d he said. \u201c\u2018Hire\u2019 is a four-letter word in some cases.\u201d He added later that, with so many successful companies in the area, \u201cWe\u2019re in the middle of a talent war.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got to maintain a quality place, we\u2019ve got to provide an atmosphere where folks want to live here, play here, grow here and continue to raise their families here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Eric Horton, with Workforce Essentials, offered a solution to the talent war, telling employers to \u201ctake a chance\u201d on men and women transitioning out of the military.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe No. 2 largest employer in the state of Tennessee is Fort Campbell,\u201d he said. \u201cThat is a talent pool where you have 6,000 soldiers leaving a year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Keep the conversation going<\/h3>\n
[320right]Wednesday\u2019s summit ended at 10:00am, but several individuals stayed to continue discussing how to take advantage of the region\u2019s many resources. A consensus emerged that the community needs to host more events like the Austin Peay State University summit to keep the conversation going.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re all here for the same reason, and that\u2019s that we want to provide solutions to our workforce issues that are facing our community and really position ourselves ahead of our peer communities when it comes to providing a sustainable workforce,\u201d Montgomery County Mayor Jim Durrett said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no reason why we can\u2019t do better,\u201d Clarksville Mayor Kim McMillan said. \u201cIn fact, there\u2019s every reason for us to roll up our sleeves and capitalize on the energy and expertise we have right here in our community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Austin Peay State University (APSU) Clarksville, TN – Frank Tate, executive director of the Clarksville-Montgomery County Industrial Development Board, knows how to brag. If you\u2019re going to make a bold statement, you\u2019d better be able to back it up. On Wednesday morning, during the Alignment of Community and Education Industry Summit, hosted by Austin Peay […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[22711,23,30582,11642,262,1759,825,696,1750,103,31268,150,32662,19190,21470,3684,1373,11021,693,31820,10067,6882,1758,32663,1386,19405,12686],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-6Ri","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26369,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26368\/revisions\/26369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Clarksville, TN<\/strong> – Frank Tate, executive director of the Clarksville-Montgomery County Industrial Development Board, knows how to brag. If you\u2019re going to make a bold statement, you\u2019d better be able to back it up. On Wednesday morning, during the Alignment of Community and Education Industry Summit, hosted by Austin Peay State University\u2019s College of STEM, he told a packed audience of local business, civic and educational leaders that Clarksville-Montgomery County is the best place in all of Tennessee to live, work, play and thrive. In his words, it\u2019s \u201cideal.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Austin](\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/APSU-Industry-Summit-inspires-local-leaders-to-envision-the-future-3.jpg\" "\\"Austin")
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