The goal of the Financial Services Workforce Initiative (FSWI) is to expand and develop programs to keep talented people in financial services and the southwestern Pennsylvania region. The FSWI plans to exceed that goal through continued focus on our major initiatives, Pittsburgh Regional Internship Collaborative Enterprise (PRICE) and Customer Service Supply Chain (CSSC), as well as explore new initiatives to address the workforce needs, issues, and trends of financial services.

Through the CSSC, we plan to train, graduate, and certify 50 customer service representatives and place each graduate with a regional organization. PRICE will expand the post-secondary program to include approximately 35-50 students and 8-10 financial services organizations, potentially providing college graduates with regional employment opportunities.

The PRICE high school program impacts approximately 80 Westinghouse High School Business and Finance Academy students through the in-school component and will provide internship opportunities in 3-4 finance organizations for up to 10 of those students. And, in a new initiative, our Advisory Boards are working on a regional financial services redeployment strategy to provide networking opportunities for talented, displaced employees to find jobs within the industry and region.