Bryce Kennedy’s Post

Wondering what a your day at the U.S. Space Nuclear Policy Summit might look like next Friday (October 4th)? Final agenda below! 👇 Or you can see it on the website: https://acsp.space/snp/ We just wanted to make it easy for you to see our awesome line-up!

To my colleagues with recruiting and hiring needs in New Mexico: Through Professional Aerospace Contractors Association of New Mexico (PACA NM), I am building a public/private coalition of aerospace government organizations and private aerospace companies who have challenges in recruiting and hiring mid-to-senior level staff. (In other words, this is not about growing a STEM pipeline which is being handled by other efforts.) I’m calling this the Technical-talent Recruiting for Aerospace Coalition, or TRAC for short. This coalition is led by PACA, and co-sponsored by the Albuquerque Regional Economic Alliance, the SpaceValley Foundation, and NewSpace Nexus. The TRAC campaign endeavors to: -Identify the full range of aerospace entities with recruiting and hiring needs in New Mexico, -Leverage substantial work already done by AREA to assist coalition members with top, pro-New Mexico recruiting materials, -Work with the SpaceValley Foundation on help with recruiting packages supported by NM hospitality and other industries in the state to attract talent for select, senior positions, -Launch a comprehensive study with the support of AREA and their existing access to national talent databases to understand demographics and labor markets as they pertain to the talent needs of the coalition, -Target the identified out-of-state talent markets with a pro-New Mexico advertising campaign, and -Culminate in a hybrid virtual and in-person hiring fair in 2025. I am working closely with the above sponsors to get a more accurate projection of what: 1. Is already paid for/done/in work 2. What we could collectively get additional state funds to pay for, and 3. What cost-sharing might be needed from coalition members. (So there are some unknowns at this time.) The QR code below will take you to a very short Google form survey. I am asking interested parties to complete the 5-question survey to indicate interest to guide my conversations with the other sponsors. More details can be found in the slides at the link in the first comment. I look forward to your feedback!