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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.

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It's time now for our community connection
right here on K one, the

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one you trust and portray ray all. We've had him on hold forever.

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How you doing there, You haven't
fun today yet? Yes, no worry.

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Thanks for having hey. It's always
great to have you in here.

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He's from the Oklahoma Employment Securities Commission
and lots going on, of course in

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the workforce and also going on what
I call day to day living. Parts

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of our state have been affected by
some pretty bad storms, and especially Bartlesfield

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Barnstall area here locally, but just
all over the state. Things have kind

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of been doing it like they do
in the springtime of Oklahoma. Things get

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interrupted. What are we doing as
far as some of the services offered during

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this period of time here while we're
trying to get things cleaned up and cleared

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away. Yeah, yeah, good
question. So the Employment Security Commission administers

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employment and reemployment services across the state. That's most of what we do.

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We have a veteran services and we
also have some work that we do directly

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with employers of the state. Typically, when storms go through areas and disrupt

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businesses, it's either going to impact
employers or the staff of those employers or

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both. And so if someone has
to shut down temporarily or you know they've

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got their buildings hit and they've got
a close fully, sometimes people are laid

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off. We encourage people to go
through the normal unemployment process and where they

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do not qualify for unemployment, there
is sometimes opportunities for disaster unemployment assistance which

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they can go through the process with
our staff to get if they do not

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meet qualifications for unemployment. So it's
just emergency things that get sit up when

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storms, when storms ravage areas.
So we're working on getting that stood up

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hopefully have it ready for probably by
next week for people. But we just

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encourage people to go through the normal
employment process that they've been impacted by storms,

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and then we'll kind of husher them
through that if if they need to

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be going through something else understood.
So make it real simple, folks,

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just like you would for normal unemployment. And once again they'll take your information

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once you have that information, trying
to find what help they can for you.

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And yes, sir, they can. They can call theyn go on

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mine, they can go to any
of our American job centers. We have

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a we have an office there in
Bartlesville, and so they can go in

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there. Uh and anyone should be
able to help them, whether their employers

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or their employees. Now I understand
these these centers are very handy if folks

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there are very very calm collect it
because not all of us folks who are

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in the workforce are computers savvy.
So they thank you by the hand of

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calm you down, and they'll take
you through the process. They've been to

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it a million times and they can't
understand where you are. They're going to

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meet you where you are, so
sure, Yeah, I appreciate you saying

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that. They The people that work
in our offices are are they're gods hands.

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They're taking care of people. They
get up every day they go to

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work, you know, solely to
serve people, serve others. So they're

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doing hiring fairs, they're helping people
pres you know, resumes, they're doing

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mock interviews, they're connecting people and
sourcing you know, these candidates to these

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jobs. If they're working with the
employers, they're looking for specific people.

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We have employers and employees under case
management, so we usually can connect them

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and we don't do everything for workforce. We have a lot of partners,

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and so sometimes you know, we're
doing a warmhand off and connecting people to

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one of our partners, if it's
the Department of Rehabilitation Services or the Career

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Tech center across the center in that
in that part of the state, or

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across the state if they're going somewhere
else. So, yeah, any kind

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of training or employment need. Usually
though if we don't have the right answer,

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we at least know it or know
who will. This is really cool

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now. I was aware of the
mock interview thing, but the resume and

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trying to put that together that you
know, if you're a young person just

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getting into the workforce and I'm talking
to the recent high school grads who are

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not going to go off to a
trade school or to college, this is

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a great place to make an appointment
and kind of go through these steps,

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you know. And also, yea's
been a while since you had a job

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change, and you know a lot
of it has changed. You might want

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to do this too. Sure,
Yeah, you know, people, it's

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very rare that someone decides what they
want to be and then they just go

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be that and there's never any disruption
or change. You know, usually someone

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has an idea of what they want
to do and they'll do it, and

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they may change their mind, or
they'll go to school and get a degree,

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or go to a career tech and
get a certification and at some point

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maybe want to change jobs. So
whatever situation someone finds themselves in, whether

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they're young or you know, they've
been in the workforce for a while.

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The people at our offices and our
partners too, they work with employers and

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employees in every industry across the state, so usually they're going to be pretty

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well versed in saying, if this
is what you want to do, these

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are the types of things that would
probably help you on your resume or in

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an interview setting. So it's because
we work so closely with employers that we

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can give people good guidance. You
know, we have to understand what employers

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need so that way we can help
to kind of facilitate that. So certainly

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kind of a connector matchmaker role,
and that's what I think the people are

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most passionate about is just seeing people, you know, get on their feet

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and not need help. And they
like to be the they want to be

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the last help someone need. Well, that's really pretty cool. I like

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that. I really like that a
lot. And this is a this is

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going to make your life a little
easier here, folks. Yeah, I'll

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want your goal to take the village. Sometimes. I know we're doing the

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best we can to take care of
people, and we've always got things to

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learn. We can always do a
better job of working with employers. We

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can all. You know, there's
there's tons of things that we can keep

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moving forward on. But we're learning
as much as we can and we're trying

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to immediately put it into help for
somebody. Well, Trey, I got

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to tell you, the work environment
changes so rapidly. Whatever was in vogue

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about a year ago might have a
st change or a drastic change. And

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I really had so off to you
folks to keep up with the with the

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times, as they say, because
there's one thing for certain in the world,

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and that is changed. Yes,
sir, you got it. Now.

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Your website is pretty easy to access
and very easy to navigate. Can

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you tell people where to go on
the website? Yeah, So I'll talk

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about two websites. We have our
oe SC website o s C dot God.

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That website is where you'd find things
specific to our agency. So employers

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looking for how to navigate, you
know, resources that will help them navigate

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their employer tax SOUDA, the state
unemployment tax wanting information on that what what

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impacts their tax rates, how to
respond to claims if someone has filed a

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claim against their business for individuals,
you know, it could be claimants that

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have applied for assistance, it could
be someone who's looking for a job it

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doesn't have an active claim. Those
people are able to find resources on there

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about being connected with employers and what
types of services they can get in our

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in our offices, we have a
lot of programming in CET our agency around

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veteran services, and so we have
we employee vets across the state and their

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sole purpose is to get out there
and help disable disabled vets and help bets

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that are not disabled just find their
way through through the workforce system. You

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know, there are some organizations that
are really really military and veteran friendly,

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and so sometimes gus don't know that, and they may not know what industries

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their skill sets when they were in
the service will transfer to and make them

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successful at And I feel like we
do that a lot, not just in

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the veteran space, but a lot
of the resources people find the website or

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the information they get from staff is
about, hey, did you know because

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you're good at this, you would
also be probably really good at this.

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And it's kind of helping people understand
where there are opportunities because those things aren't

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always common knowledge. So the website
ours is osc dot gov, but the

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website that holds more of our partnership
potential is Oklahoma dot gov slash workforce,

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and that is where we're actually we
just launched that website. We're still developing

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it and so we're still putting more
functionality and there. We're going to upload

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a map soon that someone can can
see on that homepage. They could click

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on what county they're in, and
it'll be able to take them to a

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different page that tells them all of
the workforce related services and entities available to

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them. So what hot jobs list
kind of things that the employers in their

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area really need to be hiring for, what career techs or community colleges or

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higher ed institutions of any kind,
what's nearby? Where can I get training?

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What what jobs exist? Are there
workforce boards in that area? Resources

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that can help connect me, whether
it's resumes or interviews or whatever. So

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a lot of things you know that
someone can kind of self select or self

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navigate, and if they ever do
that question, they just go to one

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of these American job centers. The
Oklahoma works is what's on signs and they're

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all of the state and that's where
they can go. And if it's not

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an OEESD thing, they be easily
connected with one of the other partners.

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But is an OSC thing, that's
where we sit. So people can go

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online. They can call one of
those websites if anyone ever asked questions or

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like you mentioned the computer literacy piece
someone. You know, a lot of

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these towns they don't have internet providers
that are stable in their areas. True

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people made me get on the computer. Sometimes they go into the offices.

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We've got computer lab setups in each
office and staff will kind of walk them

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through the processes. So, yeah, we try to be in this workforce

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space, you know, connectors and
whatever someone might come to need, whether

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it's you know, with us or
partners. But but yeah, they can

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kind of come to us anyway.
But those are the two websites that is

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really cool. You know, Unemployment
for some folks is so very foreign.

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There are people who've never been unemployed
in their life, and there are folks

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who have been unemployed when they at
least expected it simply because maybe they're jop

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moved or something like that, or
something in the market shift, and this

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is a whole new world for them. And I just this really makes it

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easy for those who are trying to
go through this period of adjustment to get

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reoriented and to kind of take the
kind of take all the anxiety away.

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I really like that, yes,
sir, Yeah, And you know,

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things happen. Life happens, like
you're saying, businesses, whether it's storms

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or something else, they can get
disrupted and it's completely out of their control.

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Sure, sometimes it's just a matter
of the unemployment rates really low,

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and that means people looking for jobs
have a lot of options, and so

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it's hard to find staff sometimes when
the unemployment rates low because they have multiple,

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you know, alternatives to the job
that you may be offering them.

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And so you've got to be competitive, and you've got to think about all

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the things people want, flexibility in
their work and all of these things.

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So I think, as we you
know, if we're trying to make the

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biggest impact we can on businesses.
We are best off drawing more people into

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the labor force. You know,
people that are you know, retired,

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but maybe would go back to work
and kind of sitting around and maybe entertaining

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the idea of going back to work. If people are in limbo, I

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don't know if I want to go
to school, I don't know if I

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want to go get a certification.
They're just kind of taking a job and

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making decisions for a while. You
know, those people anyone kind of that

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isn't in the workforce. If we
can get them engaged in the workforce,

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then the unemployment rate being low isn't
such a challenge for businesses because there's other

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people drawn in and training and putting
in these positions. So it's great to

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have low unemployment, but does put
that kind of strain on and that makes

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it harder on people and on businesses. So we're trying to do whatever we

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can to make sure that the state's
economy is strong, that businesses can grow

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and that they can have the staff
that they need. And a lot of

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times that's connecting people to businesses that
we work with. A lot of times

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it's educating people on Did you you
know again that that transferable skill set.

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Did you know because you're good at
this, that you could also stuff like

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this, So yeah, kind of
whatever people come to need, we're usually

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in there with them trying to figure
it out. And yeah, we hope

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that that alleviates stress and get them
back to work fast. No one wants

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to be on unemployment, and we
don't want people on unemployment, so we'd

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like to be cycling back in the
workforce and something that's good for them and

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good for the business as fast as
possible. Trey, thank you very much

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for being here with us today.
Really appreciate great information to pass along in

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a very timely manner. I really
appreciate the time you spent with us here

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and thank her. I'm happy to
do it anytime. And I love Bartlesville.

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I'm actually I've come there quite a
bit to either visit our office or

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see friends. And I'll be up
there in your town next month for the

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fill Blast Golf tournament. There you
go, there you go. We'll look

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for you then, all right,