Florida - Education, Business, and More! Florida Is Where Its At!

Florida - Education, Business, and More! Florida Is Where Its At! This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Enterprise Florida for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. Florida Where it’s at! Florida The Sunshine State is home to more beaches and coastline than any other continental state.   Most people think of Florida as a vacation spot; really it should be spotlighted for innovation and forward thinking.   Florida businesses have invested a lot of time and effort to create partnerships to build a thriving manufacturing hub. Florida Business In recent years, Florida has staged a tech takeover.   The state is home to more than 30,200 tech companies with nearly 312,000 employees!   Florida identified a need for a high-tech workforce, and filled that need with their pipeline of universities.    Florida Talent?   Yea, they have that.   They have created partnerships between universities and in-state businesses allowing graduates to obtain careers right out of college.   Some of these partnerships include GE Wind Energy in Pensacola and UWF College of Engineering; SAFT in Jacksonville and UNF College of Engineering.   These talent pipelines allow Florida’s tech workforce to remain one of the strongest in the country.   As a result, unemployment rates in Florida are 3.6%, compared to the national average of 4.1% as of October 2017. Florida Innovation Florida is home to many high tech industries, as it should be.   I mean, hello Kennedy Space Center! Florida is home to companies such as Blue Origin (want to experience space travel, you should really check them out!), EA Tiburon video game development (seriously who wouldn’t want to get paid to design and play video games), and BRIDG Manufacturing innovation (want to help build a better, more connected world? Yeah they do that!).   The tech industry spans the range, and any business looking for a thriving business climate with high tech employees who embrace new levels of technology would be remiss to not consider Florida.