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Watch how GE employees in Schenectady help power cities, schools, businesses…and even beer.

GE employees in Louisville’s Appliance Park show us how they’re changing the way appliances are manufactured in the U.S., and how it’s helping to create jobs.

On today’s podcast JobsinPods speaks with Nick Garbis, strategic workforce planning leader with GE Energy. Nick has a Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science from the University of Illinois and experience in workforce analytics and workforce planning. He joined GE in the Fall of 2010 in the newly created role focused on the development of strategic workforce planning center of excellence.

At first blush, Comstock doesn’t have an eclectic career path–she’s spent more than two decades within GE’s various divisions. But that hasn’t limited her embrace of flux. While she can dress and act the part of a quintessential corporate soldier, she’s also got a sweet spot for creative types who can bring her fresh thinking–and can spur GE forward. She’s brought in folks like Benjamin Palmer, the groovy CEO of edgy ad firm Barbarian Group, to help inject new ideas and processes into GE’s marketing apparatus. “We’re creating digital challenge teams,” she explains. She’s also trolling among cleantech and health startups, pointing to Luke Fishback at home-energy service PlotWatt as an example. “We’re doing a lot more work with entrepreneurs,” Comstock says. “It’s part of our internal growth strategy. It creates tension. It makes people’s jobs frustrating. But it’s also energizing.”

Louis Nerone spent quarter of a century at GE’s historic NELA Park quietly inventing better light bulbs. Last month, Nerone, who is a principal engineer at GE Lighting Solutions, was awarded his 106th patent. All but five of those have been assigned to GE, which adds up to about four patents per year. Last year he received eight, though. “It comes in spurts,” he shrugs.