Presented by: Pamela Nabors

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Ready, Aim, Hire! A Targeted Business Service
Delivery System for North Central Connecticut
Focus on Advanced Manufacturing

• Presented by Pamela Nabors
• Director of One Stop Services
• Capital Workforce Partners

A partner in CTWorks
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Capital Workforce Partners Who We
Are

• Capital Workforce Partners
• Serves 37 communities in North Central CT
• Population Nearly 960,000 Labor Force 486,500
• Develops policy, strategic plans and program
  resources for workforce development
• Mission To maximize public and private
  resources to produce skilled workers for a
  competitive regional economy.

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Workforce Region -North Central CT
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Building an Industry/Business-Driven Workforce
Investment System

• In FY 05-06 Capital Workforce Partners (CWP)
  selected four industry growth clusters based on
  the strength of their job growth in the region
• Allied Health
• Advanced Manufacturing
• Business Finance
• Hospitality/Retail/Customer Service

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Building an Industry/Business-Driven Workforce
Investment System (continued)
To identify the sectors, Capital Workforce
Partners conducted extensive research, in
collaboration with the CT Department of Labor
(CTDOL), the CT Department of Economic and
Community Development (DECD) and the CT Business
Industry Association (CBIA). These sectors
have growth opportunities with self-sufficiency
wages for job seekers in the North Central Region
of CT. CWP also solicited the input of
businesses through targeted focus groups and
surveys.
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Building an Industry/Business-Driven Workforce
Investment System - Objectives
Allied Health - provide bridge opportunities for
low-wage working health care workers to grow in
nursing and other advanced allied health careers.
Advanced Manufacturing- promote career
opportunities and pathways within manufacturing
to in-school youth and adults who are changing
careers. Business Finance - publish career
materials, tools and resources which identify
career ladder and lattice opportunities with
Community Colleges in this industry for youth and
adult job seekers. Hospitality/Retail/Customer
Service - create a Retail/Hospitality Skills
Center to prepare workers for this industry and
develop industry-specific career lattice tools
for use in the One-Stop system.
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CT Manufacturing Job Facts

• One half of the top 100 companies headquartered
  in Connecticut are manufacturing companies
• Manufacturing jobs pay at least 20 higher than
  those in construction, service, and retail
• There are 5,600 manufacturing jobs in the state
• The industry contributes 17.6 of Connecticuts
  gross state product
• Connecticut manufacturing workers are, on
  average, 13.3 more productive than the average
  U. S. manufacturing worker.
• In 2003, average total compensation in
  manufacturing in the U.S. was nearly 63,000 per
  year vs. an average of 51,000 in the remainder
  of the economy
• Sources U. S. Department of Commerce/National
  Association
• of Manufacturers
• U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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Collaboration within Targeted Sectors Advanced
Manufacturing

• Pipeline development initiative with CTDOL,
  Hartford Job Corps Academy, CT Office of
  Workforce Competitiveness, United Way of
  Connecticut, CBIA, the CT Technical High School
  System, the Manufacturing Alliance of
  Connecticut, CT DECD, the CT Center for Advanced
  Technology, Asnuntuck and Manchester Community
  Colleges, and the Bristol and New Britain
  Chambers of Commerce
• Provided Incumbent Worker Training (IWT) grants
  for small manufacturers needing to re-tool their
  workforce and create more entry-level or cross
  training for dislocated workers
• Developing marketing strategy to attract
• dislocated workers to advanced
• manufacturing jobs

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Manufacture Your Future!

• 20 of CT Manufacturing companies expect to
  release 25 or more of their workforce within the
  next 5 years
• 31 of employers expect to raise their CT
  workforce within the next 5 years because of new
  products, sales, or expansion
• 3 jobs in highest demand Tool and Die, CNC,
  Engineers
• Companies will assist you in achieving climbing
  up the career ladder
• 71 of employers help train employees to advance
  to more seniority positions in company
• 52 of employers provide tuition reimbursement
  for job-related education
• 91 of manufacturing firms surveyed do not
  expect to eliminate any positions in the next 5
  years, the jobs are here to stay
• Source 2004 Survey of Current and Future
  Manufacturing Jobs
• in Connecticut CBIA

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How to Build an Industry/Business-Driven
Workforce Investment System (continued)

• Create materials for One-Stop customers that
  encourage them to seek jobs in the targeted
  industries such as manufacturing.
• Train One-Stop staff to become ambassadors for
  career advancement through the targeted
  industries.
• Recruit Board members from the targeted
  industries and actively solicit participation on
  industry-related committees.

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How to Build an Industry/Business-Driven
Workforce Investment System (continued)

• Assign industry-specific business representatives
  to create specific industry connections within
  manufacturing.
• Collaborate with other organizations targeting
  the same industry clusters to develop
  informational materials that can then be
  distributed through your website. (see
  www.capitalworkforce.org Adult Job Seekers)

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For more information

• Contacts
• Pamela Nabors, Director One Stop Services
• 860-522-1111, ext. 336
• pnabors_at_capitalworkforce.org
• www.capitalworkforce.org

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Questions

• How do high growth investments connect to the
  Unemployed population, incumbent, and dislocated
  workers? 
• How do they work through the one-stop to
  determine those that may be a good fit with
  businesses desiring CNC training? 
• What kind of assessment is used to determine if
  they are ready for the training and employable by
  the business? 
• For those that have completed training, how are
  they connected to the employers needing these
  skilled workers, if they are not incumbent
  workers?
• How is this training/grantee fulfilling a
  regional economic need? 
• How many businesses are there in the communities
  that require CNC operators? 
• How should the state/one-stop system link up with
  high growth investments to align their visions
  and resources?
• Where is the link between the business demand
• and those providing the labor supply?