Oklahomas Advantage

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Oklahomas Advantage

• The beginning of a new century

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The Good News

• As of October 2006, our unemployment rate was a
  very low 3.8 and has remained below the national
  average for 96 consecutive months.
• Employers are expanding and locating in Oklahoma.
  During the past year, weve seen a net increase
  of 20,000 jobs in the state. Even as some large
  plants have closed, the growth in operations by
  other employers has more than offset that loss.
• The new jobs are increasingly diverse and many
  are in knowledge economy occupations higher
  skill jobs that are part of our future.

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The Oklahoma Challenge

• A shortage of workers and a shortage of skills
• Too few workers
• Outdated job skills, or
• No marketable job skills

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Worker and Skill Shortage Issues

• Baby Boomers will be retiring at an increasingly
  rapid pace for the next 15 years
• Oklahoma is expected to grow 154,000 new jobs by
  2,014
• The job growth rate is 50 larger than the
  populations growth rate
• The working populations will have to rise from
  70 in 2005 to 91 in 2030 to meet the demand
• Skills Gaps Mismatch of skills and jobs

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Worker Participation Rate
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• Economic Development cannot happen without A
  skilled workforce- A Talent Development Strategy
  

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Difficulty of finding applicants who meet the
educational requirements of the position
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Difficulty of finding employees with basic skills
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Difficulty of finding employees with soft skills

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Business actions taken with hiring difficulty
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• Science and engineering occupations will increase
  at three times the rate of all occupations
• Bureau of Labor Statistics

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70 of todays manufactured goods will be
obsoletein 6 years
Industry Week, Teresko, 5/1/05
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• 80 of the jobs todays
• kindergarteners will occupy
• sometime in the future,
• dont yet exist
• Ed Barlow, Creating the Future

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• Nearly 50 of US patents are invented by foreign
  owned companies or foreign-born individuals
• Council on Competitiveness, 12/04

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Implications

• Innovation, problem solving, critical thinking
  are key components of a 21st century curriculum
• Education, economic development and employment
  are interdependent
• Increasing the skill level of all Oklahomans is
  an economic development necessity

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Our Future, If We Do Nothing will mean

• Fewer Oklahomans with the skills to fill our
  industry needs
• Fewer companies that can expand in Oklahoma
• Fewer companies that choose to locate in
  Oklahoma
• Stunted economic growth that inhibits our
  citizens from gaining wealth and acquiring the
  assets needed to function in a volatile labor
  market
• A state at a competitive disadvantage against
  other states and nations that have transformed
  themselves into agile communities, ready to adapt
  to ongoing change.

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Worker and Skill Shortages is An Economic
Development Issue

• THE ANSWER IS NOT SIMPLE NOR IS THERE
• A SINGLE MAGIC BULLET.
• No single entity or program owns or can solve
  the problem. It will require high level
  collaboration between us all and must be done for
  Oklahoma to be competitive.

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A Unified Strategic Vision

• Workforce development aligned with economic
  development
• Working together we can create Oklahomas
  advantage

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Governors Council

• Builds on existing foundation
• Governors commitment to a stronger strategic
  plan driven by private sector
• Private sector and public sector leaders
• Aggressive, forward-thinking plan
• Unprecedented emphasis on collaboration

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Governors CouncilStrategic Plan

• Vision
• Oklahoma has a competitive advantage through
  integrated workforce and economic development
  objectives
• Mission
• Oklahoma advances a demand-driven workforce and
  economic development system
• Result
• Oklahoma achieves wealth-creation for businesses
  and individuals, and enhances quality of life in
  communities throughout the state.

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Demand-Driven Strategies

• Look to the Future
• Identify high-growth, high-demand jobs in
  economically critical industriesthose with
• new jobs
• significant impact on the states economy
• impact growth in other industries
• being transformed by technology and innovation
• new and expected to grow
• Conduct ongoing analysis

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An Ongoing Process

• The Council plan is not an end-all solution
• Planning continues, implementation is just
  beginning
• Collaboration and participation is vital to
  success

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Collaborative Goals include

• Create a paradigm shift among Oklahomans toward
  valuing lifelong learning
• Ensure Oklahoma employers have a skilled
  workforce
• Create demand-driven service delivery models
  bridging employment, education and economic
  development
• Develop career pathways within industry sectors
  and strategies for comprehensive career
  exploration and guidance

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Core Principles That Guide the Strategy

• Focusing on key industries
• Meeting the needs of key industries, whether
  statewide or within a region
• Everyone needs to grow
• Our strategies will focus on ensuring that all
  Oklahomans are part of our states future
  success
• Removing barriers
• Enable workers who want to take advantage of
  continuous learning to do so
• Being accountable for results
• Cannot be mere rhetoric. We will develop
  metrics for our progress and use them to drive
  our actions.
• State agencies will align
• Knock down silos and work toward a common goal
• Growth will occur within regions
• Our actions need to encourage and support
  development of agile and appropriate regional
  partnerships and solutions

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Goals and Strategies for Success

• Develop career pathways and career
  exploration strategies that help all Oklahomans
  navigate the complex and changing employment
  market.
• Understanding where good jobs are in the economy,
  and what skills, knowledge and experience are
  needed to obtain them.
• Obtaining the learning and credentialing needed
  to advance in those pathways at all stages of
  life is crucial to success.

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• Implementing the Career Readiness Certificate
• Developing and implementing Oklahomas Career
  Management System
• Creating pathways for existing workers,
  transitioning workers, traditional emerging
  workers, and alternative emerging workers
• Creating industry skill alliances made up of
  regional groups of employers from within a key
  industry who work in partnership with educators,
  workforce and economic development professionals

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• Desired State Plentiful, skilled productive
  workforce

Manufacturing Health Care Aerospace
Career Pathways Strategy to enter and then to
advance
Career Pathways Strategy to enter and then to
advance
Career Pathways Strategy to enter and then to
advance
Special Populations Working Poor, Re-entry,
Middle School students, Parents, Minority groups,
High School students and Graduates, College
students and Graduates, Tech School students and
Graduates, Community College students and
Graduates, Underemployed, Unemployed, Persons
with Disabilities, Drop Outs, etc.
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The Career Readiness System

• Critical Parts of the System
• Assessment
• Job profiling
• Targeted Instruction
• Credential (Career Ready Certificate)

OCRC is a foundational element to document basic
skills in math, reading and locating
information. The WorkKeys system can do much
more!
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Industry Skills Certification

• Measures certifies existing skill levels
• Identifies employees for targeted training
• Consistent common communication tool
• Portable multi-state
• A solution to business needs Demand-driven

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Certificate Levels
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Oklahomas Career Readiness Wallet Size Credential

• Name of person and date the assessments were
  completed
• Lists the levels achieved in the three core
  areas
• Signed by the Governor and Secretary of Commerce
• Unique certificate number that can be verified
  at the Department of Commerce by the employer
• Gives web site addresses for more information

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Sample test question

• Level 5 Applied Mathematics
• Quik Call charges 18 per minute for
  long-distance calls. Econo Phone totals your
  phone usage each month and rounds the number of
  minutes up to the nearest 15 minutes. It then
  charges 7.90 per hour of phone usage, dividing
  this charge into 15-minute segments if you used
  less than a full hour. If your office makes 5
  hours 3 minutes worth of calls this month using
  the company with the lower price, how much will
  these calls cost?
• 39.50
• 41.48
• 41.87
• 54.00
• 54.54

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Comparison of ACT college preparedness and
WorkKeys

• Levels of readiness in reading and mathematics
  required for entry into college and workforce
  training are comparable
• First large-scale empirical study to address
  college and workforce training readiness
• Analyzes WorkKeys and ACT data

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Comparability between WorkKeys Job Profile level
5 and ACT college Readiness Benchmarks in Reading
and Math

• WorkKeys Test Level Act Range
• Reading for Info 5 18-23
  (21)
• Applied Math 5 18-21
  (22)

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GrowOklahoma.com Features

• Integration of career exploration components
• Career planning templates for secondary students
• Integrated with post secondary training
  information
• Financial aid information, forms and applications
• Integration of ACT WorkKeys assessments and the
  Career Readiness Certificates (CRCs)
• Control center functions for counselors,
  employers, agencies and schools
• Integrated career assessments and interest
  inventories
• Integrated links to other state job and labor
  market information

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• Build a culture in Oklahoma that values
  lifelong learning and skill development.
• Place learning at the center of Oklahomas
  paradigm about success
• That will require sustained work over several
  years on the part of leaders across Oklahoma, and
  the engagement of our families and employers in
  turning this into a core value.

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• Creating a leadership team for this campaign
  whose members include diverse leaders
• Creating and executing a communications campaign,
  designed to engage all Oklahomans
• Framing the case for lifelong learning
  persuasively, demonstrating the return on
  investments of money and time in learning to
  employers, individuals, and families.

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Strategies for Building a Workforce
Insure that Oklahomans interested in a specific
career connect learning and earning and are aware
of all career options within that field
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Insure that Oklahomans are aware of the high
expectations demanded in the field
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Assure quality career awareness, exploration and
guidance for all Oklahomans
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• Create coordinated, responsive and proactive
  service delivery models to meet the needs of
  individuals and employers.
• We must ensure that the array of public services
  delivered to individuals and employers is
  organized in a way that will align with our
  vision of Oklahoma as a state that embraces
  continuous learning. That will require
  rethinking of how services will be delivered.

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• Developing Oklahoma Advantage Centers
• a key strategy to this end will be the
  development of regional hubs for bringing
  together economic development, education and
  workforce information and service delivery into a
  user friendly, coherent system for employers and
  job seekers operating from an industry sector
  focus.

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• Ensure Oklahoma employers have access to a
  skilled workforce and that Oklahomans have the
  education and training to succeed.
• Employers will locate and grow their businesses
  in Oklahoma in major part because they are
  confident they will be able to access a skilled
  and adaptive workforce.
• And workers will choose to stay in Oklahoma and
  to locate in Oklahoma if they believe they can
  obtain good jobs that provide them with
  opportunities.

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• Using national measures to track Oklahomas
  movement up the ladder of relative educational
  and skills attainment among states
• Creating incentives for educational institutions
  to create needed capacity to develop critical
  skills
• Reducing or eliminating brain drain
• Creating a marketing and incentive plan to
  attract skilled workers to Oklahoma. This would
  include keeping Oklahomans in the state as well
  as bringing them back home
• Certifying Work Ready Communities - by using
  credible metrics, communities can validate their
  workforce and demonstrate they have a qualified
  pool of jobseekers that are work ready through
  the creation of Oklahomas Certified Work Ready
  Community status.

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This is an incredible moment in time for Oklahoma

• We enjoy
• A booming economy,
• Unprecedented alignment among leaders from
  business, education, government, and communities
  about the urgency to Grow Oklahoma
• Strong leadership from Governor Henry and the
  Legislature for this agenda, and
• A coalition that is prepared to undertake a
  multi-year effort to catalyze the transformations
  we must achieve, led by the Governors Council
  for Workforce and Economic Development.

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Implementation Involves Everyone

• Governors agenda
• Grass-roots campaign
• Support and participation from organizations and
  individuals across the state is critical to
  success
• Think differently and be open to new ideas and
  processes
• Collaboration and participation is vital to
  success

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What Can You Do?

• Communicate collaborate
• Awareness of issues-communications
• Participate in intra agency partnerships
• Instill lifelong learning
• Involvement with Career Readiness System
• Involvement with Local Workforce Boards
• Partnerships
• Collaborations
• Business Connections- Demand Driven
• Raise personal skill levels

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We Cant Do This Alone
Educational Institutions (Middle Schools, High
Schools, Technology Centers, Colleges)
Business and Industries
Workforce Boards, Local Agencies, Community
Leaders
Partnerships
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• As we enter our second century of statehood, the
  test will be whether we rise to the moment and
  plunge into turning our state into a global
  winner based on skills and learning.
• The Governors Council for Workforce and Economic
  Development invites you to join the coalition
  committed to meeting this incredible, once in a
  generation opportunity.
• Happy Birthday, Oklahoma!