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Title: Building A Skilled Workforce


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Building A Skilled Workforce
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Pennsylvanias Workforce Development System
22 Workforce Investment Boards 69
Pennsylvania PA CareerLinks 72 Industry
Partnerships
3
Advancing Innovation Through
Collaborations
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PA Sector Initiative
  • Building the case
  • Two years of meetings and retreats
  • Legislative Briefings
  • Using Workforce Information - CWIA
  • Money as incentive
  • Discretionary funds
  • Job Ready PA

5
Four Critical Strategies
  • Strengthen current industries
  • Increase opportunities for residents
  • Prepare youth for future careers
  • Implement accountability standards

6
High Priority Occupations
  • Goal Effectively target education and training
    dollars to best sustain Pennsylvanias economy.
  • What they are Job categories that are in demand
    by employers, require advanced skills and provide
    family-sustaining wages.
  • Whos Impacted All recipients of public
    workforce investment dollars.

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Pennsylvanias Targeted Industry Clusters
  • Advanced Materials Diversified Manufacturing
  • Chemicals, Rubber Plastics
  • Electronics
  • Metals Metal Fabrication
  • Printing
  • Vehicle Vehicle Equipment
  • Agriculture Food Production
  • Food Processing
  • Building Construction
  • Business Financial Services
  • Education
  • Information Communication Services
  • Life Sciences
  • Bio-Medical
  • Health Care
  • Logistics Transportation
  • Lumber, Wood Paper
  • Energy

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What are Industry Partnerships?
  • Organize clusters of businesses that share
    similar workforce challenges, markets and
    suppliers
  • Industry-led process is a key factor
  • Create economies of scale for job training and
    education
  • Identify key occupations
  • Promote innovation
  • Working together, business can identify worker
    skill gaps, address training needs and develop
    regional strategies to build stronger economies

9
Guidelines as Incentives
  • Competitive process
  • LWIBs first priority
  • Encourage other intermediaries
  • Recommended partners
  • Career Tech Schools
  • Educational institutions
  • Associations
  • Unions

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Goals of IPs
  • Multiple employer involvement
  • Governance structure
  • Industry and labor driven
  • Regional economic and workforce challenges
  • Identify industry needs
  • Matching partnership funds
  • Not Required, but encouraged

11
Incumbent Worker Training
  • Trained over 75,000 existing or new hire
    employees
  • Work directly with groups of employers in
    targeted industries (about 6,300)
  • Job Ready PA will help current workers upgrade
    their skills and train for higher demand, higher
    paying jobs

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Outcomes
  • Deeper understanding of high growth occupations
  • More effective career education
  • New educational and earning opportunities
  • Better outcomes through improved performance
  • Larger volume of highly-skilled workforce in
    targeted industries
  • Stronger, more innovative, highly competitive
    companies
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