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
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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

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Four Critical Strategies

• Strengthen current industries
• Increase opportunities for residents
• Prepare youth for future careers
• Implement accountability standards

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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

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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

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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