Right Person

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Right Person Skills Job ONET and ETAs
Business Relations Group

• Presentation by
• Gay M. Gilbert, Acting Director, Business
  Relations Group, DOL/ETA
• Dr. Marilyn B. Silver, Vice President, Workforce
  Development Group, Aguirre International
  Director, Aguirre ONET Project
• Jim Woods, Director, Division of Evaluation and
  Skills Assessment
• Office of Policy Development, Evaluation and
  Research, DOL/ETA
• Washington DC March 4, 2003

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Introduction to the Business Relations Group

• U.S. Department of Labor
• Employment and Training Administration

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Creating a demand-driven system to ensureNo
Worker is Left Behind
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Goals for a Demand Driven System

• Business and industry find the public workforce
  system to be relevant in meeting their workforce
  needs
• The public workforce system is effectively
  investing 12 Billion

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• Workers have access to good jobs with good pay
  and career pathways
• Businesses successfully grow and build a strong
  economy that fosters more good jobs.

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STRATEGIES

• Outreach to business and industry
• Improved knowledge of skill needs for high growth
  industries
• Building the capacity of the workforce system to
  be demand driven

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Key Principles

• ETA as a Broker
• Collaboration between the workforce system and
  business/industry
• Two Customers
• Workers
• Business

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Partnerships for JOBS
Serving Americas workers by effectively meeting
the needs of business.

• U.S. Department of Labor
• Employment and Training Administration

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Partnerships for JOBS
Serving Americas workers by effectively meeting
the needs of business.
Fourteen Current and Continuing National Business
Partners
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Partnerships for JOBS
Serving Americas workers by effectively meeting
the needs of business.
Brokering the connection of large,
national-in-scope businesses to public workforce
system.
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Partnerships for JOBS
Serving Americas workers by effectively meeting
the needs of business.

• Benefits to Business
• Reduced recruitment/hiring costs
• The right people with the right skills at the
  right time
• Increased retention
• Improved diversity
• Support during downsizing/rightsizing
• Good corporate citizenship

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Partnerships for JOBS
Serving Americas workers by effectively meeting
the needs of business.

• Partnership Strategies
• National roll-out events
• Targeted local markets
• Web site
• Educating HR staff on workforce system
• Local models for replication
• The list is growing

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Partnerships for JOBS
Serving Americas workers by effectively meeting
the needs of business.

• Organizing to Support the Partnerships
• State Business Coordinators
• Regional Business Liaisons
• ETA National Office Liaisons
• Finalizing operations protocol

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Partnerships for JOBS
Serving Americas workers by effectively meeting
the needs of business.

• Measuring Success
• Businesses value the partnership
• The right people with the right skills
• Tracking the hiring process retention
• Overcoming system performance measures
• Continuous improvement

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Partnerships for JOBS
Serving Americas workers by effectively meeting
the needs of business.

• Challenges
• Connecting Businesses to Training Resources
• Getting the right people with the right skills
• Tracking success

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High-Growth Job Training Initiative

• U.S. Department of Labor
• Employment and Training Administration

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High-Growth Definition

• ETA defines
• high-growth industries and sectors
• as industries and sectors predicted to encounter
  either
• high-growth in new jobs or
• high rate of change in their workforces

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• The High-Growth Job Training Initiative Seeks
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• To identify skill needs and skill gaps for high
  growth industries now and into the future.
• Develop model training initiatives and strategies
  to address industry needs

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The High-Growth JobTraining Initiative Seeks to

• Foster strategic alliances between the community
  and technical college system, employers, and the
  public workforce system
• Respond to the needs of the labor market for
  skilled workers by becoming a demand-driven
  system

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Targeted Industries

• Services Industry
• Automotive Services
• Health Services Sector
• IT IT Business-related Services Sector
• GeoSpatial
• BioTech
• Retail Industry
• Financial Industry
• Transportation Industry
• Manufacturing Industry

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ONET, BRG, DOLETA Aguirre International

• Thank you for joining us today
• at the
• NAWB Focus 2003
• Washington DC