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Title: The Business Relations Group Demand Driven Workforce Strategies


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The Business Relations GroupDemand Driven
Workforce Strategies
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  • EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION
  • UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

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Workforce Development Economic Development
  • Building and retaining a qualified and productive
    workforce is essential to enable every U.S.
    business to be successful, to promote job
    creation, and to grow our nations economy.

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Top Factors DeterminingEmployer Site Selection
  • 1. Availability of skilled labor 90.9
  • 2. Labor costs 89.9
  • 3. Tax exemptions 88.2
  • 4. State and local incentives 88.0
  • 5. Highway accessibility 86.6
  • 6. Corporate tax rate 84.6
  • 7. Proximity to major markets 83.7
  • 8. Occupancy or construction costs 82.4
  • 9. Energy availability and costs 80.9
  • 10. Environmental regulations 76.7
  • Area Development Magazine 2002 Survey

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21st Century Workforce Challenges
  • Globalization
  • Labor Pool Demographics
  • Increased Diversity
  • Technology and Innovation Changing the Work
  • Skill Gaps

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The Vision
  • Create a Demand-Driven
  • System to Ensure
  • No Worker is Left Behind

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What is Demand Driven?
  • Knowing where the jobs are both new jobs and
    current jobs that may be changing
  • Knowing the skills and competencies necessary to
    do those jobs
  • Understanding the labor market context
  • Strategic investment of 15 billion public
    workforce system resources
  • Working collaboratively with business and
    training providers to develop workforce
    solutions.

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Framework for Solutions
  • A Partnership must exist between Businesses,
    Education and Training Providers, and
  • the Workforce Investment System

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Role of the Partners
  • Industry defines the workforce challenges
  • Community Colleges assist in developing
    competency models and curricula
  • The public workforce system accesses human
    capital and places trained workers in jobs

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Partnerships for Jobs
  • Brokering the connection of large,
    national-in-scope businesses to public workforce
    system

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Partnerships for Jobs
  • Approximately 18 currently active partnerships
  • Moving to more uniform and streamlined approach
    with partners
  • Recent focus on rapid response and special
    populations

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Business Solutions
  • Similar to Partnerships for Jobs
  • Businesses and Organizations Presenting Workforce
    Challenges
  • Bringing Core ETA Components Together to Develop
    Solutions in Concert with System

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  • The Presidents High Growth
  • Job Training Initiative

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High-Growth Definition
  • High-Growth includes . . .
  • Industries with significant job growth
  • Industries that are critical to the nations
    economic viability and development
  • Industries that significantly impact the growth
    of other growth industries
  • New and emerging industries

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Targeted Industries
  • Automotive Services
  • Biotechnology
  • Geospatial
  • Construction
  • Health Services
  • Information Technology
  • High-Tech Manufacturing
  • Retail
  • Transportation
  • Hospitality
  • Financial Services
  • Energy

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Strategies
  • National leadership to engage industry leaders
  • Investment in national models and demonstrations
    of workforce solutions in high growth/high demand
    industries
  • Sharing information and models widely with the
    workforce system

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New Roles for Workforce System
  • Catalyst for bringing partners together
  • Building sustainable relationships
  • Focus on solutions
  • Resource leveraging

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Key Areas for the Workforce Investment System
  • New/Alternative Labor Pools
  • - Seniors
  • - VETS
  • - Immigrants
  • - Disabilities
  • Retention / Incumbent Worker
  • Transitioning / Declining Industries
  • Small Business Engagement
  • Pipeline
  • Career Voyages
  • Job Corps
  • Youth
  • At Risk Youth
  • Competency Model
  • Career Ladders
  • Career Lattices
  • Post Secondary and Alternative
  • Community Colleges
  • Apprenticeship

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Jobs for the 21st Century
  • Announced in Presidents State of the Union
    address
  • 250 million targeted to support training in
    high growth/high demand industries/occupations
    through community colleges
  • Extension of the Presidents High Growth Job
    Training Initiative
  • Operational Details Not Yet Available

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Capacity Building
  • Working collaboratively with State and Local
    Partners
  • Information and Tools for developing a community
    of practice
  • Peer to Peer Strategies

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The Business Relations Group Contact Information
  • Gay Gilbert, Director
  • Business Relations Group
  • U.S. Department of Labor
  • Employment and Training Administration
  • businessrelations_at_dol.gov
  • (202) 693-3949
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