Innovating Indiana

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• Innovating Indiana
• Improving Indianas
• Workforce

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Goals

• Grow Jobs
• Increase Personal Income
• Provide Premier Customer Service

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PARTNERS

• Department of Workforce Development
• Indiana Economic Development Corp.
• Regional Workforce Boards
• ACT

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Job Profiling
Assessment
Instructional
Support
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COMPONENTS

• Workkeys Assessments DWD
• Profiling
  DWD Vendors
• Skills Gap Training IEDC
• Certifications/Credentials DWD
• Skills Enhancement Funds IEDC

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Improving the Quality of Indianas Workforce
Communication SkillsListeningReading for
InformationBusiness WritingWriting Problem-Solvi
ng SkillsApplied MathematicsApplied
TechnologyLocating InformationObservation Interp
ersonal SkillsTeamwork
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Are students ready for work? Opinions of high
school students vs. employers on whether students
are very well prepared in these skills

• Students Skill Employers
• 66 Work in diverse groups
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• 57 Oral communication
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• 45 Written communication
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• 62 Able to meet deadlines
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• 62 Basic math skills
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• 28 Basic computer skills
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• USA Snapshots (USA Today)

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Challenges Facing Businesses

• Finding and Training the Right People
• Strengthening Applicant Pools
• Increasing Employee Productivity
• Getting the Most from Training Dollars
• Boosting Morale and Reducing Turnover
  
• Virtually every worker in the 21st century
  will need strong foundations in the eight basic
  skill sets measured by ACTs
  WorkKeys.
• - Richard Judy Workforce
  Development Director, Hudson Institute, Author
  of Workforce 2000 and Workforce 2020

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Employee Selection and Development

• Consistent method to refine applicant pools
• Match Candidates to Jobs for which they are
  Best
• Qualified
• Identify Skill Gaps that can hinder an
  employees ability to
• work at peak performance
  
  
  
  
• Target specific training needs to increase
  performance

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Job Profiling (Job Analysis)
Profile of necessary skillsidentified by
employeesworking on widgetassembly
Levels identified are a resultof job profiling
using theWorkKeys Metric.
Teamwork
Reading for information
Applied Mathematics
Applied Technology
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Skill Assessment
How job candidate Pat Smith performed on those
key skills areas assessedfor the widget
assembly job
Levels identified are a resultof assessment
using theWorkKeys Metric.
Teamwork
Reading for information
Applied Mathematics
Applied Technology
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Instructional Support
A comparison of PatSmiths skill levels withthe
skill requirements forthe widget assembly job
Teamwork
Reading for information
Applied Mathematics
Applied Technology
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PROFILING PROCESS
IMPORTANCE
TASKS CRITICAL TO THE JOB
ALL TASKS
RELATIVE TIME SPENT
PROFILE
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JOB PROFILES

• One page application
• Profilers work with company subject matter
  experts
• Up to 5 job profiles per year
• No charge to the company
• Less than one week to complete
  
• Company retains all documentation (Quality)
  
  
  

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WorkKeys Skills Assessments

• Not Normative
• Work Related, Timed and Secure
• Certification of Skill Levels
• Paper-Pencil, Video, Audio
• Meets EEOC Guidelines
• Used in Any Combination
• Two Forms (except Teamwork)

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Assessment Services

• Standardized tests are administered to
• Job Applicants
• Employees
• Students
• to determine their actual skill levels in any
  and all of the nine WorkKeys skill areas.
• When people learn their test results, they
  often gain insight into the reason they have had
  trouble finding a joband some have used WorkKeys
  to set new career goals that fit their particular
  abilities.
• Jan Robertson,
• 
  Human Resources
  Development, Canada

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ASSESSMENTS

• 30 to 65 minute exams
• Assessments in 5 core categories
• No charge to the company (up to two times)
• New or incumbent workers
  
• Developed in accordance with EEOC standards
  
  
  

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TRAINING GRANTS for SKILLS GAP

• Administered by IEDC
• No Investment requirement
• Up to 75 of eligible training expenses
• Training for new and/or Incumbent Workers
  
• Companies may also be eligible for SEF
  
  
  
  
  
  

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Businesses Face Many Challenges

• Increase Employee Productivity
• Getting the Most From Training Dollars
• Finding and Training the Right People
• Strengthening Applicant Pools
• Boosting Morale and Reducing Turnover
• Because of the high expectations, we want
  to select the best candidates, and its important
  for us to have an objective tool for deciding
  whom to hire. Work Keys provides that tool
• George Linden MM Mars
• Personnel and Organization Manager.

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Employers Benefits

• Preemployment Screening
• Employees have needed foundation skills
• Improve employee selection procedures
• Reduces hiring time/ reduced hiring costs
• Reduce turnover/attendance problems
• Fewer legal challenges over selection issues
• Identification of employee training needs

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• Selection tool for advancement opportunities
• Training diagnostic for incumbent workforce
• Job classification and wage scales
• Succession planning - skills inventory
• Outplacement programs - skill credentials
• Community workforce skills modeling
• The system has to be fast and flexible, readily
  accessible, cost-effective, EEOC compliant,
  easily tailored, statistically valid, and
  reliable. Based on these criteria, WorkKeys was
  the clear choice.
• Karen Coffee, State of California

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Benefits to Workforce Development

• Meet requirements of WIA using a national system
  that is Market Driven, Customer-Focused, Skill
  Based, and Results-Oriented
• Provide standardized assessments, validated with
  businesses, that measure foundational workplace
  skills
• Communicate workplace skill requirements using a
  standardized job analysis procedure
• Education and career planning using data to
  compare current skills and interests to job
  requirements
• Provide evaluation, research, and reporting
  services to assess needs and measure progress
• Document work-related skills on an official skill
  report for clients to use with prospective
  employers
• Reporting of regional skill information that can
  be used for economic and workforce development
• Work with business and education using a common
  language to create a highly-skilled workforce

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WorkKeys Business Clients
US
INDIANA

• Anheuser-Busch
• Archer-Daniels Midland
• Dow Chemical
• Dupont
• Miller Brewing
• MasterFoods (MM Mars)
• Harley Davidson
• Northrop-Grumman

• Eli Lilly
• Alcoa
• AM General
• Fairfield Mfg
• General Mills
• Wabash National
• Metaldyne
• Subaru of Indiana

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• Major Areas of Focus.
• ADVANCED MANUFACTURING
• 21st CENTURY LOGISTICS
• INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
• LIFE SCIENCES
• High Skill, High Wage Positions
• 1800 COMPANIES TO RECEIVE UP TO FIVE PROFILES
  EACH AND WORK KEYS ASSESSMENTS.

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• As of April 20, 2007
• 1186 Jobs Profiled
• 359,168 Applicant Assessments
• 97,929 Individuals Assessed
• 20,196 New Hires
• 24 Profilers

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