Journey to Jobs Initiative: The transformation strategy to develop, attract and retain talent

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Journey to Jobs Initiative The transformation
strategy to develop, attract and retain talent

• Central New York Region
• presented by
• Lenore Sealy, Executive Director
• Onondaga County Workforce Investment Board

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Central New York 5 county region

• Formally established in 1966 through Regional
  Planning and Development Board
• Proximity to the intersection of Interstates 81
  and 90
• Commutation patterns link all five counties to
  the Syracuse MSA
• Shared history, demographics, natural resources,
  and business challenges
• Significant concentrations of colleges and
  universities

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Issues facing CNY region
Its all about talent

• 40-50 eligible to retire by 2010
• Feb 2007 CNY labor force 1.1 less than one year
  ago
• In 2004, population in the 20-34 age range fell
  27.2 in Onondaga County
• 70 of future jobs will require beyond HS
  education
• NYS reported 67 graduation rates in 2004 50
  of African Americans, and 15 of Hispanic
  students in the upstate urban cohort graduated
• In CNY the availability of a skilled workforce is
  a deciding factor in business attraction

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Organizations focused on programs
Business
Economic Development
Workforce Development
Education
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Organizations focused on programs
Business
Economic Development
Workforce Development
Education
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Organizations focused on programs
Economic Development
Business
Workforce Development
Education
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Organizations focused on programs
Economic Development
Business
Workforce Development
Education
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Organizations focused on programs
Economic Development
Business
Workforce Development
Education
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Organizations focused on programs
Economic Development
Business
Workforce Development
Education
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Experience/Undergrad to PhD Experience/Undergrad
to Masters Undergrad Certificate, License,
Associates Degree HS Diploma, License 7 -
11 K - 6
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Some decisionsrescience/math choices
Core skills
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focused on economic vitality

• Economic Drivers
• Biotechnology /Bioprocessing
• Energy and Environmental Systems
• Health Care
• Information Management
• Advanced Manufacturing

Central New York
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focused on drivers
The Goal Fortify economic drivers
Central New York
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focused on talent
Strategy Develop, attract, and retain talent
Central New York
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Actions to implement strategy

• Actions
• Develop entrepreneurship supports
• Create and expand a continuum of education and
  training
• Increase worker credentialing
• Build business capacity through employer
  training
• Apply literacy contextualized to work and life
  skills
• Promote and expand opportunities for
  internships/mentoring/job shadowing
• Increase regional awareness of economic drivers
  and related career pathways within/outside the
  region
• Align and leverage regional capacity through
  replication and assessment

Central New York
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CNY Model for Transformation

• Actions
• Develop entrepreneurship supports
• Create and expand a continuum of education and
  training
• Increase worker credentialing
• Build business capacity through employer training
  
• Apply literacy contextualized to work and life
  skills
• Promote and expand opportunities for
  internships/mentoring/job shadowing
• Increase regional awareness of economic drivers
  and related career pathways within/outside the
  region
• Align and leverage regional capacity through
  replication and assessment

EconomicDrivers AdvancedManufacturing Inform
ationManagement Biotechnology/ Bioprocessing En
ergyand Environment Health Care
Strategy Develop, attractand retain talent

• Goal
• Fortify economic drivers

Feedback Loop for Continuous Improvement
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Experience/Undergrad to PhD Experience/Undergrad
to Masters Undergrad Certificate, License,
Associates Degree HS Diploma, License 7 -
11 K - 6
Job
Job
Job
Job
Job
Job
Job
Job
Job
Job
Job
Job
Job
Job
Job
Job
Job
Job
Job
Job
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Some decisionsrescience/math choices
Core skills
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Actions for transformation

• Develop entrepreneurship supports
• Request 250,000
• Collaborative projects such as
• Support entrepreneur competitions, e.g. Stardust
  Institute for Innovation at Cayuga Community
  College
• Implement programs increasing the attraction and
  retention of diverse and new American
  entrepreneurs and professionals
• Research and academic support for entrepreneurial
  efforts
• Leveraged resources
• Small Business Development programs, e.g. OCC and
  SUNY Oswego
• Womens Business Innovation Center

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Actions for transformation

• Create and expand a continuum of education and
  training for new and incumbent workers for the
  five economic drivers
• Request 1,039,179
• Collaborative projects such as
• Online regional database of education/training
  opportunities
• Increased support for literacy contextualized in
  work settings
• Educational programs around emerging science and
  technology transfer, e.g. Renewable
  Energy/Climate Control Technology at SUNY ESF and
  Biotechnology Degree program at TC3
• Leveraged resources
• Existing ESOL programs to build incumbent worker
  programs
• Database information architecture exists

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Actions for transformation

• Increase worker credentialing
• Request 887,820
• Collaborative projects such as
• Expand certificate, credentialing and skill
  building programs to help individuals find
  employment
• Explore certificates as additional graduation
  outcomes
• Develop work ready communities
• Leveraged resources
• Existing career ladder maps (research science,
  health care, energy)
• Existing WorkKeys, Certificate of Workforce
  Competency, and National Work Readiness
  Credential

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Actions for transformation

• Build business capacity through employer training
  
• Request 565,500
• Collaborative projects such as
• Develop programs for business leadership
  addressing changing workforce and global
  marketplace needs
• Create inter-institutional and cross-sectional
  professional exchanges, e.g. Speaker Series
• Funds to support implementation coaches
• Leveraged resources
• Training grants e.g. WIA funds, IEP, private
  business funds
• Speaker programs through local colleges,
  universities, and professional associations

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Actions for transformation

• Apply literacy contextualized to work and life
  skills
• Request 116,160
• Collaborative projects such as
• Develop a strategic plan (2008) with measurable
  and acceptable outcome indicators
• Promote community awareness and action
• Improved life and work skills for immigrant
  populations
• Improved technology literacy for aged 50
  workforce
• Teachers in the workplace to build curriculum
• Use of technology to expand regional
  instructional capacity
• Leveraged resources
• Family Literacy Alliance Greater Syracuse
• Regional school district/BOCES literacy programs

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Actions for transformation

• Promote and expand opportunities
  forinternships/mentoring/job shadowing
• Request 468,750
• Collaborative projects such as
• Expand and maintain a database containing
  internships/mentoring/job shadowing opportunities
  
• Expand paid opportunities for job seekers,
  professionals, and high school and college
  students
• Build regional capacity via skills transfer
  through mentoring opportunities engaging 50 and
  diverse workforce
• Leveraged resources
• Private business funding
• Existing internship programs and services, e.g.
  Project Ion, individual college career planning
  and placement offices
• WIA programs for at-risk youths
• Middle/High school level mentoring and job shadow
  programs

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Actions for transformation

• Increase regional awareness of economic drivers
  and related career pathways within and outside
  the region
• Request 259,000
• Collaborative projects such as
• Establish online career ladder maps for each of
  the economic drivers
• Develop, market, and maintain educational support
  materials
• Promote continuum of technical and professional
  opportunities
• Leveraged resources
• Existing career ladder maps
• NYS DOL career ladder grant to Onondaga and
  Cayuga-Cortland WIBs

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Actions for transformation

• Align and leverage regional capacity through
  replication and assessment
• Request 947,600
• Collaborative projects such as
• Survey current and future skills requirements,
  ascertain needs, fill gaps
• Leverage National Advisory Boards expertise in
  assessment, sustainability, and replication for
  continuous improvement
• Communicate programmatic successes and best
  practice models
• Implement response team as a catalyst for
  economic opportunities
• Leveraged resources
• J2J Team and work groups

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Budget over three years
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3
GrantRequested Grant Requested Grant Requested Total grant
Entrepreneurship 50,000 100,000 100,000 250,000
Continuum of training for new and incumbent workers 310,685 386,260 342,234 1,039,179
Credentialing 150,000 368,910 368,910 887,820
Employer training 46,000 250,750 268,750 565,500
Contextualized literacy 38,720 38,720 38,720 116,160
Intern/mentor/job shadow 93,750 187,500 187,500 468,750
Career ladder 90,000 99,000 70,000 259,000
Assessment/replication 219,200 364,200 364,200 947,600
Administration 120,000 150,000 166,000 436,000
Total 1,118,355 1,945,340 1,906,314 4,970,009
Leveraged dollars 12,500,000
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CNY Model for Transformation

• Actions
• Develop entrepreneurship supports
• Create and expand a continuum of education and
  training
• Increase worker credentialing
• Build business capacity through employer training
  
• Apply literacy contextualized to work and life
  skills
• Promote and expand opportunities for
  internships/mentoring/job shadowing
• Increase regional awareness of economic drivers
  and related career pathways within/outside the
  region
• Align and leverage regional capacity through
  replication and assessment

EconomicDrivers AdvancedManufacturing Inform
ationManagement Biotechnology/ Bioprocessing En
ergyand Environment Health Care
Strategy Develop, attractand retain talent

• Goal
• Fortify economic drivers

Feedback Loop for Continuous Improvement
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Building on success
Journey to Jobs Initiative Project Management
Structure
J2J Leadership Team
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Measures of success
Goal Fortify economic drivers Business growth
in economic drivers
Strategy Develop, attract, retain talent

• Develop Number of people employed
• Attract and Retain Labor workforce growth
• Number of collaborative projects successfully
  completed

Regional Existing performance measures

• DOL Common Measures
• Increased retention
• Average earnings

Implementation Collaborative Work Group Projects

• Measures and Models team will help develop and
  roll up measures of success
• Examples of measures include

• Number of internships/mentoring/job shadows
• Number of certificates issued/graduation rates
• Number of small businesses assisted
• Improved literacy

• Number of successful class completions
• Career ladders used by MS-college
• Improved customer satisfaction

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CNY Impact
Stem loss in labor force through attraction and
retention
Build capacity by actively engaging mature,
immigrant, and diverse worker populations
Improve graduationrates for all students
Increase business attraction in economic drivers
Increase responsivenessthrough regional
cooperation
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