Connect Long Island Partnership

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Connect Long Island Partnership Long Island
Regional Innovation Grant Project

• Regional Strategic Implementation Plan Summary

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The Six Critical Phases of Economic Transformation
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Table of Contents (This table refers to the full
Plan. Some of the items listed are not included
in this presentation.)

• Table of Contents
• Executive Summary
• Organization Chart
• Achievements and Promising Practices
• II. Regional Identity and Vision
• III. Goals and Strategies
• IV. Governance
• V. Operations
• VI. Leveraged Resources
• VII. Sustainability
• Attachment A Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities
  Threats Analysis Report Focus
• Rapid Response and Business Retention Prepared
  by the Long Island Forum for Technology
• (LIFT)
• Attachment B Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities
  Threats Analysis Report Focus
• Entrepreneurship Prepared by Center for
  Governmental Research (CGR) in association with
  the

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Executive Summary
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Background

• Funded by a grant awarded by the U.S. Department
  of Labor to the Town of Hempstead Department of
  Occupational Resources (DOOR), on behalf of the
  Connect Long Island Partnership
• Connect Long Island is coordinated by the Long
  Island Forum for Technology (LIFT) and includes
  the regions three Local Workforce Investment
  Boards (LWIBs), the New York State Department of
  Labor (NYSDOL), the Long Island Regional Adult
  Education Network (LI-RAEN), New York State
  Empire State Development Corporation and other
  partners

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Project Purpose

• To enhance our regional economic transformation
  strategy by creating a Regional Strategic
  Implementation Plan to convert dislocated workers
  into skilled workers in our talent pipeline
• Strategies contained in the Plan will also
  benefit economically disadvantaged adults, youth,
  veterans, individuals with disabilities, older
  workers and other underutilized workers

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SWOT Analysis

• Conducted a Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities
  and Threats or SWOT Analysis in two categories
• Category One, prepared by the Long Island Forum
  for Technology (LIFT), focuses on Rapid Response
  and Business Retention
• Category Two, prepared by the Center for
  Governmental Research (CGR), in association with
  the Scott Skodek Business Development Center of
  Hofstra University, focuses on Entrepreneurship

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Category One prepared by the Long Island Forum
for Technology (LIFT), focuses on Rapid Response
and Business Retention (Summary)

• Strengths
• Regional workforce team (i.e. Connect Long Island
  Partnership)
• Regional high tech workforce, industry and small
  businesses
• Weaknesses
• Regional stovepipes
• Lack of early warning network and
  response/mitigation trigger points
• Opportunities
• Develop early warning process and leverage
  partnerships
• Develop technology to implement above
• Threats
• Failure to develop an early warning process
• Continue to regionally operate in a stove pipe
  manner

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Category Two, prepared by the Center for
Governmental Research (CGR), in association with
the Scott Skodnek Business Development Center of
Hofstra University, focuses on Entrepreneurship
(Summary)

• Strengths
• Ample supply of training and financial resources
• Existing and established programs provide
  foundation to build upon
• Proximity to Greater New York provides deep well
  of potential
• Target group possesses education, experience and
  skills
• Weaknesses
• Low-to-moderate understanding of resources and
  their availability
• Limited use of publically-funded supports for
  small business development
• Current resource programs exhibit only moderate
  levels of coordination
• Many rate as low the effectiveness of the
  regions entrepreneurial network
• Limited use of detailed data to identify specific
  occupational dislocations
• Process not in place for evaluating potential
  entrepreneurs and ventures

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Category Two, prepared by the Center for
Governmental Research (CGR), in association with
the Scott Skodnek Business Development Center of
Hofstra University, focuses on Entrepreneurship
(Summary) (continued)

• Opportunities
• Education to inform about available resources and
  how to access detailed Warn Notice data on
  specific occupational dislocations
• Entrepreneurs express interest in accessing
  additional resources
• Utilization of ONet to guide resource
  development in targeted ways
• Inform/train One-Stop counselors on
  entrepreneurial resources
• Develop and fund a program to allocate seed money
  to entrepreneurs meeting specific criteria
• Threats
• Duplication/overlap may spread resource network
  too thinly
• Uncertainty of funding for new programs and/or
  process improvements

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Purpose of Implementation Plan

• Describe a regional strategic planning process to
  equip dislocated workers with the information and
  skills needed to navigate emerging career
  pathways in transformative industry sectors
• To accomplish this, we must
• Establish and maintain partnerships
• Leverage resources
• Implement innovative methods

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Articulation with Connect Long Island Partnership

• The LIRIG Implementation Plan is closely aligned
  with NYSDOLs Regional Economic Transformation
  Strategies through a Sector or Cluster-Based
  Approach (Request for Proposals Number 13N)
• Both the LIRIG and the 13N Projects operate under
  the umbrella of our overarching transformation
  strategy, the Connect Long Island Partnership
• The Connect Long Island Partnership is
  coordinated by LIFT, under the auspices of the
  Executive Committee

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Section I Achievements and Promising Practices
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Achievements and Promising Practices

• Established a Regional Strategic Implementation
  Plan to help satisfy industry skill demands with
  dislocated and underutilized workers
• Implemented the LIRIG Worker Skills Supply Survey
  at regional rapid response events
• Cross-referenced worker skills supply survey data
  with industry demand data generated under the 13N
  Regional Transformation Grant Project
• Applied mapping technology to identify industry
  locations and worker skill clusters (For a
  demonstration visit www.connectli.com)
• Applied of emergency management principles and
  techniques to evaluate and improve our rapid
  response process
• Posted of the Dislocation Event Log for strategic
  planning
• Conducted analysis and planning to develop a
  significant portion of our talent pipeline
  through entrepreneurial training

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Achievements and Promising Practices (continued)

• Enhanced our regional leadership and
  collaboration through the Connect Long Island
  Partnership, evidenced by our success in forming
  grant project consortia and in accessing grant
  funds for the benefit of the region
• Positioned Long Island to react quickly and
  effectively to opportunities for innovation
  created by the Recovery Act
• Identified technology options that will support
  transformation activities
• Developed the Green and Lean and YouthLink
  Projects (Funded under New York State Department
  of Labor Grants described in Section II below)
• Implemented new curricula for Summer Youth
  Employment and Training Programs, developed by
  Paxen Learning Corporation, including From STEM
  to Stern Long Islands Future and Green Jobs in
  the Economy

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Section II

• Regional Identity and Vision

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Definition of Region

• Region defined as Nassau and Suffolk Counties
• Possesses a separate economic identity, distinct
  industry characteristics, and a workforce that
  constitutes more than 1.4 million workers (New
  York State Department of Labor (NYSDOL) Division
  of Research and Statistics)

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Regional Strategic Vision

• We envision a regional economic transformation on
  Long Island that
• will be achieved through the efficient leveraging
  of the Connect Long
• Island Partnership to create and maintain
• A sturdy foundation for innovation,
  entrepreneurship and investment
• Business and industry growth and prosperity
• A highly talented workforce that engages all
  workers to their fullest potential
• Education and training curricula and courses of
  study that meet the demands of evolving career
  pathways
• Wages that are commensurate with the local
  standard of living and that support a high
  quality of life
• A cost effective, attractive, environmentally
  friendly healthy place for workers to advance in
  their careers, raise families and contribute to
  our future

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Actions Required by Connect LI to Achieve
Regional Vision

• Secure adequate funding
• Foster a business growth environment with
  training, support and incentives for
  entrepreneurs
• Establish a strong working relationship between
  the planning and operational functions of partner
  organizations
• Maintain solid partnerships with business
• Ensure total quality management supported by a
  robust data collection, management information
  and analysis system

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What Long Island Will be Best at if our Vision is
Realized

• Developing, retaining and attracting a highly
  talented workforce

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Regional Opportunities that Connect LI is
Currently Pursuing

• Expanded and targeted education and workforce
  development services to dislocated workers,
  unemployed adults, youth and underutilized
  workers
• A transparent system for growth that can identify
  a multiplicity of opportunities, facilitating a
  flow of human capital to the most viable options
• Closer working partnerships with business and
  industry to contextualize curriculum development,
  education and training
• Creation of career pathways for our workforce
• Application of new technology to increase access
  to and efficiency in the delivery of reemployment
  and lifelong learning services

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Transformation of Connect LI

• To benefit from regional Opportunities,
• Connect LI must function as a transparent
• working partnership, beyond simple
• coordination, that engages industry,
• education, economic development,
• workforce development, organized labor,
• faith-based and community-based organizations

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Connect Long Islands Major Regional Assets

• 24 degree-granting colleges
• 37 economic development agencies
• Several incubator projects and Centers of
  Excellence
• Regional Economy Transformation Strategies
  through a Sector or Cluster Based Approach
  (NYSDOL RFP 13-N)
• NYSDOL RFP for Emerging and Transitional Worker
  Training Bid Q-37
• NYSDOL RFP for Disconnected Youth Training Bid
  46-Q
• New York Makes Work Pay Project, funded by a U.S.
  Department of Health and Human Services/New York
  State Office of Mental Health Medicaid
  Infrastructure Grant, which is jointly operated
  by the Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse
  University and the Employment and Disability
  Institute at Cornell University

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Existing Regional Assessment and Asset Mapping
Tools

• Dislocation Event Log, posted to the web, under a
  password protected section (The log can be
  accessed by local workforce investment board
  directors and other key stakeholders. The
  purpose of the password protection is to ensure
  discretion in cases where layoffs are not yet
  confirmed.)
• A soon to be implemented Layoff Aversion model
  that uses the term Dashboard to describe a
  range of information indicators, including Dunn
  Bradstreet financials, to serve as early alert
  indicators
• 13N Industry Survey
• LIRIG Worker Skills/Education Survey

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Regional Assets that Can be Leveraged within an
Achievable Timeframe

• 13-N survey data and training funds
• Local One-Stop systems, including American
  Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds
• HempsteadWorks Green and Lean Grant (Q-37)
• HempsteadWorks YouthLink Grant (46-Q)
• National Emergency Grant (NEG) Funds
• K through 12 and postsecondary college and
  university systems
• Economic development programs and funding

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Section III

• Goals and Strategies

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Goal 1 - Creation of a web-based inventory of the
skills of dislocated workers and other
underutilizedworkers

• Outcomes
• Existing skills of workers in our talent pipeline
  can be evaluated
• Gaps between skills supply and industry demand
  can be easily assessed

• Strategies and Activities
• Require uniform entries into the New York State
  One-Stop Operating System (OSOS), throughout the
  Long Island Region and New York State if
  possible, to record worker skills
• Administer surveys to gather skills data from
  workers and record in a standardized reporting
  format
• Post skills data on a regional web site, and/or
  on a link to local web sites accessed by the
  Connect Long Island Partnership

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Goal 2 Alignment of the service process for
affected employees across the Region

• Outcome
• Customers experience uniform rapid response
  services and referral to One-Stop Systems

• Strategies and Activities
• Convene a Rapid Response Operations Work Group to
  increase uniformity of services
• Require the Rapid response Work Group to report
  to the Connect Long Island Executive Committee on
  a regular basis
• Use employee dislocation data more strategically
  to target prospective entrepreneurs
• Aggressively inform and educate existing and
  budding entrepreneurs programs available to them

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Goal 2 Alignment of the service process for
affected employees across the Region (continued)

• Outcome
• Customers experience uniform rapid response
  services and referral to One-Stop Systems

• Strategies and Activities
• Ensure One-Stop counselors have adequate training
  in available programs, services and funding
  opportunities regarding entrepreneurial
  activities
• Establish a more effective up-front evaluation
  mechanism for potential entrepreneurs
• Leverage new technology to improve access to
  services and increase efficiency in service
  deliver, including Skills Matching and Referral
  Technology (SMART 2010) PBS Literacy Link
  LinkedIn etc.
• Implement of virtual and in-person Discovery and
  Social Networking Workshops for workers to
  discover their skills and utilize new
  technologies

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Goal 3 - Development of a computer program to
cross-reference the skills inventory with
industry occupational demands identified by the
Connect Long Island Partnership

• Outcome
• Transparency of the talent supply and industry
  demand

• Strategies and Activities
• Write a new computer program to be utilized by
  the Long Island Region, or purchase software to
  perform this function
• Utilize automated tools for research, including
  Burning Glass Technologies ONet Skills
  Profiler, etc. (See Attachment E Technology
  Options)

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Goal 4 - Publication of a web-based, updatable
skills gap report

• Outcomes
• Closer, more productive relationship among
  industry, the workforce, education and economic
  development
• Quicker and more efficient job matching
• Quicker and more efficient diagnosis of skills
  gaps
• Better articulation between worker supply and
  industry demand

• Strategies and Activities
• Mobilize partners to plan services in response to
  data findings
• Establish a process for on-going cycle of data
  collection, reporting, analysis, action and
  evaluation
• Utilize the USDOL Competency-Based Model to
  identify the skills required for specific
  industries, to create an inventory of the skills
  that workers possess and then to overlay the two
  to identify gaps and design training to fill
  those gaps

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Goal 5 - Transformation of our reemployment
system into a regional innovation system that
aligns economic development, education and
workforce initiatives

1. Combination of the Specific Outcomes described
   Goals I through IV above.

1. Combination of the Strategies and Activities
   described Goals I through IV above.

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Alignment of Education, Workforce and Business

• In addition to the goals described above,
  alignment of the
• three systems of education, workforce, and
  business can
• be achieved through a commitment by all three
  that the
• Connect Long Island transformation initiative
  will be
• integrated with their individual planning and
  operations
• activities
• These three systems can work together to create
  contextualized curricula for education and
  training, facilitate navigation of workers to
  education and training, share information and to
  provide opportunities for workers to gain skills
  and to apply those skills in the workplace, while
  earning livable wages

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Evaluation of Regional Strategic Implementation
Plan

• Evaluated by the Center for Essential Management
  Services (CEMS), a contractor retained to provide
  a professional evaluation (See Attachment G)
• In addition to the performance metrics that will
  be used to assess the extent to which we are
  successful in implementing our Plan will include
  feedback from the Connect Long Island Partnership
  and the analysis of economic indicators

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Section IV

• Governance

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Leadership

• The leadership team for the LIRIG Project is the
  Connect Long Island Executive Committee
• The Executive Committee will evaluate the
  progress made toward achieving each of its goals
  on an annual basis
• All key stakeholders will be engaged in the
  decision-making process through clear lines of
  communication, including in-person meetings,
  e-mail, surveys, etc.
• Decisions in key areas will be made by the
  Executive Committee in consultation with the full
  partnership

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Leadership Objectives

• Clearly defined roles for the leadership and
  operations of the Connect Long Island Partnership
• Increased access to information regarding
  industry skill demands, worker skills, skill
  gaps, available education and training
• Increased skills among the underutilized segments
  of the workforce, including mature workers,
  disconnected youth, individuals with
  disabilities, limited English proficient (LEP)
  individuals, etc.
• Greater transparency of data and information
• A closer connection between Rapid Response, labor
  exchange, and retraining
• Improved layoff aversion capability
• Operational services within One-Stop Centers that
  are responsive to strategic planning activities

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Strategies to Achieve Leadership Objectives

• Focused planning meetings of the Connect Long
  Island Partnership and Executive Committee
• Programming or purchase of a skills data base
  system
• Establishment of a transformation web site or web
  links
• Development of venues for key stakeholders to
  meet and achieve alignment
• Leveraging of new and additional resources
• Partnerships with supporting initiatives, such as
  the Strategic Early Warning Network
• Proactive strategic planning to prepare our
  region to benefit from emerging industry sector,
  such as the green sector
• Strengthening and alignment of our regional
  entrepreneurial programs
• Elimination service barriers created by separate
  smokestacks or silos

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Governance Agreement

• Interventions/course corrections will made
  through the consensus of the Connect Long Island
  Executive Committee
• Our governance will be documented by an agreement
  among the parties of the Executive Committee and
  our partner organizations
• Provisions will be in place for appealing
  decisions or dispute resolution through the
  process described in our agreement

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Section V

• Operations

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Internal Communication

• Meetings of the Executive Committee
• E-mail, web site postings, teleconferences, etc.
• The Executive Committee will disseminate
  information to the partners

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External Communication

• External communication with the broader region,
  the average citizen, and the media will be
  accomplished the reports, web postings, etc.
• Web-based surveys will be utilized for obtaining
  feedback/input from the broader region

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Section VI

• Leveraged Resources

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Programs/Funding to be Leveraged

• Workforce Investment Act WIA Title I-B Adults,
  Dislocated Workers and Youth)
• Job Corps
• Wagner-Peyser Act
• Trade Adjustment Assistance and North American
  Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Transitional
  Adjustment Assistance
• Activities Authorized under Chapter 41 of Title
  38 Local Veterans Employment Representatives and
  Disabled Veterans Outreach Programs
• Programs Authorized under State Unemployment
  Compensation Laws
• WIA Title II Adult Education and Literacy Act
• Title I of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
• Title V of the Older Americans Act
• Post Secondary Vocational Education Activities
  Authorized under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational
  and Applied Technology Education Act
• Employment and Training Activities under the
  Community Services Block Grant
• TANF Programs Authorized under Part A of Title IV
  of the Social Security Act
• Programs authorized under the National and
  Community Service Act
• YouthBuild
• Other Appropriate Programs, including Programs
  relating to Transportation and Housing, etc.
• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

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Grant Development

• Additional grant funding and leveraged resources
  will be developed in accordance with the Connect
  Long Island transformation strategy

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Examples of Grants Pursued to Date

• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services/New
  York State Office of Mental Health Medicaid
  Infrastructure Grant
• NYSDOL RFP for Emerging and Transitional Worker
  Training Bid Q-37)
• NYSDOL RFP for Disconnected Youth Training Bid
  46-Q
• USDOL American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of
  2009 Solicitation for Energy Partnership Grants,
  Funding - SGA/DFA PY 08-18
• USDOL ARRA of 2009 Solicitation for State Energy
  Partnership and Training Grants PY-08-20
• USDOL ARRA of 2009 Solicitation for Health Care
  Sector Grants, Funding SGA/DFA PY 08-18

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Section VII

• Sustainability

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Sustainability

• The Connect LI Executive Committee and
  Partnership is approaching all projects involving
  the stakeholders as part of the transformation
  effort
• Connect LI is committed to adhering to a
  consistent process that will be sustained after
  the RIG funding period ends
• Social networking efforts will be undertaken on
  an on-going basis by the Executive Committee to
  ensure all regional stakeholders are engaged
• Through this social networking, we will ensure
  that all stakeholder groups are present at the
  discussion table and that new stakeholder groups
  are continually added based on regional data
  analysis

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Regional Economic Transformation Strategies 13N
Grant Industry Demand Skills Researched by
LIFT
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LIRIG Event Log
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Technology Options Researched by LIFT

• http//www.onetsocautocoder.com/plus/onetmatch
• http//www.missourieconomy.org/
• http//burning-glass.com/
• http//www.employon.com/
• http//workforceassociates.com/torq.html
• http//connectli.org

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Technology Options Researched by LIFT
(continued)

• To provide a listing in preferential order may
  not be justified here, as these websites combined
  bring an array of assistance. The ideal site
  would be to combine selected attributes below to
  those found in the (Missouri Economic Research
  and Information Center ) MERIC website.
  Attributes such as these will make the Long
  Island Region more efficient tool in assisting
  incumbent and displaced workers
• Customizable job search tools and create-manage
  ones own user accounts and run searches for job
  placements resume design, found in EmployOn
• Visual displays similar to TORG
• Lens Software System from Burning Glass
• Applicant Tracking System from Burning Glass
• Job Boards from Burning Glass

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LIFT/fourDscape - Visualization Techniques for
Workforce Resources - Demand and Supply
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Developing a Robust Platform for Real-Time Labor
Market Analysis, Written By EmployOn
Technologies, Inc. and Burning Glass
International, Inc.

• This abstract is presented as an example of a
  commercially available skills matching technology
  study that could be conducted for the Long Island
  Region.

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Independent Evaluation

• An independent evaluation of the LIRIG was
• completed by the Center for Essential
• Management Services is included.

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Acknowledgements

• The Connect Long Island Executive Committee would
  like
• to thank the United States Department of Labor
  for funding
• this project and providing technical assistance.
  The
• Committee would also like to thank the New York
  State
• Department of Labor for providing guidance and
• coordination. In addition, the Committee greatly
• appreciates the work of the members of the
  Innovation
• Workgroup in developing this Implementation Plan.
  The
• Committee would also like to thank the vendors
  who
• conducted the SWOT analysis and submitted final
  reports
• that were utilized in the creation of this
  document.

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Editors Notes

• In October of 2009, the New York State Department
  of Labor launched the Burning Glass SMART 2010
  Skills Matching and Referral Technology system
  pilot
• This pilot is being implemented in the Long
  Island Region

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For More Information Contact

• Ana-Maria Hurtado
• Commissioner/WIB Director
• Town of Hempstead
• Department of Occupational Resources
• 50 Clinton Street, Suite 400
• Hempstead, New York 11550
• [phone], ext. 1105
• [phone] (Fax)
• amh_at_hempsteadworks.com
• www.hempsteadworks.com