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Employer Engagement in a WIOA World
NERETAApril 28, 2016
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Less than a high school diploma
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Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Employer Perspective
• Percentage of executives that believe current employs are not sufficient in key skills:– IT/Technology 70%– Problem Solving Skills 69%– Basic technical training 67%– Math skills 60%
Source: US Department of Education
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Factors Companies Look For:
• Proximity to Major Markets
• Infrastructure/Built environment
• Proximity to Suppliers
• Availability of Skilled Workforce
• Incentives
• Costs/Regulations
Federal Sources of Workforce Development/Economic Development Funding
• US Department of Labor• US Department of Health and Human Services• US Department of Agriculture• US Department of Education• US Department of Commerce
What is Wrong with this Picture?
HUD
CSBG
TANF
Wagner Peyser
UI
TRADE ACT
Veteran’sPrograms
Food Stamps
WIOA Voc. Rehab
The One Stop
The Job Driven Workforce System
• Contributes to a strong, growing economy by responding to the workforce needs of regional and local business to ensure positive employment for job seekers.
• The backbone of this system is the national network of more than 2,500 American Job Centers.
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WIOA and Employer Engagement• Employers as customers
– Screening– Training
• Employer as advisors– Governance– One Stop Development– Planning
• Employers as partners– Sectoral Strategies
Sector Strategies
Sector strategies are regional, industry-focused approaches to workforce and economic development that improve access to good jobs and increase job quality in ways that strengthen an industry’s workforce.
Components of Sector Strategies
• Targeting of specific industries and clusters• Support workers competing for quality job
opportunities• Address employer needs and competitiveness• Create lasting change in the labor market
Transforming US Workforce Development Policies for the 21 Century
Do Sector Strategies Work
• Program participation• Program completion• Credential rates• Employment• Retention• Wages
Transforming US Workforce Development Policies for the 21 Century
What Are the Challenges?• Start up• Funding• Mistrust
– Fear of poaching– Aversion to working with Government
• Customer mismatch– Literacy/numeracy– Work ethic
Transforming US Workforce Development Policies for the 21 Century
Engaging Employers
• Employer investments in training are substantially higher than the public investment
• Areas to engage employers– Governance– Program design– Program delivery– Hiring
Transforming US Workforce Development Policies for the 21 Century
Barriers to Employer Engagement
• Start up• Difficulty financing curriculum design• Regulations• “Language barriers”• Wariness of government• Working with other companies• Time
Transforming US Workforce Development Policies for the 21 Century
ETA Technical Assistance• Focused on developing new sector strategies partnerships,
expanding and sustaining existing ones, and overall scaling up effectiveness and impact.
• The first year of the initiative saw a number of accomplishments:– More than 3,000 workforce professionals took part in TA events.– Average positive response rate across all events: over 80%.– 100% of the Capacity Building cohort sites identified making at least
moderate progress over the course of the project. 67% indicated they made "significant Progress."
– 3 Regional Institutes and an innovative Sectors Virtual Institute
ETA Technical Assistance
• Year Two– Capacity Building TA for selected sites– Creation of online skill-building tools organized
around the Sector Strategies Framework and addressing key issues of concern as expressed to us by practitioners in the field.
– The continued building of our National Peer Learning Network,
ETA Technical Assistance
• SAVE THE DATE for the 2016 Virtual Institute: May 16th - 20th– This event is a week-long, interactive virtual meeting
focusing on implementing promising practice models and practical problem solving for Sector Strategies, as well as Career Pathways and Registered Apprenticeship, all within the context of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA).
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WIOA takes concrete and meaningful steps to support the most vulnerable members of the modern workforce, namely the unemployed, the disabled and out of school youth.
-Federal Reserve Bank, Cleveland, Ohio
