Workforce Innovation and Job Creation in Gainesville, FLSmall town – Five Business Incubators

Angela Pate – Executive Director• President and CEO of Focused Management

Solutions, Inc.

Excellence by Design, Execution and Delivery

Focused Management Solutions is a management and staffing firm that provides expert services with proven results in business growth through a strong focus on human services and workforce development.

Business intelligence and efficiencies to complex government processes and highly regulated industries.

Certified, and experienced in providing quality, performance and operational expertise and strengthening service delivery systems.

Strong oversight to meet benchmarks and successfully achieve measurable goals.

Workforce Investment Business Services

Gainesville Chamber Contracted to Serve EmployersLocal Wage Information, Knowledge of Available TalentPost Jobs, Prescreen, Job Fairs, RecruitingEducate Regarding Bonding , tax incentives, etc.Capture Hire Data, Develop Career Ladders Within FirmsConvey Business Needs to Educators, Government & those servingspecific populations

US Chamber Region of Excellence

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1. $ 500,000 Youth training grant – enroll/train 350 kids

Provide 300 iPads to youth at risk of dropping - "Tech Quest"

2. $ 500,000 WINGS Grant$226,665 to train 204 people in green technologies

78 employed received skills upgrades - 126 unemployed received training 13 unemployed hired

3. $ 500,000 Healthcare training grant$242,000 to train 300 people – placements over 50%

4. $1 Million – YouthBuild Grant – train dropouts for GEDs

2011-12 $5 Million

1. Technology, Healthcare & BioScience

2. On the Job Training Salary for up to 6 months

1-10 employees up to 90%2-50 up to 75%> 50 up to 50%

3. Class room training

3. Focus on Employers that will create the most jobs

Local Strategic Plan for Workforce DevelopmentTalent Development: People Part of Economic Development

Business is considered the customer; Jobseeker is the resource that MUST be developed for the customer.

1. Entrepreneurship & Self Employment for all populations

2. ‘Earn & Learn’ in all industries3. Soft Skills Training4. Institute for Workforce Innovation5. Policy Change

Startup Quest

Why Entrepreneurship & Self Employment ?

Old Jobs Not Returning

Self-Employment – reality

2008, Out of the 29.6 million US businesses *

73% or 21.7 millionhad no employees.

87% or 25.7 million have 5 employees or fewer

Entrepreneurial Cultures have higher than averageeconomic growth**

*Source: US SBA - http://www.sba.gov/advo/stats/sbfaq.pdf** Source - THINK ENTREPRENEURS: A Call to Action (The Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education)

Integrating Entrepreneurship Into the Public Workforce System Throughout America

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Entrepreneurial Training

Startup Quest

Unemployed Professionals

Tech Quest

Youth at Highest Risk of Dropout

Opportunity Quest

Welfare Recipients

Startup Quest

• 13 teams formed during program• 83 professionals trained

•70 earned certificates

TO DATE:• Four teams pursuing licensing• One licensed and incorporated• 13 employed during program• 14 working in their own company

Startup Quest

90.48% have retested

73.68% increase in either reading or math or both

10.5% neither an increase nor decrease

7.89% decrease in both reading and math

7.89% decrease in either math or reading

Opportunity Quest

Trained Welfare Recipients in Skills forSelf-Employment

Training included basic concepts of

Financial Literacy

Self Branding, Self Esteem and Self Marketing

Customer Service – pleasing your customer

Support Services to assist

65 participated in training, only 24 completed

Of those 1/3 exited Welfare due to earnings to date

Education

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Education Short term Certificate training from 1 week to 3 months created by Santa Fe Community College from our Board’s request

Recently created a 15 hour Entrepreneurship Certification to be complete in one semester.

Certified Solar

Contractor

Entry Level Energy

Auditor

Advanced Energy

Auditor

Basic Recruit Law

Enforcement

Solar Hot Water

Technician

Biomedical Equipment

Engineering Technician

Web Specialist Air Conditioning,

Refrigeration and Heating

Service Technician

Solar PV Installation

Technician

Business Specialist Legal Office

Management

Licensed Practical Nurse

Network Specialist Business Operations -

Accounting

Medical Record

Transcriptionist

Crew Chief

Basic Healthcare

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Surgical Technologist Radiologic

Technologist Assistant

Business Operations - Human

Resources

Medical Manager Office Specialist Medical Information

Coder/Biller

Applied Welding

Technologies - Pipe Welder

Accounting Software Health Informatics Patient Care Assistant Central Supply and

Distribution Technician

MS Office Applications Certified Nursing

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Workforce Development

Almost 600 Workforce Investment Boards nationally

Over 13,000 Business Leaders on those boards

Over 9 million served in the past year

Over 4.5 million people placed in jobs

Workforce Investment SolutionsEntrepreneurship training and mentoring

Those who will only be self-employed & self-sufficient

Those with potential for investment to create startups

Those newer second stage firms with around 10 employeesthat will create the most jobs the fastest

Apprenticeships in all industries for earn and learn toprovide higher education for those needing to work.

Short Time Compensation – Layoff Aversion(German Work Sharing)

Hiring and tax credits focused on startups (for hiringunemployed) where hiring would NOT have been possibleotherwise

UC – stop extensions and provide to employers to payunemployed to come work

Data Quality

Accountability needed in Workforce Development as in Education