Workforce Development Vic Rodgers Associate Provost Workforce Development

Workforce Development Vic Rodgers Associate Provost, Workforce Development Harrisburg Area Community College 1

The Core Components of Workforce Development • • • The State plan Funding sources Training providers Participants Partners, including non-profits Business 2

What is “workforce development? ” Workforce development is just creative problem solving and spans the entirety of our communities. Some of the areas it addresses are: • How to help our elementary and middle schools interact with the career options in their areas 3

What is workforce development? continued • How to work with the high schools to ensure graduates are “college and career ready” by: – Working to tie them into internship opportunities – Working with the CTC’s to create an articulated pathway to industry credentials and post-secondary education – Broadening the training base for many area schools who do not have access to vocational/occupational training – Providing resources (through the Work. Keys program) for schools who are under resourced 4

What is workforce development? continued • Working with the chronically unemployed or underemployed to provide them both essential skills and skilled training and helping connect them to existing employment opportunities • Working with employers to assess their skills gaps and giving them the solutions to address not only their current needs, but filling their pipelines for the future 5

What is workforce development? continued • Working with economic development leadership in partnership to retain/attract businesses • The relevance for workforce development is that it is key to an economic developer’s efforts within a community. A strong partnership means a constant working relationship to find solutions and to integrate opportunities for both the community at large and the businesses which reside within those communities 6

Understanding Occupational Data • You can of course use this to focus your efforts for recruitment and to decide on where resources should be spent • It also can help you assess trends as it relates to demographics – especially age • EMSI data 7

The Work. Keys System • Over 20 years of R&D • Validated by EEOC's 1978 Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures • Most advanced measure of workplace skills 8

The Work. Keys System Utilizes three components: üJob Analysis üAssessment üTraining 9

Job Analysis • Uses observed and statistical data to categorize over 20, 000 occupations • These categories are divided into one of four sections üBronze üSilver üGold üPlatinum • Numerically, these are categorized as 3, 4, 5 & 6 10

Example Occupations for CRC Holders 11

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NCRCs Issued Nation Wide • Leading States: ‒ http: //workreadycommunities. org/SC ‒ http: //workreadycommunities. org/NC ‒ http: //workreadycommunities. org/GA 13

Utilization & Results • Work. Keys - Mid American Energy – Des Moines, IA – Using Work. Keys as an effective, validated, pre-employment assessment tool for entrylevel skilled positions – Overall turnover for meter readers has dropped 83% 14

Utilization & Results • Work. Keys - Bradner Village – Health Care Center in Marion, Indiana – Used Work. Keys provided by local One Stops – Reduced training cost by 96% – Reduced turnover by 37% – Saved 75% of time previously spent in applicant screening 15

Recruitment and Retention • Some key points: – With the low unemployment numbers, those who have the skills are already working – The normal demographics which have been the core workforce has shifted; new strategies are required to attract a different workforce – WEDnet is available – http: //www. wednetpa. com/pubs/WEDnet. PAAnnual. Report. pdf 16

The Role of Higher Ed • Community Colleges: – Career and technical training – Act as a partner for workforce development initiatives – Create a pathway for articulated career clusters – Provide innovative solutions for business – Provide a less expensive start to a 4 -year degree 17

New Initiatives • S. T. E. P – Set goals – Take action – Expect results – Put in the work Harrisburg/York/High Schools 52% are employed https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=J 0 Qutsb 1 Rh 8 18

New Initiatives Continued • Harrisburg Promise • HHA, The Mayors Office of Harrisburg, Steelton Highspire 19

New Initiatives Continued • Apprenticeship Programs – The Industrial Manufacturing Apprenticeship • Developed to meet manufacturing firms’ needs to upgrade the skills of the frontline production workers • Registered Apprenticeship program providing production workers necessary skills for the advanced manufacturing environment • Upskill current workforce or enroll new hires 20

New Initiatives Continued • • Hospitality Apprenticeship Cybersecurity Apprenticeship Medical Apprenticeships Working with local high schools – developing pre-Apprenticeship/STEP/Apprenticeship pathways with 8 school districts this year 21

SUMMARY • I hope this has given you a better understanding of workforce development and how it ties into economic development at several levels. Regional and local economic development needs to be an active partner in the workforce initiatives within their scope of responsibility because the workforce is becoming a prime driver of business and industry. V. Rodgers 717 -221 -1361 vrodgers@hacc. edu 22