Winning Through Skills: The Power of Work-Ready Communities

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Cenla Work Ready Network 2012 Summit February 16, 2012 Larry Good Corporation for a Skilled Workforce [email protected]

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Cenla Work Ready Network 2012 Summit

February 16, 2012 Larry Good

Corporation for a Skilled Workforce [email protected]

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Enormity of the skills gap

The stakes – economic prosperity

Why being a Work-Ready Community matters

What results can you achieve?

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Skills are central in 21st Century global economy

Lumina Foundation Goal: 60% with 2-yr degree +

Today’s reality: Leading competitor nations: 50% now and increasing U.S. nationwide: 39% and holding Louisiana: 27%

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Data is clear: those with credential beyond high

school are doing much better than those without

Employers across many industries competing based on skills – and facing skill shortages today

Core part of economic development strategy

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Committed to increasing skills attainment

Sets baseline skills metrics and uses them

Focuses on industry-defined skill needs

Brings together employers and educators

Communicates work-readiness as economic development message

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Georgia originated

Several other states/regions built own versions

ACT national Certified Work Ready Communities initiative just launched

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National Career Readiness Certificate

Educational Attainment Levels

ACT Job Profiling

Industry Sector Partnerships

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Based on WorkKeys assessment scores in: Applied Math Reading for Information Locating Information

Being used in 40+ states

Evidence-based credential

Reliable predictor of workplace success

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High School graduation rates

Post-secondary degrees

Industry-valued certificates

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Articulating the skills needed in specific jobs

ACT’s inventory broad & deep across industries and occupations

Provides a key part of common language

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Bringing together employers within an industry in a region with education & workforce development to: Identify talent issues/needs Craft solutions

More than 1,000 partnerships nationally

A model that works – for employers, workers

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Understand and express clearly skill needs Job Profiling Sector Partnerships

Gauge job applicants’ competencies

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The ability to credibly promote the region as

a site for employers to grow in based on skills

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Increasing educational attainment

Forging meaningful partnership with

employers

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None of us can solve the skills gap alone Work-Ready Communities can be a unifying

idea that meaningfully links: ◦ Employers ◦ Educators ◦ Workforce Agencies ◦ Economic Developers

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Georgia as biggest example so far: 250,000 Work Ready Certificates 19% earned Gold-level Certificates (ready for

90% of jobs) 205 Employers Completed Job Profiles 80% of Georgia high school students

graduated in 2010

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Mutually committing to make Cenla a region that:

Leads in closing the skills gap Creates a clear understanding about skills

employers need and those job seekers have Integrates across silos to achieve these ends

Cenla has opportunity to become a globally

competitive place – based on skills