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Utilizing the Business Relations Group Partnerships Jennifer W. Troke

e 3. Utilizing the Business Relations Group Partnerships Jennifer W. Troke. EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. eta. Our Goals Today. Overview of the Business Relations Group (BRG) Two Major Initiatives High Growth Job Training Initiative

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Utilizing the Business Relations Group Partnerships Jennifer W. Troke

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  1. e3 Utilizing the Business Relations Group PartnershipsJennifer W. Troke EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR eta

  2. Our Goals Today • Overview of the Business Relations Group (BRG) Two Major Initiatives • High Growth Job Training Initiative • Partnerships for Jobs • BRG’s Work with Disability Community at a National and State Level • Explore Specific Strategies for Connecting Employers and Navigators

  3. The Vision Create a Demand-Driven Workforce System to Ensure No Worker is Left Behind

  4. What is Demand Driven? • Knowing where the jobs are – both new jobs and current jobs that may be changing • Knowing the skills and competencies necessary to do those jobs • Understanding the labor market context • Strategic investment of $15 billion public workforce system resources • Working collaboratively with business and training providers to develop workforce solutions

  5. Framework for Solutions A Partnership must exist between Businesses, Education and Training Providers, and the Workforce Investment System

  6. High Growth Process • Information Gathering • Environmental Scan • Executive Forums • Workforce Development Forums • Strategic Development Teams • Research & Analysis • Implementation

  7. Targeted Industries

  8. Strategies • National leadership to engage industry leaders • Investment in national models and demonstrations of workforce solutions in high growth/high demand industries • Sharing information and models widely with the workforce system

  9. New Roles for Workforce System • Catalyst for bringing partners together • Building sustainable relationships • Focus on solutions • Resource leveraging

  10. Challenges & Solutions Post-SecondaryAlternatives Training(Community Colleges,Apprenticeship) Pipeline (youth,entry-level) CompetencyModels Retention(Incumbent Workers) New LaborPools(Immigrants, Older Workers, Veterans, Persons with Disabilities) Transitioning(Declining Industries)

  11. High Growth Job Training Initiative Grants • 65 Grants • $119 Million* * As of October 27, 2004

  12. Partnerships for JobsInitiative Brokering the connection of large, national-in-scope businesses to public workforce system

  13. Partnerships for Jobs • Approximately 18 currently active partnerships • Moving to more uniform and streamlined approach with partners • Recent focus on rapid response and special populations

  14. Twenty-three Current and Continuing National Business Partners Partnerships for Jobs

  15. Partnerships for Jobs Benefits Find the right workers, with the right skills, for the right job, at the right time! • Access to qualified workers • Reduction of recruiting costs • Increased retention • Improved diversity • Good corporate citizenship • Support during downsizing/rightsizing

  16. Partnerships for Jobs Implementation Strategies Implementation Strategies • Targeted regional/local meetings • Web site: www.nbpjobs.org • Workforce system education for HR staff • Local models for replication

  17. Intersections with Disability Community • Interagency Workgroup • What Employers Are Saying • ANCOR • Connections to the Public Workforce System

  18. Interagency Workgroup – Employers Weigh In • Make the ‘business case’ for hiring people with disabilities • Integrate information at the federal level to provide tools, resources, and promising practices • Conduct an awareness campaign around hiring individuals with disabilities • Help employers access and recruit individuals with disabilities • Ensure persons with disabilities understand the pathway to employers

  19. ANCOR • American Network of Community Options and Resources • Partnership to Recruit, Train, and Hire Direct Support Specialists who Serve Disabled Population • Four Pilot Sites - Arizona, Kentucky, Maine, and New York

  20. Connections to the Public Workforce System • BRG State Coordinators • Promote your work! • Connect to larger partnership events and rollouts with BRG National Business Partners • Build on Other Navigators’ Success • Create specific goals around your work with employers for hiring and unemployment rates

  21. Specific Connections & Strategies • Become a member of your One-Stops business services team! • Stay connected to your BRG state coordinator • Become a catalyst for change

  22. Business Relations Group & Office of Workforce Investment We look forward to working together to build a strong and productive workforce for the 21st Century businessrelations@dol.gov (202) 693-3949

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