EDUCATION/SKILLS TRAINING IS NOT JUST WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

1. EDUCATION/SKILLS TRAINING IS NOT JUST WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

2. EDUCATION and SKILLS TRAINING DRIVETHE ECONOMY

3. Nationally: Unemployment rate has doubled to 9.8%, 15.1 million people unemployed WA State: 9.3%, 330,800 unemployed people. That’s up from 193,900 unemployed state residents just a year ago.

4. TALENT SHORTAGE REMAINS DESPITE GLOBAL RECESSION

5. GLOBAL SHORTAGE Top Ten Jobs • Skilled Trades • Sales Representatives • Technicians (primarily production/operations, engineering, or maintenance • Engineers • Management/Executives • Accounting and Finance staff • Laborers • Production Operators • Administrative Assistants, Office Support Staff • Drivers Source: Manpower 2009 Survey Results

6. AMERICAN SHORTAGE Top Ten Jobs: • Technicians (Primarily production/operations, engineering or maintenance) • Production Operators • Accounting and Finance Staff • Laborers • Engineers • Sales Representatives • Management/Executives • Sales Managers • Skilled Trades • Administrative Assistants and Office Support • Source: Manpower 2009 Survey Results

7. GOOD JOBS WILL STAY WHERE THE SKILLED WORKERS ARE

8. GOOD JOBS WILL GO WHERE THE SKILLED WORKERS ARE

9. FACING THE PRESENT

10. Almost a decade into the 21st century, we are facing a choice

11. Option 1: Invest in basic education and skills training of our workforce and remain competitive in today’s global economy Option 2: Continue to overlook glaring evidence of a national crisis and move further down the path to decline

12. SHORTAGE OF EDUCATED WORKERS Shortage of 14 million post-secondary educated workers by 2020

13. WHY? • No growth of native born workforce ages 25-54 • Shrinkage of our workforce between ages of 30-49 by 3.5 million by 2015 • 80% of all new jobs created today require some form of post-secondary education/training BUT only 52% of Americans have achieved this level today

14. AMERICA IS LOSING ITS PLACE AS A WORLD LEADER IN EDUCATION AND IS BECOMING LESS EDUCATED

15. LOSING GROUND IN POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION TOO • U.S. had the smallest decade long increase in the share of young adults enrolled in post-secondary education • Workers 25 years and older with some post-secondary education • 20 years ago, 19% of our workforce • Next 20 years, there will only be 4%

16. OUR PIPELINE IS NOT PREPARED

17. SKILLS AND ABILITIES NEEDED IN THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY

18. CONCEPT OF LIFETIME EMPLOYMENT REPLACED BY LIFETIME EMPLOYABILITY • Basic skills; reading, writing, mathematics • Foundation; knowing how to learn • Communications: listening and oral communications • Adaptability; creative thinking and problem solving • Applied skills; occupational and professional competencies • Group effectiveness; interpersonal skills, negotiation, and working collaboratively within a team environment • Influence; organizational effectiveness and leadership qualities • Personal Management; self esteem and self motivation • Attitude; positive cognitive style

19. WHERE THE JOBS ARE! Middle skill jobs = those that require more than a high school diploma, but less than a four-year degree Through 2017 WA residents will have access to nearly 470,000 middle skill openings

20. BY 2014 MIDDLE SKILL JOBSPROJECTED TO GROW • Computer specialist jobs will average 20 % growth and generate 1 million job openings • Support Specialist WA State Median Wage $46,300 • Specialists, other $79,800 • Healthcare jobs will vary from 20 to 40 % with more than 1.5 million jobs • Dental Hygienist $91,200 • Radiologic Technician $60,100 • Respiratory Therapist $57,900 • Registered Nurse $70,800 • Medical Lab Technician $36,800

21. BY 2014 MIDDLE SKILL JOBSPROJECTED TO GROW • Construction trades is expected to grow by 10 to 15 % and provide 4.6 million jobs • Carpenter $46,500 • Electrician $56,400 • Painter $33,000 • Operating Engineer $53,500 • Plumber $52,700 • Transportation, 12 to 14% • Transit bus driver $43,100 • Heavy truck driver $40,500

22. BY 2014 MIDDLE SKILL JOBSPROJECTED TO GROW • Installation, Maintenance and Repair, 12 to19% • Aircraft Mechanic $56,700 • Auto Mechanic $40,800 • Heavy Equipment Mechanic $51,000 • Industrial Machinery $50,500 • Others • Claims Adjuster $56,000 • Legal Secretary $41,200 • Paralegal $46,400

23. PIECE OF PROSPERITY PIE AWAITS ALL OF US

24. MUCH WORK REMAINS • Work remains to be done in elementary, middle, and high schools to prepare all of our youth for success • Sound the alarm and increase awareness of achievement gaps • Increase emphasis on skills and abilities needed in a knowledge economy • Open the eyes of our young adults – to see all of the educational and training options that will lead to sustainable family wage jobs with career advancement opportunities

25. RESOURCES FOR YOU • Apprenticeshipswww.lni.wa.gov/tradeslicensing/apprenticeship • Labor Market Informationwww.workforceexplorer.com • Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board (High Skills, High Wages Report; Career Guidance tool)www.wtb.wa.gov • O*NET (Occupations Information) http://online.onetcenter.org/ • U.S. Department of Labor www.doleta.gov

26. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMITMENT!