Understanding Opportunities and Needs for Talent Development in a Changing Economic Market

1. Understanding Opportunities and Needs for Talent Development in a Changing Economic Market PRESENTED BY Meg Shope Koppel mshopekoppel@pwib.org ~ www.pwib.org

2. Turning Around? Philadelphia City : 2008 – 2012 In 2000, 18.5 percent of Philadelphians were in poverty In 2010, 26.4 percent are in poverty Unemployment at 10.1 percent – December 2011 Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Local Area Unemployment Statistics

3. What was the Great Recession? Billions of Chained Dollars: Real GDP, Bureau of Economic Analysis

4. What About Opportunities to Work?

5. Where We Work is Changing Bureau of Labor Statistics, April 2011

6. Where We Work is Changing Federal & State & Local Government expand through ARRA Bureau of Labor Statistics, April 2011

7. Where We Work is Changing U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

8. How Employers Hire Us is Changing James Borbely: Characteristics of Displaced Workers… Monthly Labor Review, September 2011

9. What We Do is Changing Nurse, RN Clinical Informatics Analyst Full Time, Days Wilmington, DE Job Description & Requirements: Nemours is seeking a Clinical Informatic Analyst - Nursing to join our team in Delaware. As one of the nation's premier pediatric health care systems, we provide world-class clinical care in four states – Delaware, Florida, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In Wilmington, Delaware, the Hospital for Children offers intensive and acute inpatient and outpatient services covering more than 30 pediatric specialties. Ranked among the nation's best in pediatric specialty care by U.S. News & World Report, we care for thousands of children in the Delaware Valley, across the country and around

10. What We Do Is Changing

11. Philadelphia in Crisis

12. Educational Attainment leads to Higher Lifetime Earnings 4 times no diploma More than 2 ½ times no diploma 2 times no diploma Center for Labor Market Studies 2008

13. Prose, Document, and Quantitative Literacy Scores of Adults (16 years of Age and Older) in Philadelphia City, Philadelphia Suburbs, and Pennsylvania (Simulated 2005) U.S. (Actual NAAL 2003) 300 289 288 0.43*standard deviation 0.35*standard deviation 0.35*standard deviation 290 283 281 280 280 275 275 274 271 270 263 260 260 255 250 240 230 Prose Document Quantitative Philadelphiacity Philadelphiasuburbs Pennsylvania U.S. (2003) Simulated Literacy Levels Center for Labor Market Studies, October 2007

14. Center for Labor Market Studies 2007

15. Philadelphia in Crisis: Occupations In Demand Over the Year Change in Major Occupational Family in Philadelphia County: Geographic Solutions Job Spidering Data

16. The Digital Divide “The reality is everyone has to apply for a job online – It’s not intentional but that may screen some people out right there” “In Philadelphia I haven’t had a problem with literacy, because they find out about the survey. I always make sure they’re taking it on the premises without any help. I maybe weeded out people that couldn’t do it. [They say] I just don’t have time for it right now and they don’t come back.”

17. Where Are We Going?

18. Changes in Direction • A Mayor with a Vision • Mayor’s Commission on Literacy empowered • Sector-based training initiatives • A Realigned Workforce System • Literacy services embedded in one stop centers • Educational institutional adjustment

19. Some Tools to help! • Career Coach at the Philadelphia PA CareerLink Centers and off-site available to any job seeker with internet access: http://pwib.emsicareercoach.com/ • Resume Builder available to any job seeker with internet access: http://pwib.emsicareercoach.com/resume/ • Center for Workforce Information & Analysis • PA tool: https://paworkstats.geosolinc.com/ • My Skills / My Future • Federal tool: http://www.myskillsmyfuture.org/

20. Questions? Meg Shope Koppel: mshopekoppel@pwib.org www.pwib.org