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Work Ready & Go Build Georgia

The Governor's Office of Workforce Development in Georgia administers the Work Ready program, which aims to assess and improve the state's workforce. This includes offering assessments to unemployed individuals, encouraging high school graduation rates, and increasing post-secondary education options. The program also focuses on certified Work Ready communities, which receive grant allocations and support. The biggest areas of success include high school graduation rates, while engaging the private sector and the community are noted as areas of difficulty. Work Ready regions have seen success in improving graduation rates and engaging key community leadership, but face challenges in setting goals and benchmarks for progress.

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Work Ready & Go Build Georgia

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  1. Governor’s Office of Workforce Development Two Martin Luther King Jr. Drive 1104 West Tower Atlanta, Georgia 30334 Work Ready & Go Build Georgia Georgia Work Ready Symposium February 16, 2012 Governor Nathan Deal Executive Director Tricia Pridemore

  2. Governor’s Office of Workforce Development Two Martin Luther King Jr. Drive 1104 West Tower Atlanta, Georgia 30334 Georgia Work Ready • The Governor’s Office of Workforce Development administers the Georgia Work Ready program. Geared only to assessing a benchmark for unemployed Georgians and counties interested in encouraging a stronger workforce through improving high school graduation rates and increasing the number of students choosing post-secondary education options. • Changes to federal requirements for WIA have demanded action to preserve the program. • Exhaustive effort to steer program benefits to those most • most in need. • Five years of assessing Georgia’s workforce lead to development action. Governor Nathan Deal Executive Director Tricia Pridemore

  3. Governor’s Office of Workforce Development Two Martin Luther King Jr. Drive 1104 West Tower Atlanta, Georgia 30334 Work Ready Assessments The Work Ready assessment will now be offered only to unemployed individuals or individuals looking to apply for a job listed on workreadyconnect.org. The Governor’s Office of Workforce Development makes workreadyconnect.org available free of charge to individuals and companies that recognize Work Ready as part of their hiring process. Thank you for the strategic advisement from Georgia’s business community and TCSG stakeholders. Governor Nathan Deal Executive Director Tricia Pridemore

  4. Governor’s Office of Workforce Development Two Martin Luther King Jr. Drive 1104 West Tower Atlanta, Georgia 30334 Certified Work Ready Communities • Improve high school graduation rate • Encourage students to participate in post-secondary education • Discourage secondary education absenteeism • Changes effective February 1, 2012 • - Already Certified Work Ready Communities continue with grant allocations awarded, including: financial grants, road signs, local Chamber of Commerce memberships • - Counties NOT Work Ready Certified as of 2/1/12 are eligible to become a CWRC using the three metrics above. Upon achievement, county can receive: road signs and Chamber of Commerce memberships • - Grant packets arrive to team leaders week of 1/30/12 Governor Nathan Deal Executive Director Tricia Pridemore

  5. Governor’s Office of Workforce Development Two Martin Luther King Jr. Drive 1104 West Tower Atlanta, Georgia 30334 Certified Work Ready Communities Governor Nathan Deal Executive Director Tricia Pridemore

  6. Governor’s Office of Workforce Development Two Martin Luther King Jr. Drive 1104 West Tower Atlanta, Georgia 30334 Georgia Work Ready Performance Survey Results Governor Nathan Deal Executive Director Tricia Pridemore

  7. Governor’s Office of Workforce Development Two Martin Luther King Jr. Drive 1104 West Tower Atlanta, Georgia 30334 Work Ready Communities • Biggest Area of Success • High School Graduation Rates • -82% of respondents noted this was their greatest success • “…it gave us real measurable data to give to the employers about the students who were graduating. Also, by having focus on our high school graduation rates, we as a community we able to put programs in place to increase our graduation rate.” Governor Nathan Deal Executive Director Tricia Pridemore

  8. Governor’s Office of Workforce Development Two Martin Luther King Jr. Drive 1104 West Tower Atlanta, Georgia 30334 Work Ready Communities • Biggest Areas of Difficulty • Engaging the Private Sector (32% of all respondents) • Engaging the Community (18% of all respondents) • Communication with GOWD (13% of all respondents) Governor Nathan Deal Executive Director Tricia Pridemore

  9. Governor’s Office of Workforce Development Two Martin Luther King Jr. Drive 1104 West Tower Atlanta, Georgia 30334 Work Ready Regions • Biggest Areas of Success • High School Graduation Rates • Engagement of Key Community Leadership “Each county shared and asked for help from the other counties. A separate Education Committee developed the Biotechnology curriculum which was accepted by the DOE. Now over 24 schools are teaching the biotechnology career pathway with over 2500 students enrolled. A separate group, the IC Regional Partnership, consisted of the 13 Chambers of Commerce and economic development entities, which ultimately formed a 501c3 organization to continue to market the IC globally.” Governor Nathan Deal Executive Director Tricia Pridemore

  10. Governor’s Office of Workforce Development Two Martin Luther King Jr. Drive 1104 West Tower Atlanta, Georgia 30334 Work Ready Regions • Biggest Areas of Difficulty • Goals/ Benchmarks • Engaging the private sector Governor Nathan Deal Executive Director Tricia Pridemore

  11. Governor’s Office of Workforce Development Two Martin Luther King Jr. Drive 1104 West Tower Atlanta, Georgia 30334 What Challenges Do We Face? • America’s highly skilled industrial workers are aging, and there are not enough young people entering the industry to replace our retiring workforce. • Unless something is done, Georgia and the nation will face severe problems in building the future. • Needs in manufacturing, telecommunications, transportation, energy and industrial construction. Governor Nathan Deal Executive Director Tricia Pridemore

  12. Governor’s Office of Workforce Development Two Martin Luther King Jr. Drive 1104 West Tower Atlanta, Georgia 30334 Georgia’s Job Projections for the Skilled Trades • Estimated 16,500 skilled trade career opportunities to become available over the next year • Predicted 82,000 jobs to open by 2016 • By 2016 the following job openings projected: • 12,778 Truck Drivers, heavy and tractor trailer • 4,906 Construction Laborers • 2,824 Electricians • 2,050 Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers Governor Nathan Deal Executive Director Tricia Pridemore

  13. Governor’s Office of Workforce Development Two Martin Luther King Jr. Drive 1104 West Tower Atlanta, Georgia 30334 Bringing Go Build™ to Georgia Governor Nathan Deal Executive Director Tricia Pridemore

  14. Governor’s Office of Workforce Development Two Martin Luther King Jr. Drive 1104 West Tower Atlanta, Georgia 30334 Objective of Go Build™ Georgia • Through the Governor’s Office of Workforce Development, Go Build Georgia will build a broad coalition of key stakeholder groups to address the availability of craft labor professionals in Georgia over the next generation. • To design and develop a comprehensive recruitment initiative that would have statewide focus to attract new workers into the craft labor careers. • Link unemployed Georgians, students and parents with business stakeholders, secondary counselors, educators and post-secondary education options. • Strong partnership with the Technical College System of Georgia Governor Nathan Deal Executive Director Tricia Pridemore

  15. Governor’s Office of Workforce Development Two Martin Luther King Jr. Drive 1104 West Tower Atlanta, Georgia 30334 Mike Rowe and MikeRoweWORKS • In addition to being a household face and name through his work as the executive producer and host of “Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe,” he is also a huge champion of the importance of skilled labor to America’s future. • Through mikeroweWORKS.com and The mikeroweWORKS Foundation, Rowe works to drive national dialogue about the need for skilled tradesmen to build and maintain our nation’s infrastructure. • We look forward to working with Mike to recruit a new generation of tradesmen in Georgia who will build our future. Governor Nathan Deal Executive Director Tricia Pridemore

  16. Governor’s Office of Workforce Development Two Martin Luther King Jr. Drive 1104 West Tower Atlanta, Georgia 30334 Positive Changes within Professional Licensing Boards Division • Secretary of State Brian Kemp announced a plan to streamline the operations at his agency’s Professional Licensing Boards Division (PLB) through more efficient procedures in license application review and code enforcement. • The changes will help the state’s next generation of skilled trade professionals obtain licensure sooner so they can start a job or start a business faster which is very important to the success of Go Build Georgia. Governor Nathan Deal Executive Director Tricia Pridemore

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