Using the Business Relations Bunch Organizations Jennifer W. Troke

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e 3 Utilizing the Business Relations Group Partnerships Jennifer W. Troke EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR estimated time of arrival

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

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

What is Demand Driven? Knowing where the employments are – both new occupations and ebb and flow occupations that might change Knowing the abilities and capabilities important to carry out those occupations Understanding the work showcase setting Strategic venture of $15 billion open workforce framework assets Working cooperatively with business and preparing suppliers to create workforce arrangements

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

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

Targeted Industries

Strategies National authority to draw in industry pioneers Investment in national models and exhibits of workforce arrangements in high development/popularity enterprises Sharing data and models generally with the workforce framework

New Roles for Workforce System Catalyst for uniting accomplices Building economical connections Focus on arrangements Resource utilizing

Challenges & Solutions Post-Secondary Alternatives Training (Community Colleges, Apprenticeship) Pipeline (youth, section level) Competency Models Retention (Incumbent Workers) New Labor Pools (Immigrants, Older Workers, Veterans, Persons with Disabilities) Transitioning (Declining Industries)

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

Partnerships for Jobs Initiative Brokering the association of expansive, national-in-degree organizations to open workforce framework

Partnerships for Jobs Approximately 18 as of now dynamic organizations Moving to more uniform and streamlined approach with accomplices Recent concentrate on fast reaction and extraordinary populaces

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

Partnerships for Jobs Benefits Find the right specialists, with the right aptitudes, for the right occupation, at the opportune time! Access to qualified laborers Reduction of selecting costs Increased maintenance Improved differing qualities Good corporate citizenship Support amid scaling down/rightsizing

Partnerships for Jobs Implementation Strategies Implementation Strategies Targeted local/neighborhood gatherings Web webpage: www.nbpjobs.org Workforce framework instruction for HR staff Local models for replication

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

Interagency Workgroup – Employers Weigh In Make the 'business case' for enlisting individuals with handicaps Integrate data at the government level to give apparatuses, assets, and promising practices Conduct a mindfulness crusade around contracting people with inabilities Help managers get to and enroll people with incapacities Ensure people with incapacities comprehend the pathway to bosses

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

Connections to the Public Workforce System BRG State Coordinators Promote your work! Interface with bigger association occasions and rollouts with BRG National Business Partners Build on Other Navigators' Success Create particular objectives around your work with bosses for employing and unemployment rates

Specific Connections & Strategies Become an individual from your One-Stops business administrations group! Remain associated with your BRG state organizer Become an impetus for change

Business Relations Group & Office of Workforce Investment We anticipate cooperating to manufacture a solid and profitable workforce for the 21st Century businessrelations@dol.gov (202) 693-3949