1. Identify the needs of business - we needed to come up with a system to better coordinate and look forward to what businesses need now and in future. Sat downt w gwb and obr...how can we do this. Come up with a list of jobs that employers said they needed. We knew we needed to ask busines. Over next 1 3 5 years, where will you have biggest challenged. Used JobsOhio 9 clusters - adv mfg, plymer, biohealth, we looked and identified top 200 employers by cluster (nearly 2000 companies.) This was the first data element in the list.
One of best way to predict is look at the past. Look at Ohio Means Jobs.com. Looked at job postings for last 4 years (2nd data element)
3rd data element - through bls. Job elements.
Came up with list of 196 occupations in demand around state.
Can go to ohiomeansjobs.com. Can slice and dice the data.
When you look at this list, there's nothing shocking to you. These are the jobs companies have always been having difficulty.
2. Job Training and education alignment
Now that we've identified demand, started looking at supply. What are K12 producing, esp. in career tech. Comm colleges. Univ. We're not complete in this. Schools aren't used to provide this information. Not done at the career level. Reprot the data differently. Board of Regents going trhough higher education inventor. How adult world reports to BoR. We want to get a better understanding of supply. We'll have more over the next couple of months.
Other areas - when a person becomes laid off and visits an OMJ Center. Could want cosmotology cert. Get it. Very me focused. Have access to training dollars. 80% of people being trained have to be in one of 196 professions.
Assessments - ask them a series of question to figure out what their interests are - in demand jobs at top that fit their interests. Trying to make it easier for people.
Another exmaple - in process of phasing out OGT. The way a traditional student when they earn the right amount of credit. Not the way for every student. We have 24,000 kids dropping out every year. How can we motivate them to stay in school.
196 - 96% require at least a high school diploma. If student receives credits and a industry-recognized credential and assessment - can graduate. Directed DOE to map where there are industry-recognized credentials with those 196.
Another way - Industry Workforce Alliances - business-led dialuge to address specific in-demand jobs and career pathways (2) brings together business, education, and training, and other stakeholders (3) develop innovative solutions to address short and long-term needs. Hopefully we can apply these best practices around the state. Asked for seed funding for six of these throughout the state. Northwest Ohio - (Sept) Allen Economic Development Group. Develop an Advanced Manufacturing PathwaySystem.
3. Workforce delivery system reform
3rd bucket we've been focusing on. We talked a lot about 90 programs across 13 agencies. If we could simplify that. Spun our wheels trying to figure out how to make bigger buckets. Ended up with 80/20 rule. 80% of time with 20% of programs. Then 3 programs touched a lot of folks to make a differnece:
3.1 WIA - Job Placement & Career Services
3.2 Adult & Basic Literacy Education - Adult Learning & GED Prep
Carl D. Perkins
Legislature - put something in MBR - requires "us" to develop unitifed plan (1 plan to send to federal gov). Only 4th stae to submit unified plan, first state to include Carl Perkind.
State Unified Plan PRocess. Brought together local provider for each program from throughout the state for a series of meetings. Asked them what reforms were needed.
For customers: (1) easy and improved access to services..
10 reforms (boiled it down
Statewide policies and practies - 1. require OMJ.com registration. 2. common in-take application. 3. common case management system. 4. common metrics. 5. common assessment strategy (use state purchasing power)
Increased Awareness of Workforce Programs - 1. Increase access to job readiness/soft skills training. 2. increase acces to career counseling 3. increase access to remdiation and high school equivalency
Local planning and collaboration 1 local unified plan 2. co-enrollment
Release 220 some pages draft report - October 21
November - regional public hearings
November 13 - Terra Community College (Napoleon)
Nov. 19 public coment period closes
Dec. 31 final plan submited to US DOE ad US DOL
Workforce Success Measures
Initially focus ona few programs. WIA, Carl Perkins, and ABLE. Then we did decide to add to it BOR schoarlships and ODH loan forgiveness
Measures - skills gains (did they actually see a skill gain..for ABLE did they get GED...for college did they get a degree). 2 Entered employment. 3. average wages. 4. business engagement (are we nmeeting the needs of employers. The percentage of program competeres who are still employed with the same empbloyer in the4th quarter taht were also employed uring the 2nd quarter after completion.
Did receive some initial data back. BEtween 50 to 75% are astill with that company. Highest cohort - discloacted workers.
Hope to launche beofre end of year. Dashboard. For policy makers - another tool int he tool box.
E1888 385 Employer Center - Business Support Center ... can send resumes
Veterans - rise to the top
OhioMeansJobs.com K-12 Students
Resume writer geared to kids. Kid-friendly questions. 200 schools (2000 kids) registered as their career advisor.
Business. Educators. Adult Learner. Career Technical Program.
614.466.4208
dawn.larzelere@governor.ohio.gov
Jerry - met with every supreintendent. Straight A grant. Really seeing progress in that. Spent time at OMJ Paulding County. 8 people workign on different thigns. Looking for jobs. Enjoy new website. Need to get messag eout to employers.