1. The High Growth Job Training Initiative AACC Workforce Development Institute January 29, 2004
This presentation provides:
An overview of the vision to create a demand-driven workforce system
An overview of the workforce challenges and the need to transform the system
An introduction to the BRG, its goals, and the federal/state/local team and
Briefing on the Partnerships for Jobs and President’s High-Growth Job Training Initiatives, and Capacity Building project.
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EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

2. Workforce Development = Economic Development
Building and retaining a qualified and productive workforce is essential to enable every U.S. business to be successful, to promote job creation, and to grow our nation’s economy.

3. Top Factors Determining Employer Site Selection*
1. Availability of skilled labor %
2. Labor costs %
3. Tax exemptions %
4. State and local incentives %
5. Highway accessibility %
6. Corporate tax rate %
7. Proximity to major markets 83.7%
8. Occupancy or construction costs 82.4%
9. Energy availability and costs 80.9%
10. Environmental regulations 76.7%
* Area Development Magazine 2002 Survey

4. 21st Century Workforce Challenges
Globalization
Labor Pool Demographics
Increased Diversity
Technology and Innovation Changing the Work
Skill Gaps

5. Create a Demand-Driven No Worker is Left Behind
The Vision
Create a Demand-Driven
System to Ensure
No Worker is Left Behind
Our nation’s ability to be competitive in a global economy depends on the quality of our workforce. To succeed, our policies must embrace the emerging changes in our economy – in how we actually work, where we work, what skills we need, and how we balance our professional and family lives.

6. What is Demand Driven?
Knowing where the jobs are – both new jobs and current jobs that may be changing
Knowing the skills and competencies necessary to do those jobs
Understanding the labor market context
Strategic investment of $15 billion public workforce system resources
Working collaboratively with business and training providers to develop workforce solutions.

7. Framework for Solutions
A Partnership must exist between Employers, Community Colleges and Education providers, and the local Workforce Investment System
The Power of E3 – employment, education, and economic development – is a theme adopted by the Department of Labor. The underlying principle behind this theme is that we must bring the resources devoted to employment, education and economic development together and use them strategically if we are to build the skilled workforce that employers need to remain globally competitive and if workers are going to be able to get good jobs at good wages with opportunities for advancement.
This is integral to creating a demand-driven system.

8. Role of the Partners Industry defines the workforce challenges
Community Colleges assist in developing competency models and curricula
The public workforce system accesses human capital and places trained workers in jobs

9. Why HGJTI?
In the next decade, approximately 80% of available jobs will require some level of post-secondary education*
61% will require more than a high-school education but less than a bachelor’s degree
* Bureau of Labor Statistics & Employment Policy Foundation

10. Why HGJTI? 97% of youth hope to go to college*
63% of youth enroll in college*
30% receive a bachelor’s degree*
*U.S. Dept of Ed./Office of Educational Research and Improvement

11. High-Growth Definition
“High-Growth” includes . . .
Industries with significant job growth
Industries that are critical to the nation’s economic viability and development
Industries that significantly impact the growth of other growth industries
New and emerging industries
The high growth industries have been selected after engaging in rigorous information gathering.
BRG staff use a variety of sources to find this information, including labor market information sites such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics and acinet.org, in addition to information gained from industry and economic development representatives.

12. Targeted Industries Automotive Services Biotechnology Geospatial
Construction
Health Services
Information Technology
High-Tech Manufacturing
Retail
Transportation
Hospitality
Financial Services
Energy
This initiative focuses on high-growth industries where specialized skills training curricula needs to be developed or upgraded to ensure that workers have the right skills for the right jobs at the right time.
Based upon high-growth industry projections, economic development needs, and micro-enterprise efforts, the following sectors are the initial project focus (name industries).
These industries usually fall into two categories:
1. New and emerging industries (for example, geospatial)
2. Industries that are shifting or evolving toward being more high tech (for example, automotive services)

13. High Growth Job Training Initiative
“All the worker wants is to be helped, to be given the skills necessary to realize his or her dreams.  The High-Growth Job Training Initiative in this administration is aiming to do just that.  It's a collaborative effort with community colleges to help team up people with the jobs that are needed, to make sure that the changes in our economy don't leave people behind.”
-  President George W. Bush Labor Day 2003

14. Strategies National leadership to engage industry leaders
Investment in national models and demonstrations of workforce solutions in high growth/high demand industries
Sharing information and models widely with the workforce system

15. New Roles for Workforce System
Catalyst for bringing partners together
Building sustainable relationships
Focus on solutions
Resource leveraging

16. Challenges & Solutions
Competency Models
Post-Secondary Alternatives (Community Colleges, Apprenticeship)
Pipeline
(youth, entry-level)
New Labor Pools (Immigrants, Seniors, Vets, Persons with Disabilities)
Retention (Incumbent Workers)
Transitioning (Declining Industries)

17. Expected Results Putting People Back to Work
Transitioning Workers from Declining Industries to Growing Industries
Meeting Employers’ Needs for Skilled Workers
Leveraging Private Sector Dollars
Driving Change

18. Jobs for the 21st Century
Announced in President’s State of the Union address
$250 million targeted to support training in high growth/high demand industries/occupations through community colleges
Extension of the President’s High Growth Job Training Initiative
Operational Details Not Yet Available

19. Community Colleges Critical Strategic Partners
How can we most effectively ensure that community colleges are at the table and engaged?
What are key capacity issues facing community colleges?
How can we promote collaborative work among community colleges?
How can we promote sharing of HGJTI products (competencies, curriculum, models for clinicals, etc.) among community colleges?

20. The Business Relations Group Contact Information
Gay Gilbert, Director
Business Relations Group
U.S. Department of Labor
Employment and Training Administration
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