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Building A Skilled Workforce
Pennsylvania’s Workforce Development System
• 22 Workforce Investment Boards
• 69 Pennsylvania PA CareerLinks
• 72 Industry Partnerships
Advancing Innovation Through
Collaborations
Employees/
Job Seeker
Research
Partners
Public Sector
PA’S INDUSTRY
LED
WORKFORCE
STRATEGY
Workforce
Training
Education:
CC,
CTE, Universities
etc.
Business
Networks
Private Sector
Companies
PA Sector Initiative
• Building the case
– Two years of meetings and retreats
– Legislative Briefings
• Using Workforce Information - CWIA
• Money as incentive
– Discretionary funds
– Job Ready PA
Four Critical Strategies
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Strengthen current industries
Increase opportunities for residents
Prepare youth for future careers
Implement accountability standards
High Priority Occupations
Goal: Effectively target education and training
dollars to best sustain Pennsylvania’s economy.
What they are: Job categories that are in demand by
employers, require advanced skills and provide
family-sustaining wages.
Who’s Impacted: All recipients of public workforce
investment dollars.
Pennsylvania’s Targeted Industry Clusters
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Advanced Materials &
Diversified Manufacturing
 Chemicals, Rubber &
Plastics
 Electronics
 Metals & Metal Fabrication
 Printing
 Vehicle & Vehicle
Equipment
 Agriculture & Food Production
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Food Processing
 Building & Construction
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Business & Financial Services
Education
Information & Communication
Services
Life Sciences
 Bio-Medical
 Health Care
Logistics & Transportation
Lumber, Wood & Paper
Energy
What are Industry Partnerships?
• Organize clusters of businesses that share similar workforce
challenges, markets and suppliers
• Industry-led process is a key factor
• Create economies of scale for job training and education
• Identify key occupations
• Promote innovation
• Working together, business can identify worker skill gaps,
address training needs and develop regional strategies to build
stronger economies
Guidelines as Incentives
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Competitive process
LWIBs first priority
Encourage other intermediaries
Recommended partners:
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Career & Tech Schools
Educational institutions
Associations
Unions
Goals of IPs
• Multiple employer involvement
– Governance structure
– Industry and labor driven
• Regional economic and workforce challenges
• Identify industry needs
• Matching partnership funds
– Not Required, but encouraged
Incumbent Worker Training
• Trained over 75,000 existing or new hire
employees
• Work directly with groups of employers
in targeted industries (about 6,300)
• Job Ready PA will help current workers
upgrade their skills and train for higher
demand, higher paying jobs
Outcomes
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Deeper understanding of high growth occupations
More effective career education
New educational and earning opportunities
Better outcomes through improved performance
Larger volume of highly-skilled workforce in targeted
industries
• Stronger, more innovative, highly competitive companies