Industry Partnerships

Lead Your Industry in Workforce Development.

 

Industry Partnerships provide industry-led, employer-driven solutions to meet the needs of workers and employer. These partnerships are formed at the regional level to ensure that employers in key industry sectors can connect with each other, identify shared needs of an industry, and work with partners to design new systems that will solve the identified problems.

 

As a result, Industry Partnerships help employees get the skills they need to grow, and help job seekers connect with the skills they need to secure good paying jobs. Contact us to get connected.

 

Sector Work

 

Dynamic partnerships from regional driver industries are critical to the region's workforce development efforts. Our sector-based approach engages local businesses from across the region to inform, invest, and support workforce pipeline development efforts. Select a sector below to learn more.

 

Advanced Manufacturing

Agriculture

Biotechnology

Construction & Energy Efficiency

Health Care

 

 

 

Workforce Training and Retention Services

 

Short-term training engagements connect to our Career Pathways initiatives. Career Academies are a series of courses that are short term and start at various times during the academic term. Academies offer the ability for an individual to ladder into an established academic program or allow for re-entry into the workforce with a marketable set of academic experiences. Learn more

 

 

Workforce Expansion

 

We collaborate with economic development partners on company retention, expansion, and location strategies relating to workforce. This includes recruitment efforts, training efforts, and assistance with workforce reduction. We utilize economic modeling software to create skill profiles of available workforce and other labor market statistics relevant to the business and industry.

 

 

Exploring Cross-Industry Solutions

 

Workforce issues span across industries. We aim to provide an on-going forum for information sharing and strategic discussion. Such engagement facilitates connections, networks, and

 

 

Workforce Reduction and Rapid Response Assistance

 

Rapid Response addresses the needs of employers, workers, and the community through the development of ongoing strategies that help to ensure long-term economic stability and growth. Strategies employ the expertise, perspectives, and efforts of an extensive network of partners and stakeholders.

 

This type of transition management is not event-driven; it is a pro-active approach to planning for and managing economic transitions. It requires:

 

• Ongoing efforts to build relationships with employers and other community stakeholders 
• Knowledge of labor market trends and economic forecasts
• Strategic planning, data gathering and analysis designed to anticipate, prepare for, and manage economic transition
• Understanding workforce assets and needs
• Convening, facilitating, and brokering connections, networks, and partners
• Planning for and responding to layoffs, minimizing their impacts wherever possible

Engaging all regional stakeholders is critical to managing regional economic transition. A thriving economy depends on dynamic partnerships among a wide range of individuals and organizations: business/industry, workforce development, economic development, a wide spectrum of educational institutions, research institutions, community and services organizations, elected officials, and community leaders.

 

Economic transitions occur continuously. Managing these transitions requires a solution-based approach that actively engages all stakeholder groups, draws upon regional assets, redirects talent to meet the needed skills, and implements strategies that support a region’s economic vision for prosperity.

 

 

View our Job Seeker Resources and Employer Resources pages for additional resources and information.