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Developing Skilled Workers: A Toolkit for Manufacturers on Recruiting and Training a Quality…
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Provides tools and resources to support businesses in implementing industry-based skills certification and credentialing systems for developing a skilled workforce and recruiting new talent.
Developing Skilled Workers: A Toolkit for Manufacturers on Recruiting and Training a Quality Workforce
Major Findings and Recommendations
Recommendations focus on three key areas: (1) building partnerships (especially with chambers of commerce, the local workforce system, and community and technical colleges); (2) using community/technical colleges to tailor training programs and recruit talent; and (3) building “talent pipelines” through modernized hiring practices (p.4-9). Specific recommendations from key areas include:
• Develop community networks for training and certification programs to produce workers with the needed skills. Working with other manufacturers can broaden the network (p.4-5).
• “Talk to community colleges and technical schools about upcoming classes and students’ training paths. By volunteering your time to visit the classes, taking on interns, and agreeing to interview students earning certifications, you will have a great chance to build a base of candidates once they finish” (p.6).
• Use your human resources department to guide the modernization of “your recruiting and hiring practices [and]…build pathways for incumbent workers” (p.8-9). (Abstractor: Author and Website Staff)
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Career Pathways - General
Career Technical and Vocational Education
Certifications/Industry Recognized Certificates
Community Colleges
Competency Models
Credentials
Degree Programs
Industry Skill Standards
Occupational/Technical Training
Collaboration
Leveraging Resources
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- Resource Publication Date: 2014
- Author(s): N/A
- Organizational Author(s): The Manufacturing Institute
- Funding Source: Joyce Foundation
- Resource Availability: Publicly available
- Posted by: Justin Venneri
- Posted in: Workforce System Strategies