Workforce Development 2.0: How to Design a New Public Workforce System

Ed MorrisonPurdue Center for Regional DevelopmentAUBER | IndianapolisOctober, 2011

Lessons from around the countryLocation of Strategic Doing presentations and workshops

Collaborations to innovate

A few key concepts To move toward Workforce Development 2.0

Workforce Development 2.0Comes down to the 5 realities

1. Understanding a systems perspective

2. Adopting skills as a common language

3. Designing new visual maps for careers

4. Managing our regional “skills bank”

5. Accelerating open innovation: Collaborating quickly

K through 12Career 4 Years of

College

This model explains less

than 25% of what goes on

Our outdated ideasMany of us have an obsolete mental model

K through 12

Dependency Cycle

Career

Entry level

Working poor

$10.00per hour

2 Years of College

Certifications

4 Years of College

Early Childhood

Unemployed

12

3

4

5

Reality 1: Take a systems viewLess than 50% are prepared for high income careers

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Workforce Development in a NutshellLess than 50% are prepared for high income careers

Reality 2: Skills as a common languageBridge the communications gaps

Source: US DOL

Advance Manufacturing Competency model

Reality 3: New career pathway mapsUsing skills as path markers

Mechanical EngineerMachinistWelder

Mechanical + Production/Processing + Mathematics

Active listening + Active learning + Mechanical + Oral Comprehension + Oral Expression + Visualization + Problem Sensitivity + Information Ordering

Source: EMSI

Source: EMSI

Manufacturing Career Map

K through 12

2 Years of College

Certifications

Early ChildhoodEducation

Ready for School

Reading by Grade 2

Career explorationGrades 4-8

Alegebra by Grade 9

Early college

4 Years of College

Middle and High Skill Health Care

Career

A high level health career roadmap for parents of young children might look something like this...

Career guidanceGrades 9-12

Chemistry, Physics, Biology

Source: Strategy-Nets

Student/Parent Career Map for Nursing

A nursing career map from the UKSource: UK Department of Health

Nursing Career Map

Reality 4: Regional Skills BanksUnderstanding Occupational Clusters

http://www.statsamerica.org/innovation Source: Purdue Center for Regional Development, EMSI, and Indiana University Business Research Center

JOHNSON  SPACE  CENTER    Explora3on  Core/Support  Competency

"Marketable  Skill"  for  Industry

Petroleum  Refining  &  Chemical  Products

 Life  

Sciences  &  Healthcare

   

1.1  SpacecraL  SE&ISystems  Engineering;  Project  Management          

2.1.1  Integrated  Mission  Architecture  Defini3on  &  Analysis Systems  Architect          

2.1.2  Explora3on  Trade  Studies  &  Analysis Acquisi8on/Procurement P        

2.1.3  Vehicle  Design  &  Integra3onEngineering  Discipline/Domain  Exper8se          

2.1.4  Al3tude,  Impact,  and  Materials  Tes3ngPyrotechnics/Explosives;  Hypervelocity  Physics/Analysis;  Sta8s8cs;  Engineering          

2.2.1  Technology  Assessment  &  Planning Technology  Research  &  Development P   S    

3.1.1  Mission  Planning  &  Flight  DesignSoCware  Development;  Integrated  Mission  Planning          

3.1.2  Flight  Opera3ons  &  TrainingLogis8cs/Project  Management/Simula8on P   S    

4.1.1  Human  Health  &  PerformanceSports  Medicine;  Bioengineering;  Biomedical  R&D;  Nutri8on  R&D     S    

4.1.2  Space  Medicine  and  Health  Care  SystemsTelemedicine;  Bioengineering;  Environmental  Engineering;       S    

4.1.3  Human  Factors Biomedical  R&D;  Human  Factors     S    

S  =  Strong  Likelihood  of  Skills  MatchP  =  Possible  Likelihood  of  Skills  MatchBlank  =  No  known  likely  Skills  Match

Skills Mapping: An Example

Source: Regionerate

Reality 5: Strategic CollaborationsBuilding metrics driven collaborations quickly

K through 12

Dependency Cycle

Career

Entry level

Working poor

$10.00per hour

2 Years of College

Certifications

4 Years of College

Early Childhood

Unemployed

12

3

4

5

Washington State: Industry Skill Panels

Pennsylvania: Industry Partnerships

Indiana: Re-engagement Pathways

Strategy-Nets: Youth Network Pilots

Where are we going? How will we get there?

Strategic DoingDevelops strategy for collaborations

Where are we going?

How will we get there?

Workforce 2.0 Implications for new policy

Scrap old programs: Move from fixing problems to “linking and leveraging” assets

We need investments in: • One Stop infrastructure for skill assessments

and career guidance• Vouchers for subsidizing training tied to skill

assessments• Seed investments in productive collaborations• Applied research on new tool development

and dynamic evaluation

Thank you

Ed MorrisonEconomic Policy Advisor Purdue Center for Regional Developmentedmorrison@purdue.edu