Module 2

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Module 2

• Template for Workforce Investment Boards

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Module 2 Learning Objectives

• Participants will become familiar with the
  web-based WIB template including use of the
  template to generate local area information

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Module 2 Agenda

• Review Exercise
• Discussion Whats in it for Workforce
  Investment Boards?
• Introduction to WIB Templates
• Discussion Balancing use of totals and use of
  percentages
• Computer Exercises for WIB Templates
• Feedback

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Keep Your Eye on the Prize

• Who are the target audiences?
• What content would be valuable to them?
• Why are we communicating and why do they care?

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Review Exercise

• Three groups of local areas
• Local Area A does the research for Local Area B,
  Area B does research for Area C, Area C does
  research for Area A.
• Compare the New Hire Earnings in the 2nd Quarter
  of 2003 among health care, manufacturing and
  retail.
• Report out in your small group.

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Whats in it for Local Workforce Investment
Boards? (Revisited)

• Unique intelligence, also at specific levels of
  geographic and industrial detail
• Ability to query key indicators at the workforce
  area level
• Provides Answers to.
• What is my market penetration of job seekers?
• Which training programs should I be
  concentrating on?
• What are key benchmarks around turnover and
  retention?
• What are the industry sectors in which we should
  be directing our time and resources?
• What is the pattern of new hires in my area?
• What is the labor supply pool of recently
  employed persons in my area?

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Whats in it for Local Workforce Investment
Boards? p.2 (Revisited)

• Provides Answers to
• To which industries should I be directing
  displaced workers? (Help guide Rapid Response)
• What are the industries hiring X type of
  worker?
• Where are the people in relation to the jobs?
• What is the overall labor market activity in my
  area?
• Where should I locate a new one-stop office?
• and many other critical questions

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Introduction to WIB Templates
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Top 10 New Hire Earnings(All of Allegheny County
PA)
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Top 10 New Hire Earnings(Allegheny County PA,
25-34 Year Old Males)
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Sample Data for New Hires
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Working with Totals and Percentages

• Note that totals in some categories may be
  influenced by totals in the employment category
• If retail trade has the highest level of
  employment, it might have higher levels of new
  hires, turnover, etc.
• What if you took new hires, separation, etc., as
  a percentage of all employment in that industry?
• Exercise
• In your local area, what percentage of all health
  care jobs did new hires in health care represent?

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Computer Exercises

• Groups of local areas
• Local Area A does the research for Local Area B,
  Area B researches for Area C, and Area C
  researches for Area A
• Report out to one another
• What is the relationship between male and female
  workers age 35-44 in health care?
• What are the industries paying the top 5 highest
  monthly wages? Is health care one of them?
• What industry has created the most jobs for older
  workers, 55-64?

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Feedback

• Wrap-Up and QA
• Initial Reactions to LED Data and Internet pages
• Suggestions for future training improvements