Dealing with Downsizing in your Community

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Dealing with Downsizing in your Community

• December 15, 2008

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Web Conference

• 10-15 minute QA at the end
• Recording sent via email tomorrow
• If you are having any trouble with the web audio
  broadcast, you can dial in to listen to the
  presentation
• Call-in toll-free number (US/Canada)
  866-699-3239
• Event number 357 008 092

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What is CAEL?

• CAEL is the Council for Adult and Experiential
  Learning
• A 501(c)3 non-profit, international organization
  with 30 years of experience
• Headquartered in Chicago, IL with offices in
  Philadelphia, PA Denver, CO New York, NY
• and Norwalk, CT
• A national workforce intermediary dedicated
• to removing barriers to adult learning

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CAELs Mission

• CAEL advances lifelong learning in partnership
  with educational institutions, employers, labor
  organizations, government, and communities
• CAEL works to remove the barriers to adults so
  that they can pursue higher education and realize
  their potential

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CAELs Intermediary Role
Workforce Learning and Development
Employers and Unions
Higher Education
CAEL
Public Policy
Government and Community
Colleges and Universities
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Dealing with Downsizing

• Reaching Job Seekers
• Affecting Positive Transition
• Charting New Directions

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Richard Duncan, East Tennessee Director

• Tennessee AFL-CIO
• Technical Assistance

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Serving Dislocating Workers Key Challenges

• Reaching Workers before they are dislocated
• The Right Message at a Sensitive Time
• Handling the Volume
• Understanding their full skill profile

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Dorothy Wax, Director

• CAEL Career Services

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CAEL Transition Services
For Companies
For Employees

• Determine individuals skills gap
• Identify education and training options
• Determine learning style preferences
• Investigate Prior Learning Assessment options

• Coordinate of services
• Identification of resources
• Management of education benefits
• Partner with outplacement firm

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Coordination of Activities

• CAEL works with government, social service
  agencies, educational institutions and other
  non-profit organizations
• Engages the community by leveraging support of
  local community colleges and available public
  training resources, such as the federal One-Stop
  system
• Assists in identifying and accessing available
  public or private sector training benefits and/or
  community transition funds, enhancing the level
  of service available to the displaced workforce

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Education Advising During Transition

• Know Yourself-
• With a CAEL advisor, identify
• Career options
• Skills gaps
• Learning style
• Opportunities for college credit for prior
  learning
• Know Your Options
• Create a tangible plan with advisor
• Identify training and education providers
• Take Action
• Use available resources to fund training

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Key Outcomes of Advising During Transition
Outcomes
Provide a pool of re-trained employees in case of
business upturns
Leverage available government and corporate
retraining dollars
Maintain the morale, productivity and loyalty of
the remaining workforce
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CAEL Transition Clients

• Industries
• Financial Services
• Pharmaceuticals
• Manufacturing

• Services
• National and regional scope
• Independent or in partnership
• Advising and education benefit management

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Benefits of Transition Services from CAEL

• Maintain your company's customer base through
  good public relations
• Ensure that downsized employees remain loyal
  customers
• Enhance the company's reputation in the
  community/marketplace
• Guarantee the company's recruitment power as an
  "employer of choice"

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Joel Simon, Senior Consultant

• CAEL, Government and Healthcare Services

Defining Illinois Life Sciences Career
Opportunities
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Illinois was.
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Illinois is
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Our Challenge

• Growth opportunities hindered by skills/talent
  shortages
• Unclear pathways into and through Life Sciences
  careers
• An industry with many sub-sectors, and many
  possible careers at all levels

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The Process

• Review of National Career Resources
• Identify National Models for Life Science
  Workforce Development
• Employer Intermediary Information
• Employer Validation Committee
• Job Families
• Titles and Roles
• Requirements
• Salary Ranges

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Regional Associations

• Life Sciences Career Alliance (PA)
• Access Excellence
• MassBIO
• North Carolina Biotechnology Center
• California Employment Department
• BIOCOM (San Diego)

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Industry Sources

• AgForLife
• Biomedical Engineering Society
• LifeScience Alley
• Illinois Seed Trade Association
• IL Fertilizer Chemical Association
• Illinois Farm Bureau
• Nano Business Alliance

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Employer Validation

• Takeda Pharmaceuticals
• Tate and Lyle
• Valent Biosciences
• Rush University
• University of Illinois
• Northwestern University

• Abbot Labs
• Advanced Life Sciences
• ADM
• Chromatin
• Hospira
• Monsanto
• Nanosphere
• Pioneer

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Level I Critical Job Families

• Manufacturing
• Facilities
• Regulatory
• Strategy and Business Development
• Information Systems
• Administration
• Legal
• Finance
• Government Affairs
• Training/Learning and Development
• Communications

• Discovery Research
• Clinical
• Scientists
• Scientific Technicians
• Engineering
• Quality
• Process Development
• Product Development
• Project Management
• Pharmacoeconomics
• Bioinformatics
• Pharmacovigilance

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Level II Titles and RolesDiscovery Research Job
Family

• Animal Handler/Caretaker
• Glasswasher
• Greenhouse Assistant
• Laboratory Assistant
• Animal Technician
• Plant Breeder
• Research Assistant
• Research Associate
• Animal Facility Manager/Supervisor

• Senior Research Associate
• Principal Research Associate
• Post Doctorate Scientist
• Scientist I
• Scientist II
• Veterinarian
• Senior Scientist
• Chief Scientific Officer

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Example Laboratory Assistant

• Description
• Performs research laboratory tasks and
  experiments under the supervision of other
  laboratory staff makes and records detailed
  observations, maintains laboratory equipment,
  performs inventory

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Example Laboratory Assistant

• Education/Experience
• High school diploma/equivalent, preferably
  biotechnology certificate or AS and 1-2 years
  related laboratory experience

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Example Laboratory Assistant

• Sub-Sector
• Research, Agriculture, Academia, Healthcare,
  Pharmaceutical
• Salary  
• 21,000 - 40,000

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.in all.

• 23 Job Families Identified
• Basic Descriptions
• 263 Positions Catalogued
• Entry to PhD
• Basic Descriptions
• Career Progression Examples
• National Survey of Life Science Workforce
  Development Programs

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Next Steps

• Prioritizing Skills Shortage Positions
• Inventory Education and Training Offerings
• Career and Educational Advising
• Training and Linkage
• Constant Updates

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Questions?
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Thank You!