Carolina: Ready to Work

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Carolina Ready to Work
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Purpose To create a coordinated statewide
certification system that uses a common language
across the workforce development, economic
development, and education systems to match
employee skills and employer needs. Decisions
were always weighed against the question, Which
option best promotes the expansion and use of
system by educators, businesses, and individuals
in South Carolina.
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• A national certificate with South Carolinas
  state seal and the Governors signature will be
  issued
• Certificates will have individual results on
  tests designed to assess skills matched to
  employer needs.
• Skills attained will be defined clearly on the
  back.

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• All technical colleges will offer the
  assessments, business profiling, and remediation
  
• All adult education offices and local workforce
  investment areas also will offer all three
  services either themselves or through partners
• LWIAs will refer individuals to eligible training
  providers if they need instruction beyond the
  self-paced, computer-based approach.

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• All partners, convened by the administrator of
  each local workforce investment area, will
  annually assess usage of the system in their area
  and develop a strategic plan, goals, and a
  marketing program to expand usage.

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A database will be created documenting
workforce skills for use as an economic
development tool.
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• A baseline analysis of regional economies in
  terms of current and forecasted growth using
  Labor Market Information data, local employment
  dynamics, regional business surveys, etc. will be
  established.

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• The database will also contain
• Information about the assessments, e.g., sample
  jobs that require certain scores
• Number and names, if given permission, of
  businesses that use the credential across the
  state
• Contact names and numbers for assessment sites,
  profilers, and remediation sites with links
• to each

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• That economic picture will be benchmarked to the
  skills of the regional workforce.
• Training and business recruitment will be
  targeted using the comparisons.

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• A group of business leaders will be advisors for
  the system. .will

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• Timeline
• The Request for Proposals is on the street
• Responses are due Nov. 16
• Reviews will be conducted
• The contract award is pending
• A statewide system is born!!

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• Thanks Task Force Members!!!
• WIA
• Bonnie Austin, Sandy Fowler, Vickie Tyner
• Technical Colleges
• Cleve Cox, Anne Crook, Kay Raffield
• Adult Education
• Joan Mason
• Business
• Sherman Cox, Co-Chair, Mark Glenn, Jim Reynolds,
  Ian Shaw
• Department of Education
• Cleo Richardson