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Guiding Questions
a. Is this goal right?b. Are the key issues the right key issues?
c. Are the indicators meaningful and useful?
d. Are there numeric targets for this goal that make sense?
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EI5-EDUCATION & TRAINING
2 Improve education, workforce education, and training.
Key Issue - Why do we care? What is the problem?
0 The County's ability to grow its economy in the future will be closely tied to its ability to provide available skilled labor, particularly once the currently unemployed are absorbed back into the ranks of the employed as much as their skills will allow.
0 The County's labor force has a relatively low unemployment rate and high labor participation rate, with many skills categories, particularly technical skills, reported as difficult to find or unavailable by area employers.
0 Employers report very good to excellent workforce quality, with good work ethic and productivity, and low turnover and absenteeism.
Key Indicators - How are we doing?
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3 Occupational Demand Currently and in One Year * |
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0 Source: WDGT Chittenden Employer Survey, September 2011 1 *As reported by 75 participating companies |
3 % of training program participants who find a job in Chittenden County
Other/Supporting Indicators
0 % of high school students scoring high proficiency science and math
1 # of internship opportunities offered by industry type
0 # of internships that become full time positions
0 # of training programs offered for specific employers or industry sectors and # of people enrolled
0 Total # of graduates from training programs
1 30% of employers (largely within the skilled machine trades) report that they have training needs that are not met by local resources. Source: WDGT Chittenden Employer Survey, September 2011
Suggestion: present table
Suggestion: present table more explicitly in terms of "unmet need"
Other/supporting indicators:
Other/supporting indicators: Somewhere we should have grad numbers by college and tech schools.
$ invested and Vermonters
$ invested and Vermonters served by Vermont training Program, WETF, WIB
This is primary data and
This is primary data and unlikely to be a relevant sample set year over year
import from Soc Comm: Local
import from Soc Comm: Local economies based on a limited number of industries, type of operation, or clusters are at risk if short-term or structural changes impact the economic base. A healthy economy will be diverse, offering a variety of types of jobs and job structures in a cross-section of industries, clusters and operational types. Chittenden County’s economic base is currently very diverse. This diversity must continue.
This info is interesting. But
This info is interesting. But it focuses on the demand. The goal implies we want to measure delivery of the ed and training.
FOr these three... Can we
FOr these three... Can we compile this data? The indicators are mostly useful if the primary goal is to increase the number of interships and training programs.
This indicator is indirect.
This indicator is indirect. Are we trying to show efficiency or benefits as compared to those who get jobs but did not get training? what time frame is assumed during which a participant might get a job?
jobs is not a direct measure
jobs is not a direct measure of the education piece; why not measure the education and training if that is the focus of the goal?
this is pretty broad; Do we
this is pretty broad; Do we need more or better? what determines improvement? what assumptions about the relationship between quantity and quality might be embedded here?
Wouldn’t a more appropriate
Wouldn’t a more appropriate measure be “what % of those who find a job in Chittenden County were “training program” participants?
How does the Occupational
How does the Occupational Demand relate to the Goal?
I think the goal could use
I think the goal could use some clarification.
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