Workforce Development: Training Manual
Workforce Development: Training Manual
Economic developers need a strong workforce delivery system that works for local, emerging, and new businesses in the community. Recognizing the fact that the creative class and highly-skilled talent are more mobile than ever before, this manual will provide professionals with the tools required to stay competitive in the global economy. This manual includes a wide-variety of case studies that provide the reader with the practical knowledge to help design, implement and benchmark an efficient workforce delivery system.

Skilled workers are the backbone of a productive and efficient economy. This manual explains the strong relationship between economic and workforce development through case studies, practical examples and current research. Readers will learn what programs currently leverage federal, state and local financial resources to support workforce development. Also, this manual explains what collaborative programs will help talent attraction efforts, K-12 development and integration, occupational analysis, target industry clusters and more.

Specifically, this manual will help you to:

- Understand the workforce delivery system;
- Recognize the role of the economic developer in workforce development;
- Learn strategies to upgrade the competitiveness of the existing workforce;
- Identify methods to recruit and retain skilled labor;
- Determine your role in strengthening the emerging worker pipeline;
- Understand the needs of the retirees and the transitional workforce; and,
- Apply cluster- and sector-based workforce development strategies.
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