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Introduction

• Models for Success– Registered Apprenticeship

– Energy Industry Occupations

– New Products• Career Lattice

• Certifications

– Registered Apprenticeship Advantage

– The Workforce Development System

– Apprenticeship and Economic Development

– 21st Century Apprenticeship System

– Training the New Workforce Gen X and Gen Y

Registered Apprenticeship (1)

• Voluntary Training System

• On-the-job learning complemented by theory or related instruction

• Partnership between employers, employees and government

• Focus on skills development

• Apprentices are employers

• More than 29,000 Registered Apprenticeship Programs

• More than 449,000 Apprentices

– 25.6 percent minorities

– 6 percent women

• More than 40,033 active military apprentices

Registered Apprenticeship (2)

Energy Industry Occupations

• Boiler Operators

• Electricians

• Estimators and Drafters

• Line Erectors

• Load Dispatchers

• Pipelayers

• Power Plant Operators

• Welders

New Products

• Partners

• Certifications

• Career Lattice

• Competency-Based Training

• Advancing Technology

• New Methods of Training

Registered Apprenticeship: Your Advantage

• Recruitment

• Reduced Cost of Training

• Personal and Staff Development

• Human Resource Development System

• Energy Industry Advantage in Development of Human Capital Assets

Workforce Development System

• WIRED Goal:– to expand employment and advancement

opportunities for American workers– to catalyze the creation of high-skill and high-wage

opportunities in the context of regional economies

• Effective Use of the Workforce System– Recruitment– Talent Development– Economic Systems– Integration– Partnerships

Workforce Development System

Apprenticeship and Economic Development

• Talent Development

• Leveraging the Workforce System

• Community Preparation

• Developing Human Resource Systems

• Connecting the Dots through Technology

The 21st Century Apprenticeship System

• Innovations of Registered Apprenticeship• Changing in the Dynamics of the

Workforce• Changing in the Learning Process• International Competition• Global Markets• Preparing the American Workforce

• Lessons Learned in Research on the New Workforce– How they learn

– What interests them

– How are they motivated

– Technology and the effect on the new workforce

– What innovations in management are required

– The composite look at the today’s workforce

– Tomorrow’s workers and managers

Training the New Workforce Gen X and Gen Y

For Further Information

• Contact:

Joseph Jenkins

Office of Apprenticeship

Employment and Training Administration

U.S. Department of Labor

200 Constitution Avenue NW., Room N-5425

Washington, DC 20210

E-mail [email protected]

(202) 693-3781