NAWDP 2012 Annual Conference

Building Globally Competitive Regions: Coordinated Approaches to Economic and Workforce Development

NAWDP 2012 Annual ConferenceMay 7, 2012

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May 7, 2012 | NAWDP 2012 Annual Conference

Outline

• Skills shortage: fact or fiction and what does it mean for #econdev and #workdev?

• Why coordinating #econdev and #workdev is so difficult and what we can do about it

• Promising models—federal and state trends shaping environment for collaboration and how regions are responding

http://www.statesman.com/business/state-could-face-shortage-of-skilled-trade-workers-2295654.html

Meme (mēm)

Unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/



Manufacturing: Highest Priority?

Rank OccupationAnnual

OpeningsMedian

Wage1 Sales and related 920,329 $13.262 Office and administrative support 747,477 $14.815 Business and financial operations 410,511 $23.128 Healthcare practitioners and technical 332,311 $32.169 Transportation and material moving 328,948 $14.6410 Production 266,598 $14.9913 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media 213,697 $14.0316 Computer and mathematical science 139,654 $32.5518 Community and social services 100,676 $16.40

Source: EMSI. Annual openings are 2006-2011. Median wage is 2011.


Projected Openings (No Degree)Occupation

AnnualOpenings

MedianWage

TrainingRequirement

Customer service representatives 111,781 $14.53 ModerateTruck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer 65,317 $17.95 ShortBookkeeping, accounting, audit clerks 52,532 $15.47 ModerateLicensed practical, vocational nurses 38,912 $18.96 Postsec awardMaintenance and repair workers 37,908 $15.95 ModerateInsurance sales agents 35,206 $16.25 Postsec awardConstruction laborers 28,259 $14.57 ModerateIndustrial truck and tractor operators 21,249 $14.20 ShortMedical assistants 21,249 $14.20 ModerateAutomotive service techs & mechanics 20,728 $18.14 Postsec award

Source: EMSI. Annual openings are 2006-2011. Median wage is 2011.


Skilled Trades Shortage? (Texas)

• 2,500 job postings out of 367,000 total jobs in skilled trades (0.7% posting/job ratio compare to 0.9% for all occupations)

• Job Printers (9.2%), Stationary engineers and boiler operators (5.5%), Numerical tool and process control programmers (4.8%)

• Machinists (0.5%), Welders (0.4%)Source: EMSI, Indeed. Definitions of skilled trades by SOC from Virginia Manufacturers Association.


More Urgent Shortages? (10x avg)

Physical therapist assistants

Occupational therapists

Sales managers

Speech-language pathologists

Sales engineers

Chemical engineers

Agricultural & food science techs

Occupational therapist assistants

Physician assistants

Computer specialists

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40%

10%

12%

12%

13%

14%

14%

14%

23%

29%

33%

Source: EMSI, Indeed. Data is for Texas, selected occupations with at least 300 job postings.

http://nistmep.blogs.govdelivery.com/2012/04/26/skills-gaps-or-wage-gaps/


Retiring Boomers

19-24 25-44 45-64 65+0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

12%

46%

36%

4%6%

37%

51%

5%

Total OccupationsSkilled Trades

Source: EMSI.


Why does this matter?

• Not just an academic argument—important implications for policy

• Employer-driven or people-driven?

• Need better insight to drive investments and regional partnerships

Coordinating #econdev and #workdev


Why is this so difficult?

• #econdev is usually reactive, secretive, and negotiated under unforgiving timelines

• Most companies and #econdev practitioners have poor understanding of #workdev

• Performance measures are usually not aligned in a way that motivates collaboration


#Econdev Pearls of Wisdom

• #Workdev is where unemployed people go to get benefits

• What does #workdev know about industry?

• We can always go to #workdev later for training money

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and

Love Economic Developers

Image by: fivetwelvestudios.com


Partnership Opportunities

• Economic developers love data. They just don’t want to have to do it themselves.

• Economic developers love grants. They just don’t want to have to write them or master the nuances of federal agencies.

• Economic developers love winning. Help them see workforce as a competitive advantage.


http://www.wfscapitalarea.com/images/stories/full%20report_state%20of%20workforce.pdf

Look for opportunities to align programs, such as using the WIB board as CEDS committee or using the same data analysis for environmental scans,

target occupations, and CEDS annual update.

http://clustermapping.us

http://clustermapping.us

http://www.statsamerica.org

http://www.statsamerica.org/innovation


Custom Regions allows you to get past the data

challenges of service area boundaries.


http://www.pennyrilefuture.com

http://www.reditn.com

Federal/State Context:Washington & Governors Go “Bottom-Up”

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/11/jobs_accelerator.html

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/02/21/we-can-t-wait-obama-administration-announces-steps-boost-rural-economy-p

http://www.nado.org/mobilize-maine-asset-based-regional-economic-development/

http://www.spurinitiative.org/

With direct and deliberate consideration and a new collaborative learning process, effective bridges can be built between areas that are experiencing innovation-driven growth and those that are economically distressed.


http://www.unitedtribestech.com/news/story/102711_02.asp

Wordle™ of remarks prepared for delivery by Matt Erskine, Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development, at National Association of Development Organizations 2012 Washington Policy Conference in Arlington, VA, on March 20, 2012.

http://nyworks.ny.gov

http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite/OEDIT/OEDIT/1251595201376

http://ceds.alabama.gov

http://www.nctomorrow.org


Summary: #Workdev Call To Action

• Challenge conventional wisdom and help us improve our understanding of #workdev

• Be aggressive about pursuing new federal inter-agency funding opportunities

• Think broadly about opportunities for partnerships and take risks


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Brian Kelsey, PrincipalCivic Analytics [email protected]