In January 2015, the EDIWS Vice President’s Office published version 1.0 of a new report created to measure the middle-skill gaps within the nine-county Finger Lakes region. Here are some highlights from the 188-page report, Measuring Middle-Skills Occupational Gaps within the Finger Lakes Regional Economy:
• Labor supply/labor demand analysis applied to 23 middle-skill occupational groups from 5 local workforce clusters (advanced manufacturing, skilled trades, information and computer technology, health care, and hospitality and tourism) within the Finger Lakes region.
• Dashboards showing regional Middle-Skill provider’s annual completions.
• MCC produced occupational videos documenting local middle-skill occupations.
• Program-based economic impact analysis estimating the annual marginal impact to the local economy from up skilling a high school level educated worker to a middle-skill level occupation from completing a formal workforce program.
• Skill cluster analysis aggregating real time labor data from relevant and local online job postings.
The point is not measurement for measurement sake but making this information actionable and impactful to the workforce functions of the College and in the community. This data will be used to better inform regional workforce planning and response. It is our intention to continue to refine, and update the data within this framework to produce future versions.
Since its release this new report has garnered attention from:
• local media including the Democrat and Chronicle and Rochester Business Journal
• state organizations including SUNY, New York Association of Training and Employment Professionals (NYATEP), Finger Lakes Advanced Manufacturing Enterprise (FAME), Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council Workforce Workgroup
• national organizations including the National Skills Coalition
I encourage you to review the following new reports, Measuring Middle-Skills Occupational Gaps within the Finger Lakes Regional Economy and MCC Program Based Economic Impact Analysis Report, at www.workforceforward.com/reports.
Todd Oldham
EDIWS
03/04/2015 |