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Government, Education, and Community Based Organizations all play an active role in partnership with Business in providing worker training and development opportunities to maintain a skilled labor force. The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is committed to helping HR professionals remove the barriers that may prevent qualified workers from being fully considered for jobs—particularly because of barriers to opportunities, education, training and long-term unemployment status.
In addition to the following resources our local Seattle SHRM chapter has provided, SHRM National also provides a wide variety of resources and toolkits on their website to help Human Resources professionals navigate Workforce Readiness resources. Please go to the SHRM.org Workforce Readiness Resources to access these resources.
“The public workforce system, as defined by the US Department of Labor, is a network of federal, state, and local government-funded agencies and programs that provide services to workers, job seekers, and employers to support economic expansion and develop the talent of our nation’s workforce.”
– Urban Institute
The overarching goal of the public workforce system is to align education, government, and other community-based partners with businesses to ensure workforce readiness with a skilled and job-ready workforce available to meet business needs, along with supporting a more diverse workforce, improving career pathways and better income equality.
The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) was signed into law by President Barack Obama on July 22nd, 2014. WIOA is designed to help job seekers access employment, education, training, and support services to succeed in the labor market and to match employers with the skilled workers they need to compete in the global economy.
Nationally, the public workforce system has it foundation built around the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). Each State is responsible to direct federal, state, and local funding to workforce development programs with Workforce Boards providing oversight and design. States also oversee American Job Centers (DOL) (branded as WorkSource® in WA State), serving job seekers, businesses, students, and career advisors with a variety of no cost in-person services and online tools, information and resources. Centered around supporting priority service populations (WIOA Desk Aid).
State and federal plans foundationally are build around U.S. Dept of Labor (DOL) Program Areas and reflect the guidance of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). Each state creates its own a strategic “Regional Workforce Plan” plan for workforce development and local workforce areas support the plan.
In Washington State, there are 12 regional workforce areas overseen by Workforce Development Councils. Each must create a four-year workforce plan that offers a vision for their local workforce development system. WA State Workforce Board, Regions and Washington’s Strategic Plan for Workforce Development.
In King County, the Workforce Development Council of Seattle-King County creates and oversees their local workforce development plan, including oversight of the WorkSource Seattle-King County “system.”
WorkSource® is a consortium of partners in our State that includes Government, Education and Community Based Organizations coming together under the WIOA Act to develop and connect job seekers and employers. It supports the Department of Labor’s online CareerOneStop® system and the physical American Job Centers®. It provides an array of employment and training programs and other services to assist job seekers and businesses. In our state it is “branded” as WorkSource®.
WorkSource® in Seattle-King County is the local partner on behalf of the Federal and State Public Workforce System supporting the Department of Labor’s American Job Centers® network and other bu. Currently with over 40 local “direct” WorkSource system partners and hundreds of “indirect” community partners all centered on supporting priority populations and those underserved with significant or multiple barriers to employment.
The Seattle-King County WorkSource Business Relations Team directly assists business leaders and human resource professionals at the industry-level to better understand local workforce needs and challenges, along with navigating the public workforce system. Serving and guiding employers into available business tools and resources at no cost, including talent acquisition, retention strategies, labor market information, layoff assistance, and connecting with public workforce partners who provide employment support and workforce training programs around priority service populations .
Additionally, the team is here to help businesses with their goals to recruit, hire, and promote a more diverse workforce, along with supporting EEOC best practices, Affirmative Action plans and Federal Contractor compliance (OFCCP/VEVRAA) connecting business to local diversity partners in government, education, and community-based organizations.
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