Equipping Your Workforce With the Skills of Today and the Future
People drive your business — they are your greatest assets. As you meet today’s demands while envisioning future operations, let us help you train the talent pipeline with skillsets they need for your company to thrive.
Ohio contains tremendous untapped talent. Pools of prospective employees exist within every community and region, but they may need a little more assistance to become career ready. That’s where WorkAdvance becomes advantageous! the
Creating a pipeline of screened, trained, ready-to-work talent.
The WorkAdvance Model
WorkAdvance, piloted nationally as close as Northeast Ohio, holistically addresses how individuals get hired into good jobs. For many in our community, finding places that are hiring may be easy. However, there are many barriers that keep our untapped talent from being employable and employed. WorkAdvance provides individualized service to job seekers, from screening to job readiness to training to case management. The model heavily focuses on post-employment career coaching support to encourage individuals to advance in skills and their career, benefitting both the job seekers and their employer.
Training and Development
WorkAdvance gets the untapped talent ready for employment through a two-week training process that includes technical, job-readiness, and safety training.
Raise the Bar® worked with local manufacturers to select the appropriate training content to meet the needs of most area employers. View the curriculum and learning outcomes here.
Job Placement
WorkAdvance enables manufacturers to retain the choice in who they hire. Although we expect partnering manufacturers to, at minimum, interview program trainees, it’s up to the trainees to wow you with their skills and passion to be employed.
YOU decide who to interview. YOU hire who you want. YOU set starting wages.
Expectations
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Manufacturer
Offer tours for candidates
Communicate open positions
Provide a culture that values advancement
Provide employment data to track outcomes
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Raise the Bar & Partners
Targeted recruitment
Background screening
Training (job-readiness, technical skills)
Post-hire coaching/support services
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Combined
We understand workforce needs, ideal candidate profiles, and workplace culture needs
We understand the complexity of employment and employability and work to reduce barriers to job placement and advancement
Project Leadership
Project Funding
EDA’s American Rescue Plan, Good Jobs Challenge is making once-in-a-lifetime investments in high-quality, locally led workforce systems.
Ohio Manufacturers’ Association, in collaboration with several state agencies and partners, was awarded $23.4 million to implement a 3-year plan to address the industry’s stated needs.
Ohio manufacturing employers are projecting 50,000+/year new hires over the next 5 years.
Ohio manufacturers work together in key management areas –energy, environment, government affairs, human resources, safety and workers’ compensation, tax, and workforce development.
