About the Initiative
This initiative is a strategic effort to prepare workers to take advantage of new and increasing job opportunities in high growth, high demand and
economically vital sectors of the American economy. Fields like health care, information technology, and advanced manufacturing have jobs and solid
career paths left untaken due to a lack of people qualified to fill them. The High Growth Job Training Initiative targets worker training and career
development resources toward helping workers gain the skills they need to build successful careers in these and other growing industries.
STEM Initiative
Expanding and aligning current and new STEM workforce education and training strategies, activities, and resources.
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Aging Worker Initiative
The Aging Worker Initiative (AWI) seeks to expand the workforce investment system’s understanding about how to best serve the older worker
population and develop models to share with all local workforce investment areas.
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Targeted Industries
To put this approach into action, the High Growth Job Training Initiative identified 14 sectors that fit within the
following criteria:
(1) they are projected to add substantial numbers of new jobs to the economy or affect the growth of other industries; or
(2) they are existing or emerging businesses being transformed by technology and innovation requiring new skills sets for workers.
The sectors include:
Initiative Outcomes
In addition to numerous industry specific solutions, ETA identified a core set of priority solution elements that are common to all 14 target
industries. These elements include:
- Developing a pipeline of young workers;
- Building competency models, career ladders, and career lattices for new and incumbent workers;
- Expanding postsecondary training alternatives including apprenticeships and community colleges’ workforce development programs;
- Accessing new and/or untapped labor pools;
- Transitioning workers from declining industries;
- Developing strategies for retaining incumbent workers and updating their skills; and
- Engaging small businesses.
The High Growth Job Training Initiative is investing in national models and demonstrations of workforce solutions in these sectors designed to
achieve the following outcomes:
- Targeted investment of workforce development resources and support for private and public sector partnerships to ensure the development of
workers' skills in demand occupations based on industry need.
- Increased integration of community and technical college efforts with business and the public workforce system activities to meet the skills
training needs of high growth industries.
- Increased opportunities for employers to use apprenticeship training as skills development methodology, combining on-the-job training and
academics, to ensure a pipeline of skilled workers.
- Providing workers with paths to career enhancing opportunities in high growth occupations.
- Providing workers with paths to career enhancing opportunities in high growth occupations.
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