Goal: The Coalition will ensure a globally competitive workforce to meet the need of employers by creating solutions for quality workforce development, both locally and regionally.

Quantity of the workforce:

·         Identify youth and unemployed workers through the local workforce investment boards to meet regional needs.

·         Conduct labor force forecast and gap analysis.

·         Recruit workforce from outside the region.

Quality and Reliability of the workforce:

·         Encourage, promote and report employers’ and employees’ participation in Oklahoma’s Career Readiness Certificate (Work Keys)

·         Encourage, promote and report K-12, Career Tech and High Education's participation in Oklahoma's Career Readiness Certificate (Work Keys)

·         Encourage, promote and report K-12, Career Tech and Higher Education's participation in skill level assessment and development (Key Train).

·         Identify regional high skills-high wage employment opportunities for internship application.

·         Promote incumbent worker training to upgrade skills.

Sector/Industry Cluster Strategy:

Identify critical sectors to begin strategic planning process

·         Develop a team to assess the workforce issues of each sector, develop a plan of action to address those issues, implement the plan of action, and evaluate and improve the plan.

o    Use existing research or conduct new research for identified sectors.

o    Identify common skills related to occupations within the sectors

o    Identify skill levels for occupations

o    Determine the workforce needs by skill set and level and gap between needed and actual

o    Develop an action plan to fill gaps

·         Develop timelines to complete sector planning

·         Identify additional sectors/industry clusters for strategic planning

Lead Institutions: ASCOG & SWODA