corporate learn and earn models: educating employees, increasing recruitment and retention for...

Corporate “Learn and Earn” Models

Educating Employees,Increasing Recruitment and Retention

for Employers

Peggy Walton, Director, Workforce ReadinessCorporate Voices for Working Families

Van Ton-Quinlivan, Director, Workforce Development Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Peggy M. WaltonDirector, Workforce Readiness

April 14, 2010

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Corporate “Earn and Learn”Models

Improving the Lives of Working Families

About CVWF

Founded in 2001

National business membership organization Represent private sector in dialogue on public policy issues involving working families

50 partner companiesAnnual net revenues more than $1 trillion

More than 4 million employees

All 50 states

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Our Corporate Partners

Abbott Laboratories

Accenture

Allstate Insurance Company

Altria Group, Inc.

AstraZeneca

Bank of America

Bank of New York Mellon

Baxter International Inc.

Booz Allen Hamilton

Bright Horizons Family Solutions

Childrens’ Creative Learning Centers

Citi

CVS/Caremark

Deloitte & Touche, LLP

Eli Lilly and Company

Ernst & Young

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GlaxoSmithKline

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

H. E. Butt Grocery Company

Hewlett Packard

ICF International, Inc.

ING Foundation

Johnson & Johnson

JPMorgan Chase

Knowledge Learning Corporation

KPMG LLP

LifeCare

Marriott International, Inc.

MassMutual Financial Group

Merck & Co., Inc.

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

Morgan Stanley

Office Depot, Inc.

Phoenix Companies, Inc.

PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.

RSM McGladrey

Sodexo

The TJX Companies, Inc.

Wachovia

WFD Consulting

Workplace Options

WorkSource Partner


Our Goal

Improve the lives of all working families

Develop and advanceinnovative and sustainable policies

Bipartisan support

Foster collaborationPrivate sector

Government

Other stakeholders

Facilitate research in several areas

Includes workforce readiness

Postsecondary completion

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How We Do It

Standing Workforce Readiness Task Force

Working group

Case studies

Reports in business-friendly language

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Frames research agenda

Provides input on particular pieces of research

Illustrate research findings

Increase accessibility

Making Research Relevant


Current Research

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundationpartnership

Identify employer-led“earn and learn”models of talent development

Postsecondary completion

Credentials with labor marketvalue earned


Background

2018 – 47 million jobs/job openings14 million new jobs

33 million retiring baby boomers

64% will require some postsecondary education/trainingReady or not: The Jobs Recovery and educational Requirements through 2018

Anthony Carnevale, Mar 2010

U.S. from 1st to 10th in the global rankings of college attainment

Retiring educated workforce

Demographic growth


Background

Only 1 in 5 enrolled in a two-year institutionearns an associate degree

Top reason for dropping out –too hard to support themselves

6 in 10 work more than 20 hours a week

25%+ work more than 35 hours a weekWith Their Whole Lives Ahead of Them

Public Agenda, 2009


Roles for Businesses

Research: Articulate needs; track internal costs in order to calculate true cost to business.

Community Engagement/Leadership: Be more strategic and coordinated to ensure workforce readiness skills are developed before new entrants show up to work.

Public Policy: Advocate for improved education and workforce training policies that support workforce readiness.

Business Practice: Partnerships to support workforce readiness as well as post secondary education attainment.


Model Business PracticesEarn and Learn Working Group

Verizon WirelessLearningLINK as a strategy to meet corporate goals of recruitment, retention, career mobility, and job performance

partner with 15 institutes of higher learning

Northrop GrummanApprenticeship School

Partnerships with Thomas Nelson Community College and Tidewater Community College.

UPSPublic/Private partnership—Metropolitan College

Employee retention in overnight hub operations


Earn and Learn Working Group

Marriott International

Northrop Grumman

Pacific Gas and Electric

The Home Depot

TJX Companies

UPS

Verizon Wireless

Washington Gas and Light

Worksource Partners

YUM Brands

Accenture

Adecco North America

Baxter Healthcare International

Bon Secours Health Systems

Bright Horizons

CVS/Caremark

H.E. Butt

KPMG, LLP.

PowerPathwayPowerPathway™™::A workforce development A workforce development

best practicebest practice

Van Ton‐QuinlivanDirector, Pacific Gas and Electric

[email protected]

Vision: Build capacity in California to produce the skilled workers

needed by PG&E and the energy & utility industry.

ENLARGE TALENT POOL FOR PG&E

PowerPathway: Career Prep

Working through communities to attract

the right people with the right skills at the right

time

2009 results: Improved diversity, quality.

2009 expansion: veterans, new geographies, new classifications, multi‐

employer consortia.

Vision: Build capacity in California to produce the skilled workers

needed by PG&E and the energy & utility industry.

ENLARGE TALENT POOL FOR PG&E

PowerPathway: CAREER PREPWorking through

communities to attract the right people with the

right skills at the right time

SUPPORT GREENING OF COMMUNITIES

PowerPathway: GREEN

Guiding cities and municipalities on best practices to create a

green workforce

PREPARE TOMORROW’S GRADUATES

PowerPathway: EDUCATION (K-12)

Generating early interest in Science/Tech/Eng/Math

(STEM) pathways and career technical education

JOINTLYADDRESS

WORKFORCE CHALLENGES

PowerPathway: INDUSTRY

Preparing for retirement & diversity trends, and a

carbon-constrained future

PowerPathway Training Networkin the Skilled Crafts (PPTNsc)

PowerPathway: CAREER PREP

Working through communities to attract the right people with the

right skills at the right time

Regional Multi-Employer

Alliances

PowerPathway:EDUCATION (K-12)

Generating early interest in Science/Tech/Eng/Math

(STEM) pathways and career tech education

New EnergyHigh School Academies*

STEM preparation & STEM career

pathways*

PowerPathway™ Portfolio

CA Energy & Utility Workforce Consortium

PowerPathway:INDUSTRY

Preparing for retirement & diversity trends, and a carbon-constrained

future

Center for Energy Workforce

Development (CEWD)

*In collaboration with PG&E’s

Community Relations

PowerPathway Training Networkin Clean Tech Vehicles (PPTNcv)

PowerPathway:GREEN

Guiding cities and municipalities on best practices

to create a green workforce

Green Jobs Primer for Communities

PowerPathway Training Networkin Energy Efficiency (PPTNee)

PowerPathway Training Networkin Engineering & SmartGrid

(PPTNes)

2008

2011

2009

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National Commission on Energy Policy

Peggy Walton, Director, Workforce ReadinessCorporate Voices for Working Families

Van Ton-Quinlivan, Director, Workforce Development Pacific Gas and Electric Company

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