Get to Know Your Workforce: New Ways to Analyze, Upgrade and Market Your Regional Talent

http://www.iedconline.org/?p=Know_Your_Workforce

Date: Thursday, February 24
Time: 2:30 - 4:00 pm EST
Cost: $85 for IEDC members, $125 for Non-members

Contact: [email protected]
Space is limited so register today!

In these dynamic times, documenting your existing workforce strengths and making smart investments in training are essential to long-term prosperity. The fastest-growing professions require more skill, knowledge, and training than in the past. Businesses searching for sites today want more detailed evidence of workforce capacity, provided in less time, than ever before.

This web seminar covers Skillshed Analysis, a novel technique for assessing regional workforce assets and the types of skills most urgently needed. The Skillshed methodology is a thorough process that uses publicly available data and goes beyond traditional workforce analysis tools to focus on concrete skills, rather than broad professions.

By attending the web seminar, you will learn how to:
• Better assess existing skills in your community
• Identify the careers that are growing and declining locally
• Use workforce data to attract new employers and help existing businesses and entrepreneurs
• Use workforce data to partner with educational institutions
• Identify the skill gaps that prevent local workers from entering promising professions

Join IEDC to learn critical information on how to identify, market, and upgrade the skills in your community from Paula Nissen of Iowa Workforce Development and Wendy Mihm-Herold of Northeast Iowa Community College.

Space is limited! Register today: http://www.iedconline.org/?p=Know_Your_Workforce

EXPERT SPEAKERS:

Paula Nissen
Bureau Chief
Iowa Workforce Development

Paula is the Public Service Executive for Iowa Workforce Development's (IWD) Regional Research & Analysis Bureau in Des Moines, Iowa. In addition to the Skillshed Analyses, her responsibilities include the development, design, analysis, and presentation of Iowa's Laborshed Studies, Workforce Needs Assessment, Fringe Benefit Profiles, Educational Outcomes Measures, Iowa College Student Surveys, and dislocated worker survey analyses among other workforce related research.

Wendy Mihm-Herold, Ph.D.
Vice President for Economic Development Services
Northeast Iowa Community College

Mihm-Herold currently serves as vice president for economic development services for Northeast Iowa Community College (NICC). In this position, she is responsible for training and development services to the business and industry communities of the NICC District. She works with the Iowa Department of Economic Development on the administration of the state's training programs and represents NICC in the One Source Training Consortium to coordinate statewide training opportunities amongst Iowa's community colleges.