U.S. Department of Labor/
Maryland Department of Labor,
Licensing & Regulation
Maryland Legislature & Governor
Maryland Department of Labor,
Licensing & Regulation
Career Pathways Institute
2011-2012
EARN Legislation, April 2013
Baltimore City &
Baltimore County
THE PURPOSE OF THE MARYLAND EARN
PROGRAM IS TO CREATE INDUSTRY–LED
PARTNERSHIPS TO ADVANCE THE SKILLS OF
THE STATE’S WORKFORCE, GROW THE
STATE’S ECONOMY, AND INCREASE
SUSTAINABLE EMPLOYMENT FOR WORKING
FAMILIES.
1
Employer Perspective on Why Employers Care About
Desperately Need Workforce Development
2
Workforce-Technology Evolution
1950 – MIT Servo lab uses Punch Tape
with a milling machine
1952 – John Parsons Patent for CNC,
patent number 2,820,187
1957 – Ross and Pople at MIT g-code &
APL Programming Language
1961 – Integrated Circuit Patent Award
1965 – DEC PDP-8 microcomputer
Millions of World Wide Web Users
2500
2000
1500
1972 – HP 35 Pocket Calculator
1975 – Microsoft Founded
1976 – Cincinnati Milacron leads CNC
Production
1979 – German CNC production
surpasses U.S.
1980 – Japan CNC production
surpasses Germany
1982 – AutoCAD First Release
1000
500
0
1962
1972
1982
1992
2002
2012
Year
1986 – Chuck Hull patents Sereolithography
U.S. Patent 4,575,330
1998 – Google Founded
2003 – NIST EMC2 Open Source Code
2007 – I Phone Introduced
2009 – China Leads Machine Tool Production
2010 - DARPA crowd sourced design experiments
201? – Semantic web routine machine-to-machine
disparate data transfers
200,000 Years of Manufacturing Labor
3
Greater student & parent awareness of
manufacturing career options
High Schools
Revamp high school VOTECH to include
advanced manufacturing technology
for tomorrow’s highly paid workers
Community
Colleges
Skills training for today & tomorrow’s
manufacturing workforce
Universities
Reintroduce manufacturing
engineering as a major
Growth in Maryland Manufacturing Workforce
Elementary &
Middle Schools
Industry Internships & Mentoring
Displaced & Unemployed
Programs
Baltimore County & City
Manufacturing Career Pathway
4
Why to employers need to be at the table? partners
Collaboration Required
• Identify gaps in workforce
• Train for Jobs of tomorrow
not of yesterday – industry
input
• Internships and
apprenticeship placements
• Hiring decisions are tied to
job skills – be responsive to
employers
• Financial links- payment for
training
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Henry Ford
Examples
One Company’s EARN Conclusions
• Benefits
– Increased communication between workforce development and hiring
communities
– Training responsive to industry changing needs
• Real-time curricula updates from hiring organizations
• Business cycle changes are reflected in training priorities
– Industry participation leads to greater hiring
– Bipartisan support when programs succeed
• Challenges
– Harder to organize – diverse participants and objectives
– Harder to manage – new participants don’t understand workforce
metrics, processes, and reporting needs
– If not appropriately organized, can leave some groups unserved
– Community colleges can be financially hurt hurt if they don’t engage
Dynamic leadership is essential – Proscriptive approaches are unlikely to succeed