Join the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) performance accountability team from the U.S. Departments of Labor and Education (the Departments) as they discuss the recently published joint guidance on data validation.
This interactive forum provides Evaluation Peer Learning Cohort members an opportunity to develop a specific research question around one of their workforce programs and discuss challenges and solutions in planning an evaluation to answer that question. Participants will learn from each other about the different uses for the Evaluation Design and Implementation Assessment tool that further guide the development of meaningful research questions.
This webinar provides an overview of two tools that state or local workforce agencies ready to conduct rigorous evaluations of their programs can use to plan their evaluation projects and determine where additional resources or technical assistance may be needed.
The 2018 APPAM Fall Research Conference will celebrate APPAM's 40th conference on November 8 - 10 at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, DC. For more information click the reserve a seat link.
The U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Andrew Foote as he presents, “New National Earnings Data for Graduates by Institution and Major.” The Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) project tabulates earnings by institution, degree level and degree field.
Workforce agency managers and policymakers need good information to demonstrate that programs and services produce effective outcomes and impacts. This webinar provides an overview of an evaluation assessment tool that may be used to measure state progress.
Join the Jobs for the Future’s Center for Apprenticeship & Work-Based Learning for a one-hour webinar exploring the growing influence that competency-based learning frameworks and program models are having on apprenticeship in the US.
The purpose of this technical assistance (TA) event is to provide learning strategies to explain the value of your program at any stage of the grant lifecycle. The webinar will provide America’s Promise (AP) grantees with tips on how to best promote their program.
Gain a working knowledge about the organization and purpose of the competency model, and understand how the model could be used to help address your own workforce challenges. Hear about a “real world” application of the model with the National Rural Water Association which helped that organization serve the needs of small and rural water utilities.
How do higher education institutions, workforce systems, and employers strengthen partnerships to better serve talent pipelines across sectors? Innovate together! Discover detailed approaches, tools, and resources for developing statewide performance data system and creating registered apprenticeships in a non-traditional industry sector (healthcare). Explore adoptable and adaptable apprenticeship and partnership building tools found on California State University-MERLOT SkillsCommons.org.
The purpose of this webinar is to contextualize the performance data America’s Promise grantees submit to the U.S. Department of Labor, as well as give a clear snapshot of what the aggregate America’s Promise performance data looks like with the most recent performance reporting data available.
American Youth Policy Forum & College & Career Readiness & Success (CCRS) Center will host a joint webinar Using Data to Promote Access to High-Quality Work-Based Learning: Tools and Considerations for States
Disability statistics can be a powerful tool to increase our collective understanding of the barriers faced by the disability population in the workforce. This webinar provides an overview of current and historical disability employment trends and highlights how front-line practitioners have successfully applied existing data resources to serve customers.
Please join the U.S. Department of Labor’s Chief
Evaluation Office to learn about how and why we are building evidence
through the America’s Promise evaluation. We will walk through each
component of our planned evaluation, share next steps, and leave plenty
of time for questions and discussion. Our independent evaluator will
also present what we have learned from grantees during our early
knowledge development stage.
Please join us for the H-1B TechHire (TH) webinar on
“Leveraging Labor Market Information to Better Understand Trends in
Tech-Based Careers.” This webinar will provide an opportunity to
better understand how labor market information can offer key insights
into the skills, credentials, and other trends relevant to tech-based
careers under H-1B industries and occupations.
This webinar provides an overview of the guidance
developed jointly by the Departments of Labor and Education (ETA TEGL 26-16, RSA Technical Assistance Circular 17-4, and OCTAE Program Memorandum 17-6) published in June 2017.
The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
(WIOA) relies on robust state workforce and education systems
data to measure performance. Are you engaged with the workforce system,
employers/industry, and higher education to develop data systems that
respond to workforce needs? This presentation will highlight the
diverse approaches that three states are undertaking to create
integrated data systems through partnerships between community colleges
and the workforce system.
Join the U.S. Department of Labor and workforce evaluation and research experts from the state of Ohio to learn about the changing landscape of evidence-based decision making in the public workforce system.
H-1B Ready to Work (RTW) grantees are invited to participate in the upcoming webinar, Data-Driven Decision Making: Tools to Review and Manage Performance, on June 30, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. ET. Participants will learn how performance data can influence program design, as part of a process improvement strategy to assess challenge areas, identify opportunities for improvement, and by making any necessary course-corrections to improve your grants!
On June 22, 2016, from 1:00 – 1:30 PM (EST), the Employment and Training Administration's Division of Youth Services will host a webinar entitled GetMyFuture: Getting Career and Job Information into the Hands of Youth. Webinar participants will get a brief, virtual demonstration of GetMyFuture.org, a mobile-friendly web application (app) that helps youth plan their careers, explore education and training options, and search and apply for jobs.
This session will explore how to understand the nature of an area’s potential workforce, and how demographic and workforce supply data can effect marketing and recruitment. Erin Sullivan, Program Manager from World Business Chicago will share their methodology for understanding the city’s micro-demographics and how they used that information to develop marketing strategies for their “1000 Jobs” manufacturing initiative.
Over the last decade, numerous state and local workforce systems have worked to align and organize their strategies and service delivery around targeted industry sectors and the workforce needs of employers in those sectors. The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) places significant emphasis upon industry sector strategies that are informed by real-time labor market analysis and high-quality labor market information (LMI).
Whether you love data and believe it should drive all policy and decision-making,or find data collection and evaluation overwhelming,this second webinar in our Workforce Innovation Fund stakeholder series is for you! Join Employment and Training Administratoion (ETA) leaders to hear more from our Workforce Innovation Fund grantees who are breaking new ground in this important area.
