STATE Oklahoma
SYNOPSIS Alignment of Oklahoma local labor market industry with labor
force skill sets using an Internet based self-service application.
A strategic model was developed to support Oklahoma's comprehensive workforce development system. This model identified the need for a skill alignment process, which would identify and align Oklahoma business skill needs with local labor force skill sets. This process would then feed into a skill development process as well as a refined labor exchange process. The skill development process would allow for the creation of appropriate skills development opportunities for emerging, incumbent and transitional workers. The refined labor exchange process would foster the creation of employment opportunities with prospective employees to create a successful job match
Through these processes, employers are provided with an unprecedented opportunity to implement a skills management system that defines work, worker, and workplace characteristics; allows workers to identify work-based skill gaps; and maps the worker learning needs to a local training /education facility.
TARGET
AUDIENCE Oklahoma
businesses
Oklahoma procured a vendor, SkillsNET, to
develop an application that is customized to meet the local needs of Oklahoma
industry. The Oklahoma Internet Job
Profiler, called OK SkillsNET, is a self-service tool that offers a fast
solution of profiling worker requirements and identifying precision learning
needs in a dynamic workplace. Worker requirements include knowledge, skills,
abilities and tasks/tools (KSATS) to perform the job. The employer has three levels to select when profiling a job.
Ok SkillsNET handles the entire profiling
process with each level having various outputs, including critical tasks, core
skills and abilities, experience, and credentialing requirements, management
reporting and analysis. Further it
allows individuals to develop critical task performance and identify training
needs.
The
Business Opportunities:
Ø Better
access to job profile data through fast creation of views and reports.
Ø Engage
all workers in a process and improve corporate performance capacity.
Ø Improve
worker productivity.
Ø Reduce
cost of workforce development.
Ø Improve
skill and knowledge acquisition investment decisions.
Ø Important
skill information and corporate knowledge are not lost.
Ø Establish
corporate skills-based yellow pages.
Ø Provide
current and emerging skill needs that can be fed directly into the educational
system to improve emerging workers capacity.
The
Business Benefits:
Ø Better
alignment of worker skills to work to be performed.
Ø Turns
what have traditionally been separate processes into a continuous closed-loop
system for management planning and control.
Ø Enables
companies to identify top skill and knowledge requirements.
Ø Training
budgets can be easily revised in response to change, and rolling skill
development forecasts easily prepared.
Ø Savings
from reuse of profile data for third-party applications.
Ø Improve
corporate agility and responsiveness to market demands.
Ø Improve
recruiting, selection and readiness processes.
Ø Generate
detailed job descriptions with task-level company specific data.
Ø Generate
a wide array of Local Labor Market Intelligence reports as well as company
specific job or task level reports based of varying criteria such as level of
criticality, frequency and time needed to learn.
Ø A
hosted application, which can offer immediate, cost benefits.
OK SkillsNET provides consolidated view of
KSAT information that would otherwise be spread across a multitude of different
resources. Pulling all of this together
into a single view creates one set of accurate information that is easily
accessed and will, therefore, produce better reports, more accurate training
plans and greater efficiency.
The magnitude of the OK SkillsNET system to conduct
job/tasks analysis (JTA) and use existing and new occupational information will
benefit local Oklahoma business, improve Oklahoma's economic development
processes, and deliver more timely, accurate information to workforce and
educational development partners.
OK
SkillsNET is currently in pilot stages of implementation, being tested in three
of the twenty-seven Oklahoma local labor markets. Statewide implementation is scheduled this summer with the
integration of an integrated labor exchange application. With this three-tier application in place,
Oklahoma should realize a more viable workforce development infrastructure and
employers should reap those benefits.
OTHER COMMENTS
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OK SkillsNET at www.okskills.net.