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Minnesota’s career, education, and job resource. The Training Resource Center (TRC) is a web-based tool that allows counselors, employers, and the general public to quickly find or request training to help Minnesotans become reemployed.TRANSCRIPT
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Training Resource Center Overview for Training Providers
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Minnesota’s career, education, and job resource. www.iseek.org
Training Resource Center “will offer the opportunity for workforce staff to serve their clients more effectively through current information on programs available and the option of requesting particular training.
For educational institutions, the center will offer a communications tool for promoting openings in existing programs and courses and a means to help create new training offerings when demand for training of specific kinds is identified.”
Vice Chancellor Linda Baer, 2/13/09
Minnesota’s career, education, and job resource. www.iseek.org
The Training Resource Center (TRC) is a web-based tool that allows counselors, employers, and the general public to quickly find or request training to help Minnesotans become reemployed.
Minnesota’s career, education, and job resource. www.iseek.org
• Partnership: Co-sponsored by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development and Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
• Funding: $400,000 for a 2-year, phased project through a Minnesota Job Skills Partnership grant
• Infrastructure: Leverage redesigned ISEEK framework and previous Training Fulfillment Center (TFC)
Minnesota’s career, education, and job resource. www.iseek.org
Business Need/Drivers:• Near term:
– Recession– Overwhelming demand for reemployment
services• Ongoing:
– Increasing demand for human capital in a global economy
– Opportunity to exploit technology advances
Minnesota’s career, education, and job resource. www.iseek.org
Vision of TRC:• Help over-extended counselors to find and
request training for their clients• Provide workers with training that results in
work-related credential or test preparation• Inform counselors and training institutions of
demand-driven training needs • Support employer/counselor/educator
communication and partnerships to address skill gaps
Minnesota’s career, education, and job resource. www.iseek.org
Phase 1 -May 2009:Targeted audiences are:
●Career counselors and resource area staff (DEED-sponsored programs and certified providers)●Training providers (Minnesota State Colleges and Universities and the University of Minnesota)
Re-launch of the 2002 Training FulfillmentCenter with modest enhancements
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Short-Term Procedures:When counselors request training, TRCwill e-mail that request to the regional training representative(s).
● Training representatives, review requests and respond within two to three business days● Confirm the training request by contacting the counselor directly (please cc: TRC)
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Common responses from training representatives: ● provide information of current work-related training that is specific to the requested occupation or industry● discuss past training that can be offered with enough participants● offer possible new training that can be offered with enough participants
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Next Steps in Phase 1:• TRC to communicate with local training providers and counselors about launch• Fine tune the communication, requestsand response processes• Manual aggregation of training requests • Test the counselor network for possible expansion – social network for you? • Best practices forum: learn from eachother
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Revisit past TFC successes
Characterize workers to match with training • What information do you need from counselors? • What you would add to it (e.g., job profiling analysis)? • What is most helpful from you to develop training?Identification of skill and work competencies• Provides information on gaps relative to occupations indemand• Use this list to pool candidates and create training
Minnesota’s career, education, and job resource. www.iseek.org
Phase 2: Expanded audiences & enhancements
• Targeted audiences are: – Counselors– Employers– Training providers – General public
• User-centered design• In May, TRC staff will survey these groups
to identify needs• Enhancements will roll out starting in June
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Phase 2: Vision and Enhancements• Improve upon past TFC successes• Online communication system to create groups
based on users’ needs• Automated aggregator /training matching system• Skill gap assessment to help identify training
needs• Integration with online tools (e.g., ISEEK’s
education data, MnWorks, MnSCU registration, financial aid, etc.)
Minnesota’s career, education, and job resource. www.iseek.org
Discussion and Q/A:• What does success look like for you?
– TRC usefulness increases with the extent to which it is used
– Dependent on incorporation into business practices: technology is only an enabler
• Issues with TFC: what worked, what didn’t• What do we need to know from you?• What we need from you: ongoing
feedback
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“Minnesota State Colleges and Universitiesis in a unique position to significantlycontribute to the recovery of the state’s economy and your efforts are greatly appreciated.”
Vice Chancellor Linda Baer (2/13/09)
Minnesota’s career, education, and job resource. www.iseek.org
For more information, contact: Shelia Cunningham McCombProject Coordinator [email protected]
Minnesota’s career, education, and job resource. www.iseek.org
How to use the Training Resource Center: The following slides provide a demonstration of TRC features for training providers.• Use Online Forms to promote your work-related
training openings• See Work-related Training Openings – what else
is being offered? • Respond to counselors’ training requests• TRC Help: Contact Us, What’s New?, and find
training materials
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• Show Training Reps Menu
Minnesota’s career, education, and job resource. www.iseek.org
• Training Option Form
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• Work-related Training Openings - details
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• Respond to Counselors Directly
