1 U.S. Department of Labor/ Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing & Regulation Career Pathways Institute Baltimore City & Baltimore County Maryland Legislature & Governor Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing & Regulation EARN Legislation, April 2013 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.

Increasing Automation – Need Skills Global Competition – Need Productivity Aging Workforce – Need New Workers Short Product Lifecycles– Rapid Retraining 2 Employer Perspective on Why Employers Care About Desperately Need Workforce Development

1972 – HP 35 Pocket Calculator 1976 – Cincinnati Milacron leads CNC Production 1957 – Ross and Pople at MIT g-code & APL Programming Language 1952 – John Parsons Patent for CNC, patent number 2,820, – Chuck Hull patents Sereolithography U.S. Patent 4,575, – Japan CNC production surpasses Germany 1979 – German CNC production surpasses U.S. Workforce-Technology Evolution 1961 – Integrated Circuit Patent Award 2007 – I Phone Introduced 201? – Semantic web routine machine-to-machine disparate data transfers 1950 – MIT Servo lab uses Punch Tape with a milling machine 2003 – NIST EMC2 Open Source Code 1982 – AutoCAD First Release 1975 – Microsoft Founded 1965 – DEC PDP-8 microcomputer 1998 – Google Founded 200,000 Years of Manufacturing Labor DARPA crowd sourced design experiments 2009 – China Leads Machine Tool Production 3

Baltimore County & City Manufacturing Career Pathway 4 Elementary & Middle Schools High Schools Community Colleges Universities Greater student & parent awareness of manufacturing career options Revamp high school VOTECH to include advanced manufacturing technology for tomorrow’s highly paid workers Skills training for today & tomorrow’s manufacturing workforce Reintroduce manufacturing engineering as a major Displaced & Unemployed Programs Industry Internships & Mentoring Growth in Maryland Manufacturing Workforce

Why to employers need to be at the table? partners Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. Henry Ford 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

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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