LadderzUP: a strategic partnership with MCC for regional workforce development.

DATA-DRIVEN JOB DEVELOPMENT

The process of creating a LadderzUP training program begins in consultation with regional industry representatives. MCC recruitment and marketing staff connect with companies that are hiring, as well as the type of employee they are hiring or are having difficulties hiring, and review if there is an insufficient pool of potential workers presently in the market. The MCC team, with assistance from the Monroe County, seeks out companies that would benefit from targeted training, using formal business-to-business best practices. Using this approach, the college has developed and maintained an extensive database of local corporations with whom the college prospects and manages existing relationships. Maintenance of these college-industry partnerships is a high priority with more than 70 percent of the database containing companies with whom the college has worked previously. Another tool used by the MCC group to seek out potential business clients for LadderzUP training as well as provide vital information to both job seekers and industry is a website created by the college’s Economic and Workforce Development Center, mcclmi.com. This homegrown site provides a deep dive into supply and demand analyses for over 23 middle-skilled occupational groups monitoring over 108 technical occupations in the Upstate New York region. Although not specifically designed for LadderzUP, information from the site is leveraged to inform the analysis of career pathways and associated graduate wage progression for related programming.

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