Rochester Area Skill Needs Assessment and Business Climate Survey, September 2013

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T ABLE OF C ONTENTS

Purpose ..................................................................................................................................... i

Business Climate .......................................................................................................................................... ii

Persistently Unfilled Positions ................................................................................................................iii

Policy Implications........................................................................................................................................ iv

Acknowledgements ...................................................................................................................................... iv

Table of Contents..................................................................................................................... v

Introduction.............................................................................................................................. 1

The Middle-Skills Gap ................................................................................................................................... 1

Finger Lakes’ Middle-Skills Workers............................................................................................................. 1

Methodology............................................................................................................................. 3

Data Collection .............................................................................................................................................. 3

Respondent Profile........................................................................................................................................ 3

Findings.................................................................................................................................... 5

Business Climate .......................................................................................................................................... 5

Employment .................................................................................................................................................. 6

Persistently Unfilled Positions ....................................................................................................................... 7

How many positions are persistently unfilled? ....................................................................................... 7

Which occupations are in short supply? ................................................................................................. 7

What level of training is required for unfilled positions? ......................................................................... 9

Why are positions unfilled?................................................................................................................... 10

What’s the policy response?................................................................................................................. 11

Employee Training ...................................................................................................................................... 12

Who provides training? ......................................................................................................................... 12

What subject does the training cover? ................................................................................................. 12

How is the training provided? ............................................................................................................... 13

Training Preferences ............................................................................................................................ 15

Appendix .................................................................................................................................17

Survey Result Tables .................................................................................................................................. 17

Survey Instrument ..................................................................................................................32

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