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The Ohio Skills Bank
William RussellAssociate Vice Chancellor, Ohio Board of Regents
Thomas FellrathFormer Director, Ohio Skills Bank
“Turnaround Ohio”
Develop the
Ohio Skills Bank Program
Through a competitive grants process, provide significant flexible funding to regional industry sector training consortia to provide skills training and support to industry sectors facing critical skills shortages. This will be funded through WIA discretionary funding.
Key Challenges
1. How to create regional skills collaboratives?
2. How to prioritize which industries demanded more immediate attention?
3. How to determine where skill shortages were most acute?
For this presentation, we will disregard #1.
Build on what works
o Occupational Supply-Demand System (OSDS)– www.occsupplydemand.org
– Revolutionary way to compare state occupational demand data with state education production data
o OSDS wasn’t organized to determine regional talent supply disparities
Data Alignment – 242 unique combinations!
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Ohio Skills Bank data tool
o Workforce data: US Department of Labor; Ohio Bureau of Labor Market Information
o Education data: Ohio Board of Regentso Built on Ohio’s 12 “Economic Development Regions”o www.tr.im/ohioskillsbank
– Publicly accessible – Transparent planning
Geography Matters: MSAs v. EDRs
Ohio Economic Development Regions
Prioritization, not policy
o Ohio BLMI and Board of Regents already shared datao BLMI took the lead in designing the web interfaceo Management leadership pushed this project ahead of others
Design Barriers
o Designing a logical interface– Appropriate data points
– Smart logic flow
o Encapsulating all of the “small print” points while making the site user-friendly
o Adapting Statewide/MSA-centric data to Ohio’s 12 regionso SUPPRESSED DATA
Data Barriers - Education
o Site designed in 2008o OBOR data was on 2007 graduates
– Schools had total freedom on CIP code assignments (inconsistent)
– CIP code assignments often followed education funding formula
– Career centers and some private schools were inconsistent in filing CIP code reports
Data Barriers - Workforce
o USDoL/Ohio BLMI data reflected 2004 workforce incl. 2004-2014 projections
– 2008 economic crash not accounted for
– USDoL published statewide projections for 2006-2016, but BLMI prioritized subdividing by MSA over 12 regions
o USDoL data only tracks private sector employment– No government employment other than at the aggregate level
– No military employment (BRAC implications)
o SUPPRESSED DATA
State’s Message to Regions
o The OSB Data Tool presents more – and better – data than they have ever seen before
o The data presented is NOT perfecto Regions should verify all data locally – both education
production and labor force demando Regions should incorporate credible third party labor market
research as appropriate
Project Leadership
o Ohio Bureau of Labor Market Information– Dr. Keith Ewald, Director
– Mark Schaff (OSDS liasion)
– Dr. Lewis Horner (Project lead)
– Brian Baker (Website developer)
o Ohio Board of Regents– Bill Wagner (Higher Education Information system liaison)
– Tom Fellrath (fmr. Director, Ohio Skills Bank)
Results
o Project delays on “human side” led to initial focus on health care delivery in each region
o Each region has deeper understanding of education needs (oversupply?) for major health occupational clusters
o Serves as platform for meaningful planning – Stemming the glut of students in a given field
– Determine need to import grads or start new programs to meet demand
– Build communication links between aligned programs and medical providers
Essential Elements
o Good data – both education and workforceo Simple yet flexible interfaceo Regional staff that is comfortable with analysis of sometimes
ambiguous datao Practice, practice, practice!
Suggested Revisions
o Improved standardization of school reporting of CIP codeso Subdivide most recent USDoL data more quicklyo Investigate any state-specific data sets that could replace
“older” Federal datao Website improvements
– Multiple region reports
– State reports
Timeline
o Jan. 2008 – Ohio Skills Bank started at Ohio Board of Regentso Feb. 2008 – Data Tool need identified, development
commencedo May 2008 – Data Tool website launched
– Dynamic format (website) allowed fastest possible implementation
– Updates ongoing
• Hot-swapping in the most recent data sets
• Improved data presentation based on user feedback
Your Presenters
Bill RussellAssociate Vice ChancellorOhio Board of Regents30 E. Broad St., 36th Fl.Columbus, OH 43204
(614) [email protected]
Tom FellrathFrmr. Director, Ohio Skills Bank8031 Griswold Dr.New Albany, OH 43054
(614) [email protected]
The Ohio Skills Bank
William RussellAssociate Vice Chancellor, Ohio Board of Regents
Thomas FellrathFormer Director, Ohio Skills Bank
