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Orange RPU 2023 Biennial Modification to PY 2021-24 Regional Plan <br /> <br />37 <br /> <br /> <br />3. The workforce system should provide support to businesses of all types and sizes <br />in becoming trainers. Many businesses could benefit from providing work-based <br />instruction to new employees but need assistance in implementing effective <br />models. <br /> <br />4. The workforce system partners should more closely collaborate with the K-12 <br />system to increase the availability of workforce preparation information and <br />activities for students. <br /> <br />5. Schools, parents, and the workforce development system can better inform young <br />people about the full range of career pathways, including jobs that don’t require a <br />college degree. <br /> <br />Business-Focused Strategies <br /> <br />Many of the stakeholders providing input during the development of the 2023 Biennial <br />Modification to the Regional Plan addressed matters regarding the various ways in which <br />the workforce system provides support to businesses and how the pandemic has affected <br />the needs of businesses with regard to training, hiring, and retaining new and existing <br />workers. <br /> <br />6. Workforce system partners should take a more consultative approach in working <br />with businesses, providing advisement and recommending strategies drawn from <br />the partners’ broad experience working with both demand and supply side <br />customers. <br /> <br />7. Businesses need support not just with recruitment but with job retention. <br />Businesses are experiencing tremendous costs from newly hired workers leaving <br />companies within the first weeks or months of employment. Workforce system <br />partners should provide companies with tools, strategies, and recommendations <br />for messaging. <br /> <br />8. While many older workers have stayed in or returned to the workforce due to the <br />pandemic, the impending threat of a “silver tsunami” is affecting more industries <br />and job classifications. The regional workforce system should assess the worker <br />replacement needs of their business customers and develop industry-specific <br />strategies to recruit and prepare a pipeline of new workers. <br /> <br />9. Nearly all major industries and occupations are facing worker shortages. <br />Businesses need support from the full range of workforce system partners in <br />addressing these shortages and developing short- and long-range strategies. <br /> <br />10. The use of technology by businesses accelerated during the pandemic, but training <br />for workers in technology skills has not consistently kept pace. The system <br />EXHIBIT 1