PROGRAM GOAL:  Fuel Business Growth in an Advanced Manufacturing Corridor.

 

WDB NEED:  Identify and survey employers about their future needs, including in-demand occupations, skills training priorities, and talent pipeline requirements, to better align workforce resources with industry growth and workforce development efforts.

 

No two projects are alike. EconoVue’s flexible search capabilities empower users to create highly customized search parameters. As a result, users can pinpoint and engage the right businesses for the right programs at the right time.

 

Identify and prioritize outreach to manufacturers currently operating in the corridor. Refine and expand the employer universe within the designated sectors and geography.  Succeed when the local advanced manufacturing ecosystem is surveyed. In addition, the workforce board understands what is required to fuel the talent pipeline and business growth.

 

 

APPRENTICESHIP GOAL:  Discuss career mapping to increase employer sponsor participation. 

 

WDB NEED:  Identify and engage high-potential employers in expansion industries unfamiliar to them. Discuss not only meeting the employers’ needs but also supporting apprentices’ professional goals, thereby improving retention.  

 

EconoVue’s advanced search helps workforce boards build mutually beneficial career pathways tailored to employer needs. It also addresses employee goals, driving stronger participation and long-term success.

 

Identify and engage with the best employer sponsor candidates to encourage apprenticeship participation. Succeed when businesses become employer sponsors and expand the apprenticeship program, providing employees with strong career pathways and a long career trajectory with the company.

 

PROGRAM GOAL:  Layoff aversion proactive outreach to struggling businesses for early intervention.

 

WDB NEED:  Identify and engage with businesses showing increased risk of failure or a decline in business activity.

 

Using EconoVue’s advanced search capabilities, specialized business health indicators, and time-series data, the WDB was able to standardize a process of producing a quarterly report of businesses with increasing risk of contraction or failure, and then prioritize their engagement activity by business size, industry importance, and economic impact. 

 

Identify those businesses with increased risk over the prior quarter, and prioritize their engagement efforts for the most effective impact. Succeed when businesses get the assistance they need – and grow.

 

PROGRAM GOAL:  Source local businesses for ‘Buy Local’ initiative.

 

WDB NEED:  Identify local businesses that could provide commodities & goods currently purchased from “out of county” vendors.  The program’s goal was to shift County spending to local businesses to bolster the local economy.

 

Strong economies bolster a stronger workforce, and collaborative initiatives between economic programs and workforce development support innovative programs such as “Buy Local” initiatives.  EconoVue’s deep data and agile user search abilities enable creativity and innovation across multi-departmental programs.    

 

First, the workforce board internally created an AI-assisted crosswalk to translate commodities to NAICS codes. Next, the workforce board ran a custom NAICS search to identify local businesses in those sectors, AND that were either a Headquarters location or a Single Location business. Target and engage priority candidates for the new program.

 

ENGAGEMENT GOAL:  Develop Business Clusters for Proactive Business Engagement to enable Business Service Team’s Outreach Strategies.

 

WDB NEED:  Launch a ‘Business Walk’ engagement program for businesses on Main Street and the Manufacturing Corridor. Assign by a specific address, or corridor, or industry.

 

For programs that are statewide, or “Main Street Local”, EconoVue provides the data for strategic planning and focused employer engagement. This gives BSRs employer-specific information for engagement prep.    

 

Identify which businesses should be grouped together for the Business Service Teams. Prioritize businesses by address,  corridor, or NAICS. Succeed through early engagement with the right strategies – and companies move forward.

 

 

OUTREACH GOAL:   Conduct Employer Outreach Campaign for Occupational Safety

 

WDB NEED: Proactively engage employers in high‑hazard agriculture, forestry, and farming industries and provide occupational safety resources, education, and support on workplace hazards and labor safety compliance.

 

Actionable employer data is essential to every successful business engagement. EconoVue not only supports workforce programs and economic development but also broader initiatives such as safety education and hazard prevention campaigns.

 

Identify which businesses are in high-hazard industries. Target specific high-hazard industries. Succeed when employers understand the safety measures for workplace hazards.

 

JOB FAIRS GOAL:   Expanding Employer Participation for Monthly Reentry Job Fairs. 

 

WDB NEED:  Increase employer participation and hiring by identifying businesses open to fair chance hiring, with open positions, and close proximity to the job fair location. 

 

By applying disciplined, repeatable search criteria to the monthly reentry job fair program—from fair-chance and open positions to geolocation-based searches—workforce boards can strengthen their outreach strategies. Moreover, they can increase employer participation. As a result, they can secure more job placements for people returning from incarceration.

 

Search for employers in the region that are open to hiring justice-involved individuals. Target healthy and hiring companies and request their participation at local job fairs. Succeed when participating companies hire individuals looking to reenter the marketplace.

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VOCATIONAL PROGRAM GOAL:  Finding Employment Opportunities in a Rural County for Vocational and CTI Graduates.

 

WDB NEED: Identify local employers for Auto Technology program graduates. 

 

Workforce boards often follow a “less is more” approach in targeted outreach programs, but in some situations, “more is more” delivers better results. EconoVue’s ability to expand or narrow searches to match specific program requirements is exactly why we exist.

 

Predict which businesses are growing and hiring in my community. Consider the range of employment opportunities in a rural county offers when identifying these businesses. Target low- and medium-risk businesses in targeted NAICS codes that support the vocational Auto Technology program. Succeed when graduates secure jobs.

 

REGIONAL PLANNING GOAL:  Conduct research for regional workforce planning efforts for the emerging nuclear energy sector. 

 

WDB NEED:  Assess employer demand, understand the current talent pipeline, and align education and training providers to support future workforce needs in nuclear engineering and related occupations.

 

EconoVue’s search capabilities enabled the WDB to quickly build a 360-degree perspective of the nuclear energy sector at the statewide and regional levels, identifying employers, hiring opportunities, and training providers all aligned with a nuclear engineering career pathway.

 

Understand the nuclear energy sector at the statewide and regional levels, identifying employers, hiring opportunities, and training providers all aligned with a nuclear engineering career pathway. Succeed when regional and local plans grow a community.

 

BUSINESS CORRIDORS GOAL:  Finding and Engaging Growing Companies in Specially- Designated Business Corridors.

 

WDB NEED:  Engage strong, growing businesses to further accelerate their growth through workforce support programs.

 

Using EconoVue, workforce boards can adopt a highly-targeted engagement strategy rather than a wide-lens approach, which can better engage employers based on their goals.

 

Connect with growing businesses. Explore hiring, apprenticeship, and workforce development opportunities. Collaborate with the community. partners and job centers in each zip code/corridor. Succeed when businesses in the designated corridor grow.