WorkSource Georgia Announced
The Georgia Department of Economic Development Workforce Division launched WorkSource Georgia this morning at a conference in Atlanta. The goal of WorkSource Georgia is to provide a unified brand to Georgia’s 19 Local Workforce Development Areas (LWDA) and better connect job seekers with careers in our state’s largest industries. Expect to see WorkSource Georgia branding throughout the state.
As always, GeorgiaPol.com commends the hard work and dedication of the Economic Development staff. They do incredible work to bring jobs to our state and to cultivate a world-class workforce.
The full press release is below the fold.
ATLANTA, August 1, 2016 – The Georgia Department of Economic Development’s Workforce division launched WorkSource Georgia today at the 2016 Georgia Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Convening. This new statewide unified brand was created to align the resources of Georgia’s workforce system, in order to more effectively connect job seekers with careers in the state’s leading industries.
“Georgia has 19 Local Workforce Development Areas (LWDAs) that work tirelessly, year-round, to administer first-class services to job seekers,” said GDEcD Workforce Division Deputy Commissioner Ben Hames. “After meeting with every LWDA and our state-level partners, we found that this unified brand was needed to help further align our efforts into highlighting strong training and educational opportunities that lead to employment.”
WorkSource Georgia, the first unified brand ever associated with Georgia’s workforce system, targets job seekers, workforce development practitioners, education leaders and citizens at large. The brand’s tagline “Connecting Talent with Opportunity” promotes the state’s workforce development efforts.
The statewide brand, developed in partnership with The Blue Sky Agency, also features nineteen unique brands to represent each of the state’s nineteen LWDAs. Using WIOA funding, the GDEcD Workforce Division will provide financial support to each LWDA in the implementation and adoption of the new brand.
Jobseekers should expect to see the WorkSource Georgia and local WorkSource logos appear throughout the state in the coming months.
About the GDEcD Workforce Division:
The Georgia Department of Economic Development’s Workforce Division administers the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) under the leadership of the State Workforce Development Board with the ultimate goal of improving the quality and marketability of Georgia’s workforce to meet the needs of business. WIOA services are administered through nineteen Local Workforce Development Areas (LWDAs) that are positioned within each economic development region in Georgia. Core partners of the GDEcD Workforce Division include: The Georgia Department of Labor, the Technical College System of Georgia and the Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency.
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Will Kremer
Will is an active member of the Georgia Republican grassroots. He previously served as Chairman of the Georgia Association of College Republicans, 2nd Vice Chairman of the 7th District Republican Party, and Treasurer of the Forsyth County Republican Party. Promise Land = Forsyth County.
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Reads like support for anything but work and to supplement the failures of education, SNAP, rehab, disability, schools just milking tuition loans…..
Why a department with a lot of broad fluff ? Give the money to the vocational and trade schools. Teach a trade.
Like – http://www.chattahoocheetech.edu
Nah, Hillary has a better idea, government largess to destroy or subjugate the next generation. And a scared GOP plays along because it beats someone saying pull up your big boy pants.
Replace the negative word Hillary with ” bureaucrats”
You can’t put everything into one press release. Part of Workforce Development’s mission is the High Demand Career Initiative, which seeks to work with employers to identify what type of job skills are most needed in Georgia and to work with Georgia’s technical colleges to ensure they offer the training needed to provide those skills for employers.
You reinforce my cynicism. We squander great opportunities to take the Political “form a commission/committee” road to hell.
You Hilleristas make me cynical and sad.
Bernie had it right: Free education for everyone!
Bring that up at your next workshop at the Cloister on Sea Island and be sure to take a dinner boat cruise to observe the crabbers and fishermen.
nah, this effort should get more people into the tech schools, maybe even identify new lines of curricula. it could help ppl find a pair of pants that they can then pull up. we bureaucrats call this “increasing effectiveness” of “implementation”.
Solutions: a program is ready when the “economic development” mood strikes –
make use of a great and proven process, the ASVAB for 10, 11, 12 grades to give them direction, purpose and also develop loans and scholarships to vocational schools and colleges.
@Saltycracker:
‘Tis far better for you to limit your negative comments to things that you are knowledgeable about, preferably something that you have first-hand or reputable second-hand information, or at least have bothered to take the time to research yourself.
When I was laid off during the great recession, my local (Atlanta, imagine that!) workforce development gave me great advice on what programs to study at my local trade school (again, imagine that) which led to my new career path that I am still on. They did the same with several of my friends, relatives and former coworkers. Some of us are doing better financially than we were before we were initially laid off (working in Atlanta and during the Obama economy, again imagine that a third time).
One of the dumb things about the workforce development program at the time was the lack of coordination. Similar to public school zoning, one could only go to the workforce development agency that served your geographic area according to where you lived, not where you wanted to seek employment. And the programs at various workforce development agencies varied because they were dependent upon the educational institutions and employers who partnered with a specific workforce development agency. So a person living in Fulton would not be able to take advantage of the opportunities offered at the Gwinnett WDA and vice versa. Which – of course – puts the people stuck in a WDA in a rural or economically depressed area at a disadvantage. If this effort results in the same programs and services being offered to all jobseekers regardless of which WDA they are stuck with, or allows a jobseeker to pursue workforce development help from any WDA regardless of wherever they live, that would be a real improvement. However, if this is merely “branding” and some centralized jobs listing database (which already existed anyway via the Georgia Department of Labor website) then that would be exceedingly disappointing.
So you are reading it “like support for anything but work and to supplement the failures of education, SNAP, rehab, disability, schools just milking tuition loans” merely because you choose to. As for “Give the money to the vocational and trade schools. Teach a trade.” that is already primarily what they are doing. The folks who go there are already receiving unemployment because it is a requirement to sign up. So you can’t be a “professional student” or someone else just evading work to get help via WDF. Another thing: the program DOES NOT send people to get master’s degrees in liberal arts obscurantism. It is designed to get you back to work as quickly as possible while utilizing as few of the program’s funds as possible, so they prefer vocational training certificates in high demand areas like healthcare. They rarely if ever send people to a 4 year college, and if they do it is for something like nursing.
As for your “milking tuition loans” nonsense: that is just more southern conservatives griping over “those people” being able to attend college now and get actual managerial and professional jobs instead of the good ole’ days. Well, Jim Crow is over, so that means UGA and Georgia Tech accepts anyone who is able to meet the admissions requirements. Which means no more automatically shunting a certain percentage of the population off to the local Booker T. Washington normal trade school anymore. Those days aren’t coming back no matter how badly certain people want it to. And by the way … the Georgia economy is now MUCH BETTER than it was back then. In the “good ole days” poverty rates were sky high, not just in Georgia but all over the southeast. And high school graduation rates were far lower. I am not a Hillary Clinton fan or voter either – I will probably sit this one out – but those “big boy pants” that you and your ilk romanticize about were dilapidated overalls with empty pockets for everybody but the mill and plantation owners.
So if you are unable to know something about what you are speaking of, then please exercise prudence, humility and self-control by remaining silent.
Congratulations on your advantaging some excellent offerings. Your approach was positive and too many miss that. I am a fan of branding however, my concern, from years of “branding” and these type of multi-layered marketing approaches will not say, bring us the 232,ooo welders needed now in the US. I prefer to utilize those we have more efficiently. This seems to be another level of many Departments above the professionals in the LWDAs.
No I am not expert, it is too complex, but I believe the people and resources like ASVAB, tech schools, colleges, are there now. How many chiefs and consultants would you like ?
http://blueskyagency.com/about/
it’s like you deliberately chose not to comprehend anything he said. interesting…
I ignored his insults. Did he not speak as a benefactor of a program and how much better the GA economy is…..I said that was good. Did I not express appreciation for our tech schools, mention testing options and voice concern for a piling on of committees, bureaucratic departments and consultants along with a need for results as we have a growing legion of those left behind ? The street level view isn’t always clear.