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Adopt Oregon's Work Readiness Certificate as part of your company's screening and hiring process (Certificate ready to be implemented in 2007).

Call your region's school district Superintendent and talk about how your company can help connect students to jobs and curriculum to needed skills.

Sponsor an intern or offer a work-based learning experience at your company through the Business Education Compact or other community partner.

Provide at least 20 hours of training for your employees in the next year.

Join a high performance consortium or find out about high performance practices at http://www.nwhpec.org/ or http://www.omep.org/ or your local community college.

Go to the http://www.oregonclusters.org/ Web site and find out about business development activities to support your business cluster.

Talk about your career, profession or trade to students or school guidance counselors.

Establish an apprenticeship program in your company.

Become an industry advisor for a community college technical training program or participate in a consortium related to Oregon's critical occupational needs.

Go to iMatchSkills to post jobs or find workers.

Visit http://www.worksourceoregon.org/ and find out how to access workforce training services and resources in your area.

Ask your community college about a career pathways program to meet your training needs.

Contact your community college Business Development Center for contracted or customized training needs or for enrollment in Business Management Programs.

Team up with other employers in your industry sector to market and attract the high school students and jobseekers.

Support funding for education and skills training to increase workforce skills.

Call your region's school superintendent and talk about how your union can help connect students to jobs and curriculum to needed skills.

Help develop clear paths from high school to apprenticeship programs in your region.

Advocate for at least 20 hours of workplace-based training for your members in bargaining agreements.  Focus training on emerging technologies and high performance skills.

Encourage signatory companies to join high performance consortia or find out about high performance practices at http://www.nwhpec.org/ or http://www.omep.org/ or your local community college.

Talk about your career, profession or trade to students or guidance counselors.

Establish an apprenticeship program in your company.

Become an industry advisor for a community college technical training program or participate in a consortia related to Oregon's critical occupational needs.

Visit http://www.worksourceoregon.org/ and find out how members can access workforce training services and resources in your area.

Support funding for education and skills training to increase workforce skills.

Spend some time exploring career options on the Career Information System website:  http://oregoncis.uoregon.edu/. Think about what skill or job you want and how you might get there.

What's your passion?  Take a class just for fun!

Go to the Oregon Labor Market Information website and look at careers - which ones need college and which have other paths to needed skills?  Would you like to enroll in an apprenticeship program or community college skills training class?  Check out this website: http://www.qualityinfo.org/olmisj/OIC 

Talk to your employer about upgrading your skills.  What new technology has the company purchased?  How can you learn how to use it?  What other skills do you need to advance in your career?

Go to http://www.imatchskills.org/.  Become an imatchskills client.  See what jobs you qualify for, and which jobs you would like.  If you are not quite ready for the job you want, take the classes you need to qualify.

Talk about your career or profession or trade to students or guidance counselors.

Become an advisor for a community college technical training program or participate in a consortium related to state's critical occupational needs.

Visit http://www.worksourceoregon.org/ and find out how you can access workforce training services and resources in your area.

Go to your WorkSource Oregon center and find out how you can get help advancing your career.  Center locations are listed at http://www.worksourceoregon.org/.

Support funding for education and skills training to increase workforce skills.

What do you want to do with your life?  Spend some time exploring career options on the Career Information System website:  http://oregoncis.uoregon.edu/. Think about what kind of work you want to do and how you might get there.

In your educational plan include courses that will equip you with the necessary career skills to be successful in the global marketplace.

Talk to your school guidance counselor about your future career.  Get the most out of your high school experience.  Ask about fast-growing careers in your area, how much you would get paid, and what kind of education and training you will need to have a satisfying career.

What's your passion?  Take a class just for fun!

Find out how you can become a student intern or get some other work-based learning experience in a company in your community.  Learn about jobs in that company, and get a leg up on your career.  Remember, it's almost as important to find out what you don't want to do as it is to find out what you do want to do.

Go to the Oregon Labor Market Information website and look at careers - which ones need college and which ones have other paths to needed skills?  Would you like to enroll in an apprenticeship program or community college skills training class?  http://www.qualityinfo.org/olmisj/OIC.

Go to http://www.imatchskills.org/.  Become an iMatchSkills client.  See what jobs you qualify for, and which jobs you would like.  If you are not quite ready for the job you want, find out how to take the classes you need to qualify.

Visit http://www.worksourceoregon.org/  and find out how you can access workforce training services and resources in your area.

Utilize the Career Information System website:  http://oregoncis.uoregon.edu/ with your students at least once per month.  Another useful career website is ?  http://www.qualityinfo.org/olmisj/OIC 

Spend time in the classroom connecting "book learning" with potential career opportunities.  How might students apply what they are learning to a great job and meaningful work?

Support students with the development of their educational plan to they are equipped with necessary academic and career skills to be successful in advanced education and the global marketplace.

Share lists from your local Oregon Employment Department economist on the current high-demand occupations in your county for students to explore

Support the work of the state Board of Education to increase high school diploma standards -- the future of your students depends on it.

Explore getting a teacher internship during the summer months in a company near you to keep up on industry needs and career opportunities for your students.

Read your college catalog and web page.  Imagine you are a non-credentialed adult thinking about starting school. Can you figure it out? What can your college do to make that easier?

Meet with your local labor economist. Find out the top 20 fastest growing jobs and the top-paying jobs in your region. How many of these occupations require post-secondary training? How can individuals get that training at your college?

Verify that your course offerings and curricula reflect industry recognized skills and current employment opportunities in your region.

Collaborate with your area's high schools to align high school diploma requirements with your college's entrance expectations so students can easily move into advanced education and training.  

Get to know what other community colleges in your part of the state are doing to accelerate or deliver training differently. Can you partner with any of them? Can you try some of the same strategies in your college?

Team with representatives from your economic development, Oregon Employment Dept business services staff, local Workforce Investment Board, and Workforce (WIA Title 1B) providers to identify high-demand occupational needs within your geographic area.  Identify projected clusters & develop customized recruitments and trainings to prepare jobseekers to meet your local employer workforce needs.

Visit several job sites in your region for a tour, particularly those with some of the fastest growing and highest paying jobs requiring post-secondary training. Ask the employers what your college is doing to help them meet labor demands, and what they need more help with.

Form an advisory committee from local business and industry representatives and other area employers to help guide the development of your college programs. Invite them to visit the campus, observe relevant classes and schedule a brown bag lunch with faculty about career pathways to meet identified training needs. Keep them updated regularly by email, phone calls, office visits, conference calls and/or meetings. Listen to them.

Prepare students for the world of work by doing both academic and career counseling.  When possible integrate these two types of counseling.

Refer students to Career Information System developed by U of O.  If your campus doesn't currently subscribe consider doing so.  See http://oregoncis.uoregon.edu/

Use existing relationships with industry - or develop new relationships -- to enhance "work readiness" of your curricula.

Integrate interdisciplinary classes into formal academic programs to increase number of graduates who have valuable "lateral" skills including problem-solving, cultural communications, team work.

Establish or enhance internship programs.

Refer students to http://www.imatchskills.org/ so they can see how college programs relate to careers and to help them find a job while they are still in school.

Encourage students to pursue studies in health care, engineering, accounting, foreign languages and other fields leading to high-demand occupations.

Align exit and entrance requirements between education sectors.

Join the Oregon Workforce Investment Board in a communications campaign to promote the value of education and skills for Oregon and Oregonians to prosper.