LIVE Community Town Hall – Workforce Ready: The Future Is Now (from ThinkTV - PBS Studio)

Every morning across our region, thousands of people go to work.

They construct.

They care for people.

They create.

They invent solutions.

And now, increasingly, they are preparing for jobs and careers that may look very different from those in the workforce a generation before them.

This indeed is a brave

new world.

There's a lot of jobs out there.

There's still a lot of competition out there.

So it's trying to find the right people to fill the right positions.

We have a lot of healthcare programs that are great.

I feel like there's a lot more opportunities around this region where we're at in Ohio.

The region's economy has momentum, but as in-demand fields grow, they're facing a potential shortage of skilled workers.

that comes down to a supply and demand issue.

The available labor supply does not meet the demand for that pool.

And so as we think about the changing demographics of our region, as we think about what those pressure points are, how do we continue to ensure that those companies and those employers have the workforce that they need?

But workforce readiness is bigger than filling open jobs.

It's about creating opportunity.

It's about helping people see a future for themselves right here in our region.

And it's about making sure that education, business, government, and community organizations are not working in isolation, but working together.

The really good news in our region is that we have a very robust pipeline.

And our challenge is trying to figure out how to keep that pipeline here.

We

invite industry to our classrooms so it's ever-changing and it's always evolving.

Every morning across our region, thousands of people go to work.

They construct.

They care for people.

They create.

They invent solutions.

And now, increasingly, they are preparing for jobs and careers that may look very different from those in the workforce a generation before them.

This indeed is a brave

new world.

There's a lot of jobs out there.

There's still a lot of competition out there.

So it's trying to find the right people to fill the right positions.

We have a lot of healthcare programs that are great.

I feel like there's a lot more opportunities around this region where we're at in Ohio.

The region's economy has momentum, but as in-demand fields grow, they're facing a potential shortage of skilled workers.

that comes down to a supply and demand issue.

The available labor supply does not meet the demand for that pool.

And so as we think about the changing demographics of our region, as we think about what those pressure points are, how do we continue to ensure that those companies and those employers have the workforce that they need?

But workforce readiness is bigger than filling open jobs.

It's about creating opportunity.

It's about helping people see a future for themselves right here in our region.

And it's about making sure that education, business, government, and community organizations are not working in isolation, but working together.

The really good news in our region is that we have a very robust pipeline.

And our challenge is trying to figure out how to keep that pipeline here.

We

invite industry to our classrooms so it's ever-changing and it's always evolving.