Is the department adequately resourced to remold the workforce from a manufacturing to a service and knowledge economy?
A. Maybe one of the misnomers is that manufacturing is actually going away. What I see at Workforce Development is that it’s changing. It’s requiring a new and higher skill set of our workers than what we’ve seen in the past, and DWD is changing the way we do business in order to account for that. What used to be maybe a manual process on a factory floor is becoming an individual having to program a CNC machine for example, and the machine actually does that manual process now, and the individual now needs a whole new skill set that they maybe didn’t need in the past, and that skill set is related to understanding and being able to program computers. So what we’ve been working to do in conjunction with Ivy Tech (Community College) and other training providers, both for an incumbent worker and for an unemployed worker, is to be able to take those workers and get them through that next level of skill set, that next training. So that an individual who used to make a part by physically, ma
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