The Workforce Strategy provides direction for a coordinated and effective response to urgent talent issues stemming from rapid economic globalization, integration of technology into all occupations, and dramatic demographic change. We aim to elevate the operations of our workforce system to meet those challenges. The Strategy does not address related challenges such as worker housing, access to childcare
, and transportation; while important, these issues are being taken up by other initiatives. The Workforce Strategy is the result of a rewarding collaboration between the County’s economic development and workforce development agencies. While Tompkins County Area Development and the Workforce Investment Board have a history of working together to address business and workforce development needs, this project has served to deepen our understanding of shared policy issues and goals. Economic development and workforce development will continue to work hand in hand going forward.
We are very please to offer The Tompkins County Workforce Strategy to the community as a road map for workforce development in these critical times. It is our belief that the Strategy will help individuals and employers reach greater success, and that will drive the success of the local economy.
We are pleased to make the both the full Tompkins County Workforce Strategy (with interactive table of contents, viewpoints, and list of figures) as well as the Executive Summary available for download.
For related documents see the Framework for the Tompkins Workforce Strategy 2009, the
