Chris Benner and Workforce Learning Strategies presents the first of two proposed webinars discussing the economic and labor market analysis data for selected NFWS sites. For stakeholders involved with the NFWS, this data is likely to be most useful when it is treated as simply one window into understanding a regional economy. It should be supplemented with other detailed information on particularly regional markets and industry, such as that obtained through talking with employers, industry specialists, and other local labor market experts.
The Benchmarking Project of Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) seeks to help organizations answer questions about their job placement program, retention results, etc. and in the longer term to identify meaningful outcome benchmarks for the workforce development field, so that practitioners, funders and, policymakers can be better informed about what constitutes “good” performance when working with diverse populations and service delivery strategies.