Workforce Connections

Your bi-monthly digest of resources, events, and all things Workforce Development in Lancaster County

June/July 2024 Edition

In the News...

#FreetheData Bill Passes PA Senate

On June 12, 2024 legislation passed the PA Senate to provide workforce boards and stakeholders with enhanced access to timely data from the Commonwealth. This #freethedata movement, spearheaded by the PA Workforce Development Association, will help the Lancaster Board provide better services to job seekers, workers, and businesses with a data based approach more accurately.

LCWDB Partners Recognized for Success

The PA CareerLink Lancaster County was recognized by the Lancaster STEM Alliance with the Business Partnership Award for their work with the students at the School District of Lancaster at the LCSA STEM Awards Banquet in May
Winters Heating & Air LLC was recognized with the Governor's Employer Achievement Award at the Pennsylvania Workforce Development Association Annual Conference.

A New Pathway

If you have stopped by the Lancaster Public Library lately, or one of the 27 public or private high schools, community benefit organizations, or the PA CareerLink® of Lancaster County, you may have seen one of our Educational Kiosks. Situated throughout the county, these educational kiosks provide students and job seekers with easy, interactive access to information about career pathways, training programs, and career opportunities within the county with local businesses. Not only can they use the kiosks on site, QR codes allow for continued access on the go. In partnership with the Lancaster Chamber, four ribbon cutting ceremonies were held to celebrate this initiative. With new information uploaded regularly, the kiosk initiative has allowed students and job seekers alike to explore opportunities they may not have known existed. In the first few months of the initiative, Live Entertainment careers were the most searched category by kiosk users!

Want to know more about our kiosks or the data on careers our users are exploring? Let us know!

Spring kicked off with the Quarterly Connections meeting at Garden Spot Village, where we focused on

'Worforce ReImagined.'

CRL Career Ready Lancaster was happy to support Lancaster County Career & Technology center with their annual Career and Technical Summer Camp. 120 students from 13 school districts participated in a week long camp exposing new career opportunities and inspiring the future workforce.

Join us at ABC Keystone for our next

Quarterly Connections meeting on

July 18th at 5:30pm.

Registration Is Open

Career Ready Lancaster's mission is to develop a quality workforce for a strong local economy in collaboration with education, business, and community partners. Contact us here

Workforce Impact Fact

$1.89 Total Economic Impact for Every $1.00 in WIOA Expenditures

(Source: CWIA, WIOA 2018-2019

Programs make our dollars go farther!

LCWDB Out & About

Being a part of our workforce community AND the local community helps us lead the conversation in workforce for Lancaster County!

Over the past few months our staff:

attended the National Association of Workforce Boards Forum
attended the PA Workforce Development Conference in Hershey
attended the National Association of Workforce Development Professionals conference
Co-lead the Industry Tours for Educators with IU-13
Co-presented as storytellers for our partnership with the Lancaster STEM Alliance, Millersville University, and Precision Cobotics
Represented the board at the Lancaster Chamber Dinner
Supported Lancaster City Alliance at their anniversary breakfast
and so much more!

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Customized LMI Request

View Local Labor Market Data

Did you know?

The Lancaster County Workforce Development Board is your premier source for Labor Market Information (LMI).

Accurate, objective, relevant, timely, and accessible workforce and labor market information is critical for:

• Building a skilled workforce that spurs business competitiveness and economic growth

• Strengthening career pathways and guiding skill attainment for good jobs, economic opportunity, and career growth

• Understanding the rapidly changing nature of work and how it impacts the workforce and U.S. and local economies

• Spending workforce training and education funds effectively.

INDUSTRY DATA

Job Posting Analytics

The top employers hiring in the last 3 months were Aerotek, Penn State Health, and GlaxoSmithKline
Communication remains the most requested 'soft' skill, with Microsoft Office being the top 'hard' skill
Most jobs either had no specified educational requirement or was high school or equivalent

Request LMI Here!

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