Workforce Solutions is working to help area employers address current and future labor shortages in key industries. These industries are being identified by their rapid growth, as well as by verifiable current or projected labor shortages in high-skill, high-wage occupations.

Workforce Solutions initially works to help these industries reduce immediate workforce needs by matching qualified workers with key positions, helping with their work place restructuring efforts, and providing access to education and skills training for incumbent workers. Workforce Solutions also provides employers with labor expertise to solve issues affecting future critical labor shortages by

• addressing how businesses can ensure low turnover rates, and
• improving the quality of their work environment.

Workforce Solutions helps employers through organized industry work groups or steering committees. An example of its success in organizing and coordinating industry initiatives is in the Health Services industry, where it has worked to reduce the registered nurse, nurse faculty and other critical need health care employee crises.