How can Workforce Investment System partners use competency models?
Competency models can serve as a bridge for information sharing between workforce investment partners. Working together, postsecondary educators and workforce training providers can partner with employers, industry consortia or trade associations, or labor organizations to define performance levels in the identified competency areas to prepare workers at different career levels. By establishing a baseline for skills required in an industry, competency models can serve as a starting point to evaluate the education and training needs in a community, assess the current organizations and institutions that are addressing those needs, and identify gaps in current education and training offerings. Further, by providing a common language for discussion of regional skill needs, competency models foster industry-education collaboration in developing curricula, planning and assessing career and technical education programs, and developing career pathways of educational courses and programs, as we
Competency models can serve as a bridge for information sharing between workforce investment partners. Working together, postsecondary educators and workforce training providers can partner with employers, industry consortia or trade associations, or labor organizations to define performance levels in the identified competency areas to prepare workers at different career levels. By establishing a baseline for skills required in an industry, competency models can serve as a starting point to evaluate the education and training needs in a community, assess the current organizations and institutions that are addressing those needs, and identify gaps in current education and training offerings. Further, by providing a common language for discussion of regional skill needs, competency models foster industry-education collaboration in developing curricula, planning and assessing career and technical education programs, and developing career pathways of educational courses and programs, as we
