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Career
Ladders
Building
Career Ladders for Low-Wage Workers: A "How To" Manual
for Workforce Development Practitioners and Partners More
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The Career Ladders Initiative is designed to meet entry-level, incumbent workers' needs for opportunities to advance toward positions with more responsibility, skill, and compensation, and employers' needs to recruit and retain a skilled, highly trained workforce.
The Initiative has developed effective strategies to create career ladder models in targeted industries, and assist workers and employers to implement them.
The Boston Workforce Development Coalition, in conjunction with The Center for Community Economic Development at the University of Massachusetts Boston, has prepared five reports on career ladders:
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Opportunities in Greater Boston's Financial Services Industry
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Opportunities in Greater Boston's Health Services Industry
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Opportunities in Greater Boston's Telecommunications Industry
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Career Ladder Strategies Best Practices in the Telecommunications Industry
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Career Ladder Strategies Best Practices in the Long-Term Care Industry
These reports are designed to help anyone involved in workforce development-employers, training providers, career counselors, and policy makers-understand career ladders and their importance to Massachusetts's economy, how to create them, and how to sustain them.
These publications are $10 each, or all 5 for $40. To order, go to Publications.
August, 2002: Career Ladders in Boston: A Summary of Recent Progress — Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat
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Join the Career Ladders Committee
Are you interested in helping make sure that low-income community residents don't get stuck in dead-end jobs, but have opportunities for advancement at work?
The Coalition's Career Ladders Committee has been working for two years to develop and promote career ladders for entry-level workers. The purpose of the Committee is to help develop opportunities for low-income and entry-level workers to move up to better-paying, more responsible and skilled positions.
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We work with employers and business groups to assist them in developing pathways, structures, training and support for workers to move up.
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We encourage employers to invest in their current workforce by putting career ladders in place, retaining and better utilizing their current workers.
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We have been effective in persuading many of them that their dollars may be better spent training, encouraging, and promoting their current workers than on recruiting and hiring new workers constantly in a "revolving door" for entry-level workers.
Over the past year, the Career Ladders Committee has focused on two different sectors of the economy: Long-Term Care and Telecommunications. In both sectors, we have effectively partnered with employer groups, and are developing the pathways that workers and employers need in place to support career ladders.
Our research partner, the Center for Community Economic Development at UMass Boston, has conducted significant labor market research for us, which has been published in a series of reports that inform our work.
The Career Ladders Committee includes about 50 community-based organizations, unions, public agencies and employers who meet together every month to plan the Coalition's career ladders work. The Committee meets on the third Thursday of the month from 9:00-10:30 A.M. at the Coalition office at 165 Brookside Ave. Ext., Jamaica Plain.
The co-chairs are Claudia Green and Sarah Griffen. We welcome your participation in the Career Ladders Committee and either subcommittee. Please join the Career Ladders Committee, and tell others about it!
Laurie Sheridan, Executive Director, BWDC.JP@verizon.net
Boston
Workforce Development Coalition
165 Brookside Ave. Extension
Jamaica Plain MA 02130
Tel:
617-524-8888 ext 138
FAX:
617-524-4939
