Quality Jobs Framework - Actionable Strategies That Businesses, Municipalities, Workforce Boards, and Others Can Adopt to Advance Quality Jobs

Wednesday, November 9, 2022

1:10 PM – 2:10 PM

Location: Northwest 2

Lead Presenter(s)

Darcy Hoffman

Director of Business Services
Workforce Southwest Washington (WSW)

Co-Presenter(s)

Narek Daniyelyan (he/him/his)

Assistant Vice Chancellor for Strategic Partnerships
Washington State University
Julia Maglione (she/her/hers)

Director of Communications
Workforce Southwest Washington (WSW)

Presentation Purpose & Goal: Job quality – everyone is talking about it, and some are acting on it. In this session, Workforce Southwest Washington (WSW) will speak to their experience and process to define quality jobs, provide guidance on standards employers can and should adopt, identify resources to help employers implement and develop a roadmap of actions and implementation steps. As a bi-state, six-county labor market, WSW will share specific and successful examples of actions workforce boards can take to improve job quality in their own regions.

Learning Objectives:

A different way for workforce boards to engage with the business community through a quality jobs lens including using a quality jobs "program" as a strategy to support employee recruitment and retention
Strategies to position workforce equity and incorporate job quality, including higher wage placements, into subcontracts
Strategies to increase social capital and professional work experience for diverse and emerging leaders (Opportunity Youth and college students) while identifying and supporting the best employers in your community