Helping Economic Development
A quality workforce is one of the single most important factors for competitiveness. Driven by a fast moving, knowledge-based economy and the necessity for skilled workers in a more dynamic and volatile labor market, the business of workforce development is constantly changing. As the world navigates life post-pandemic, workforce and economic development will be pushed to the forefront. The Great Resignation, as many are naming it, will call in to question the predicted workforce development trends.
The Hill Group provides clients with the research to forecast workforce and economic development trends, and the tools to prepare for the future.
Strategy
Our economic development and workforce development strategy practice combines the firm’s strengths in strategy and facilitation with content expertise in economic development to provide a unique focus in the workforce development arena. The Hill Group can help your organization develop strategies to enhance regional competitiveness and success.
Execution
An abundant, educated, and high-quality workforce is vital for attracting and retaining employers in your region. The Hill Group can enhance your region’s economic development initiatives by identifying high-growth industries and implementing industry partnerships. Additionally, our firm has designed and implemented Workforce Summit Initiatives for both state and regional governments. The Summits are public-private policy forums designed to convene, educate, and mobilize the region’s key stakeholders and opinion leaders to align the supply-and-demand side of workforce development infrastructure.
Measurement
The Hill Group’s measurement services help our workforce and economic development clients to make informed, data-driven decisions around employer needs and policy. Our survey work has helped employers across the region distinguish critical industries, identify shortage occupations within these industries, and understand critical skills needed within these occupations.
Related Case Studies
The Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC) was looking to enhance southwestern Pennsylvania’s economic competitiveness by identifying potential high-growth industries and related emerging workforce needs.
The Erie Conference on Community Development (ECCD) and the Erie Metropolitan Planning Organization (EMPO) wanted to more effectively manage and utilize public transportation assets to enhance economic development, improve public service delivery, reduce operating costs, and optimize revenues.
The United Way engaged The Hill Group to assesses changes in community needs brought about by the economic downturn and to develop a strategy to maximize the impact of United Way resources on financially struggling adults and families in Allegheny County.
The Clinical Education Task whose mission was to develop recommendations that will expand the capacity of the clinical education system to allow an increase of more students in Pennsylvania’s nursing programs. They partnered with The Hill Group and identified and prioritized three major issues that influence clinical education capacity.
The Maryland Governor’s Workforce Investment Board (GWIB) wanted to address critical shortages in Maryland’s healthcare workforce and asked The Hill Group to manage and facilitate the Governor’s Healthcare Workforce Summit to engage stakeholders industry-wide in tackling this critical challenge.
In response to critical labor shortages across many important healthcare occupations, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was seeking to better understand the dynamics behind these troubling healthcare workforce trends, most notably an existing nursing shortage and a nursing workforce that was aging at a rate twice the national average.