SCENARIO:
WBL Coordinators should keep up to date on their business intelligence/corporate awareness. This intelligence includes knowledge about economic growth in your region, ability to identify employers, building relationships with employers via networking.
SOLUTION:
Become actively involved with all your local employer groups as covered in CTE550.
Keep updated about your region through the NYS Regional Economic Council.
Developing Corporate Awareness in your region.
A wbl coordinator needs to be able to identify community and regional corporations for future wbl activities and advisory board membership. Shadowing, internships, curriculum development, guest speakers career day attendees, judges for competitions, and mentors are just some of the activities you may need to find business partners. Many times wbl coordinators believe that only businesses that can hire students are the partners they should be looking for. When, in reality, any person who can share their wisdom about careers and workforce development should be considered potential partners.
In this re-occurring assignment, I will be asking you to
1. Join a group of classmates who are in the same region as your school.
2. Identify and research corporations within your region
3. Identify unique characteristics about the company through research on its website, facebook page, LinkedIn page, You Tube channel, Twitter stream, and Pinterest pinnings.
Assignment: Identifying your regional growth.
We are going to use the Regional Economic Development Councils website http://regionalcouncils.ny.gov/. The REDC is the top level at which our governor invests millions of dollars for corporate growth.
1. Choose your region and go to the region's latest 2014 economic plan. (Your region will be submitting its 2015 plan in the near future).
2. Browse through the plan looking for corporations who are planning to grow.
3. At the 1.10AV Discussion site respond to.....
Find your regional plan of action https://sites.google.com/site/nyscorporations/
What career sectors are going to be expanding? Manufacturing, biotech, etc.?
Look for companies that are getting monies to expand.
Many of the guides have specific information about working with high schools. Look for the area of workforce development.
In Mod 2 you will begin to explore one corporation you have chosen.
Eventually, your data will end up on this website https://sites.google.com/site/nyscorporations/home
At the end of the course,we should have a robust website of corporate information for your future access.
Our main goal is to enhance your corporate awareness.