SkillsCommons Training Materials
Effective Employer Engagement Strategies (Showcase)
This collection of recommendations, guidelines, and work-flow templates presents the degree of employer engagement in college initiatives along a spectrum of partnership activity, with employer roles ranging from less to more active. The series of examples explains how college projects helped to deepen employer engagement at all levels of program design and implementation, with employer partners taking on a variety of roles – from advising to strategic implementation.
Aligning Workforce Development Programs with Industry Sector Needs (Showcase)
Explore a collection of video case studies of how innovative workforce development project created productive collaborations with industry sector partners and download the tools, templates,and documents the projects uploaded to SkillsCommons.
Paving Partnership Pathways (Showcase)
The SkillsCommons team, in close collaboration with Ivy Tech,has created guidelines for designing and implementing large-scale, state-wide industy-higher education partnerships that are productive and not overburden with bureaucracy.
Employer Engagement White Paper (PDF)
Report detailing the partnerships that were formed and existing between TAACCCT Consortium colleges and local employers.
Contract Template: Pre-apprenticeship Partnership (WORD Docs, PDFs)
This contract was written in partnership with our pre-apprenticeship partner who agreed to fund the students’ first day of training.
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