Research Catalog

Title

Energy-sector workforce development in West Virginia : aligning community college education and training with needed skills / Gabriella C. Gonzalez, Sean Robson, Andrea Phillips, Gerald Paul Hunter, David S. Ortiz.

Author

Gonzalez, Gabriella

Publication

• Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, [2015]
• ©2015

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Additional Authors

• Robson, Sean
• Phillips, Andrea
• Hunter, Gerald Paul
• Ortiz, David (David Santana)

Description

xxv, 167 pages : color illustrations, color maps; 23 cm

Summary

"In the past, West Virginia's energy sector was primarily based on mining and combusting coal for industry or electricity. In recent years, the production and industrial application of natural gas and natural gas liquids from shale resources have increased demand for workers in the energy sector. In 2013, the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) asked RAND to work closely with the Community and Technical College System of West Virginia (CTCS) to develop a strategy for energy-sector employers and education and training institutions to collaborate to ensure that the local talent pool is prepared to enter the workforce with the competencies to fill energy-sector jobs now and in the future. To develop that strategy we examined data from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) and interviewed energy-sector employers in West Virginia to determine the key knowledge areas, skills, and abilities required of energy-sector employees across the country and within West Virginia. We then analyzed data from the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission, interviews with representatives of academic and training providers within CTCS, apprenticeship programs, a regional Workforce Investment Board (WIB), and CTCS students enrolled in energy-related programs to determine whether education and training is aligned with the sector's needs and what may impede such alignment. We conducted a national review of promising practices from training provider-employer partnerships across the United States. Based on this analysis, we developed ten recommended action items CTCS and other regional stakeholders can implement to support a well-aligned and coherent energy-sector workforce-development pipeline."--Back cover.

Series Statement

[Research report] ; RR-812-NETL

Uniform Title

Research report (Rand Corporation) ; RR-812-NETL.

Subject

• Energy industries > Employees > Supply and demand > West Virginia
• Energy industries > Employees > Training of > West Virginia
• Community college graduates > Supply and demand > West Virginia
• Skilled labor > Supply and demand > West Virginia
• Labor supply > Effect of education on > West Virginia
• Vocational education > West Virginia
• Occupational training > West Virginia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-167).

Call Number

JBE 15-540

ISBN

• 9780833090867
• 0833090860

OCLC

920451078

Author

Gonzalez, Gabriella, author.

Title

Energy-sector workforce development in West Virginia : aligning community college education and training with needed skills / Gabriella C. Gonzalez, Sean Robson, Andrea Phillips, Gerald Paul Hunter, David S. Ortiz.

Publisher

Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, [2015]

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

[Research report] ; RR-812-NETL

Research report (Rand Corporation) ; RR-812-NETL.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-167).

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Link to electronic resource

Added Author

Robson, Sean, author.

Phillips, Andrea, author.

Hunter, Gerald Paul, author.

Ortiz, David (David Santana), author.

Research Call Number

JBE 15-540