Benefits to Business

Potential Benefits of Partnership with Career Pathways

Benefits for business:

Meet skills shortages
Increase productivity
Retain workers
Leverage public resources

Benefits for workers:

Hiring or promotion as a result of training
Training at worksite, provided during work hours
Pay for time spent in training

Benefits for public

Increase state's attractiveness to business
Increase worker incomes
Increase business Productivity
Promote sectors that offer higher-wage jobs with benefits
Leverage private resources

Our partnership will help low-and middle-wage workers upgrade their skills. Career Pathways is a critical part of public policies to advance workers and to attract and retain "good jobs" that pay enough to support a family and offer health care, sick leave, and other key benefits.

There is a promising strategy: State and local partnerships with business and industry aimed at training low-wage workers and helping them advance. Properly designed and implemented, these training partnerships can offer important benefits to business, workers, and the public - and promote key economic and workforce goals.

Give business a lead role in identifying job training needs and paths to job advancement, often for their own employees;
Provide job training through public, non-profit, for-profit institutions, sometimes at the worksite;
Involve an investment of public funds and are managed by a public sector institution (business and industry also typically invest in these partnerships).