Talent Development

    • Build a robust talent pipeline by ensuring students and emerging workers gain meaningful career awareness, exploration, training, and work-based learning experiences to prepare them for high-demand careers in Northern Kentucky

    • Advocate for and facilitate systematic changes to accelerate talent development

    • Identify and pursue additional resources to supporting training in high-impact industries

    • Champion the development of competitive skills

    • Recruit employers to mentor/train/hire K-12 and post-secondary students

    • Increase career exposure

    • Facilitate skill development

    • Increase work-based learning opportunities, particularly onsite jobs for high-school students under age 18

    • Build measurable competitive job skills

    • Expose educators to high-impact industries

    • Maintain a community-wide calendar of career engagement opportunities

    • 15 new employers will offer co-ops/internships to students under the age of 18

    • 25 under-employed adults will complete a short-term industry credential

    • A baseline number of students participating in work-based learning will be established

    • A baseline of employer satisfaction with student preparedness for work will be established

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