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Improving job quality looks different depending on your role.
A small business owner needs different tools than a federal policymaker or a workforce development case manager. That is why the Job Quality Center of Excellence allows you to filter by Audience. We have tagged every resource in our library so you can easily find materials designed for your area of work.
How to Build Job Quality into Your Workforce Development Approach
This tool from the San Diego Workforce Partnership centers on seven actionable steps workforce development practitioners can take to assess and improve job quality. In addition, it provides an overall framework for job quality, broken down into indicators that help users prioritize and understand the levers they can pull to improve job quality for the people they serve.
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If you’d like to talk more about the Job Quality Center of Excellence, especially if you are working to improve job quality but don’t see your organization type reflected in our audience categories, please feel free to reach out to me at [email protected].
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This publication examines how fragmented skills, credentialing, and workforce data systems limit the potential of skills-based hiring and advancement, and outlines a shared vision for building the interoperable infrastructure needed to create a connected skills ecosystem that benefits workers, employers, educators, and governments.
Economic security shouldn’t be a lottery. Yet for millions of working families, stagnant wages and precarious jobs collide with the daily grind of managing money on shaky ground — leaving stability feeling less like a plan and more like a gamble. Fixing that takes more than one lever. It takes structural reform and the tools people need to take control of their financial lives, working together.
This resource is designed to help colleges and universities become more employer-friendly and build the kind of institutional capacity that sustains and grows partnerships while simultaneously better serving working learners. It offers role-specific guidance for leaders across the institution, a self-assessment spanning five domains of practice, and a process for turning results into action, grounded in the conviction that institution/employer partnerships can become easier without compromising academic missions.
Bridge, Propel, and Career Academy are built on a practical philosophy: that MillerKnoll has great talent already inside the organization. Finding that talent, developing it, and aligning it to the right opportunities is key to its success. T
States invest in work-connected learning through dozens of distinct funding streams, grant programs, and agency initiatives, often developed independently over time by different administrations and agencies pursuing different goals.
