Employer-based Approach

Employer-based approach
"In employer-based programs, program content and goals typically focus on hard skills for highly specific job classifications in specific firms. Training tends to be short, intense, and part-time, with sessions scheduled around participants' regular jobs."

Benefits

• Employers partner tends to place a strong emphasis on the skill development
• Businesses' skills needs determine the focus of training efforts
• Programs have a specific customer base to target

Challenges

• Data privacy laws inhibit the transfer of some employee information making it difficult
  to identify targeted individuals
• Projects must be flexible to work with businesses' immediate and changing needs.

Families Forward example: Hennepin Technical College partnership

Every step of the process was customized to the employer's needs, with clear outcomes and accountability for the employer

• Identified business customers via a mass mailing
• Worked with businesses to identify goals and outcomes
• Defined the assessment process and implemented it
• Developed training recommendations
• Designed the overall educational program
• Conducted the training; and
• Presented a final report