Career ready Workforce
Better Louisiana believes the state must drive a multi-pronged strategy to improve the availability and quality of the workforce in order to produce the talent to fill the jobs of the future and improve the socio-economic status of its people.
Our Recommendations:
- Ensure high schools and school districts provide robust career and technical education, relevant to local and statewide job opportunities.
- Connect employers and students to high-quality work-based learning, whether in high school, community colleges, or four year programs.
- Strengthen the focus within postsecondary education to meet the workforce and knowledge needs of a more diversified, modern and changing economy.
- Assist graduates with job placement in Louisiana, using internships as a tool to better connect students to local employers.
- Increase state and local focus on reaching existing businesses with customized workforce solutions from across the resources of government, education, and the private sector .
- Increase efforts to attract more talent from outside of Louisiana to communities and occupations across the state.
- Enhance opportunities for adults to acquire the skills needed to obtain employment in high-demand, high-paying jobs.
Of Louisiana high school graduates
5%
earned an internship credit
In Louisiana only
58%
of adults participate in the labor force
In Louisiana
51%
of working-age adults have earned a postsecondary credential
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