Why Career Ready?CHALLENGE:• Career Awareness: Insufficient knowledge among

Hoosiers about career options

• Talent Pipeline: Indiana employers often struggle to find qualified employees

• Skills Gap: Prospective employees often lack essential soft skills and specialized technical skills

Career Ready… By the Numbers• 80% of employers want new hires to have completed

an internship…

• Only 8% of students say they invest time in internship experiences…

• 100% of Indiana colleges and employers say every student should have a career-based experience before graduating

Career Ready Mission

The Career Ready Indiana campaign aims to ensure every Hoosier student has at least one

work-based learning experience before graduating from high school and college.

Career Ready Goals• Educate students about the many career options in

Indiana, especially in high-growth sectors

• Expose students to work-and-learn experiences that connect classroom learning to employer expectations

• Equip students with the education/skills required to succeed in their careers and meet employer demand

April 20 Career Ready Indiana Kick-Off

Featured Speakers

– Government: Lt. Gov. Sue EllspermannCommissioner Teresa Lubbers

– Business: Nick Hoagland, COO Backhaul Direct

– Colleges: Chuck Johnson, Vincennes University

– Students: Lex Dennis, enFocus, Inc.

What’s Next for Career Ready Indiana?

• Discover and spotlight small- and large-scale efforts already taking place throughout Indiana.

• Bring greater statewide attention to these efforts through earned media, outreach and the CareerReadyIndiana.org website.

• Build momentum and resources for more colleges, schools, businesses and communities to develop new Career Ready programs.

Engaging Communities at All LevelsLow-Engagement Activities:

• Facilitate mock interviews for students• Review and provide feedback on student resumes• Host career presentations, career fairs, career days

Medium-Engagement Activities • Join a regional Works Council or College Success Coalition• Provide tours of local businesses • Host job shadowing experiences

High-Engagement Activities • Build or expand internship program(s)• Develop career-focused curricula• Invest in regional talent retention programs and partnerships

Examples: Statewide Efforts• Indiana Career Council

• Indiana Regional Works Councils

• Congresswoman Susan Brooks’ Connecting Classrooms and Careers Series

• Conexus Indiana

• ISTEM Resource Network

• Indiana INTERNnet

• Jobs for America’s Graduates (JAG) Indiana Program

• College Success Coalitions

• 21st Century Scholars Program

Local Efforts: Central IndianaK-12 and Colleges

• Providence Cristo Rey High School• Pike High School Youth Career Connect• Speedway High School & Allison Transmission Partnership• Noblesville High School Internship Program• IUPUI Career EDGE program

Community, Government and Non-profit• Launch Fishers• EmployIndy • The Arc of Indiana Erskine Green Training Institute

Local Efforts: Southern IndianaSoutheast

• EcO15 – Economic Opportunities through Education by 2015

Southcentral• Education Matters Southern Indiana (EMSI) initiative • Radius Indiana

Southwest• I-69 Brainpower Task Force• Grow Southwest Indiana Workforce Board and Work Ethic Certification

Program• Vincennes University’s Toyota AMT, Jasper CAP and Lafayette AIM

programs

Local Efforts: Northern IndianaNorthwest

• Ready Northwest Indiana• Center of Workforce Innovations• Civility Counts• Regional Council of Carpenters (IKORCC) apprenticeship program and

partnership with Ivy Tech/IU Northwest/Purdue Calumet

Northcentral• enFocus, non-profit talent and economic development incubator• St. Joseph County Chamber of Commerce internSJC program• Elkhart County Chamber of Commerce Young Entrepreneurs Academy• Elkhart County Horizon Education Alliance

Northeast• Big Goal Collaborative’s Cradle-to-Career Education Initiative• Greater Fort Wayne Inc. Fellows program

Local Efforts: Mid-North Indiana

• Subaru Partnership: Subaru of Indiana Automotive, Inc., Vincennes University and the Purdue College of Technology

• Ivy Tech Integrated Technology Program: Kokomo-based program is partially funded through a federal grant to expand career training in high school with two-year Ivy Tech degrees.

• Advancing Manufacturing: 12-county regional initiative focused on preparing Hoosiers for careers in advanced manufacturing.