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Strategy
Increase the number and type of high quality internships for college students, those pursuing technical training, and recent graduates.
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Partner with organizations to support the increase in the number of Indianapolis businesses offering high quality internships to college students and to recent college graduates and support efforts to expose interns to civic engagement opportunities and cultural offerings. More details0% -
Provide resources to help Indianapolis employers recruit and on-board new interns and young professional employees. More details85%
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Work with colleges and universities within a 50-mile radius of Indianapolis to help them connect students with this community and its employers. More details50%
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Strategy
Expand existing and create additional industry-led, sector-specific workforce development and attraction efforts in high-growth, high-demand sectors.
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Align Live Indy and IndyHub strategies to help new young residents connect easily to the neighborhoods, amenities and civic spaces that will make them feel at home. More details100% -
Create targeted communications (e.g. a “Consider Indy” page on the IndyHub website and “Hipster Indy” information for civic/convention events that attract Young Professionals) to help recruit new Young Professional talent to the city. More details85%
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Proactively share the voices and views of Young Professionals with the media. More details65%
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Identify/confirm gaps in the supply of educated workers and demand from employers. More details10%
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Create and implement sector specific talent retention and attraction initiatives. More details50%
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Strategy
Boost attainment of associate's and bachelor's degrees at Marion County campuses.
Actions:
Create internship opportunities across sectors in Central Indiana for Indiana college students to promote living and working in Central Indiana. More details15%
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Project:
Pre-apprenticeship training program
http://indianaplan.org/
The Indiana Plan is a statewide recruitment initiative for the union construction industry. Indiana Plan offers a pre-apprenticeship training program that assists minorities, women and disadvantaged workers with acceptance into union construction building trade apprenticeships. Applicants seeking to become construction apprentices will attend 80 hours of classroom training. The class includes introduction to the construction industry, math review, soft skills, OSHA 10-hour safety training, jobsite readiness, interview skills, and steps to apprenticeship application process. Upon completion of the class, trainees are assisted with job placements with signatory union contractors earning wages higher than minimum wage and provided a set of starter tools while they are working on acceptance into a construction apprenticeship. Indiana Plan also provides monthly follow up with trainees to make sure they are advancing on the jobs and working to become accepted into apprenticeship programs.
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Project:
Live Local, Think Global Event
https://www.immigrantwelcomecenter.org/
Through the annual Live Local, Think Global event, Immigrant Welcome Center helps Indianapolis corporate community understand how attracting and retaining a diverse workforce can lead to company innovation and growth and ensure our city’s economic vitality in the global marketplace.
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Project:
No Mean City Initiative – Talent Retention & Attraction
http://www.nomeancity.com
No Mean City exists to provide anyone in the business of moving or recruiting with a more honest, more comprehensive perspective on life in Indianapolis— modern families, recent transplants, Realtors, corporate recruiters, and city ambassadors. No Mean City was created – and continues to be refined – to support those on the front lines of talent attraction and retention.
Whether one is considering or planning a move to Indianapolis, or is already here and considering whether or not to stay, the site aims to help one understand the myriad of housing, schools and lifestyle options available to them in our city’s 400 square miles.
The site offers stories, videos, quizzes, additional resources and navigational tools designed to make the process of finding the ideal easier and more efficient.