• Employment Security Rather Than Job Security.
• Combine Work and Education in the Workplace; Use of the Workplace to Raise Basic Learning Skills.
• Lifelong Learning: workers and employers need to share the notion that there is a career ladder in a given firm as well as a career ladder for the individual.
• Strategies need to be developed based on documented skills or skill gaps of the incumbent workers to the academic, employability and occupational/technical knowledge, skills and abilities.
• Alignment of the current employer-based training with the public employment and training funding streams to allow for better employer leverage of these public funds.
• Need to enhance the ability of small and medium sized businesses to fully participate in the incumbent worker training system.
• Industry-led clusters should help lead and design the incumbent worker training system in New York at the state and local levels.