Developing Idaho's Workforce Through Work-Based Learning
The Idaho LEADER Initiative helps employers and educators build the work-based learning strategies they need to grow their skilled workforce.
No matter what your path, the road to a pipeline of qualified talent begins when you LEAD.
Exploration
Learning About Work
Learning about work activities help people understand the world of work and explore career possibilities. This can include, teachers bringing career information into the classroom, students engaging with potential future employers, or teachers themselves doing short, practical work experiences.
Employers
Oct 13, 21
Employer Activities: Learning About Work
Employer Activities: Learning About Work
First Steps
Learning Through Work
Learning through work helps trainees learn both specific job-related skills but also exposer to basic job-readiness skills that can help them prepare for a career or start an apprenticeship.
Digging Deeper
Learning at Work
This on-the-job training can be a formal apprenticeship program where hands-on training is coupled with related classroom instruction or can take place in when individuals are taught by other employees how to complete a task while doing a job.
Employers
Oct 13, 21
Employer Activities: Learning Through Work
Employer Activities: Learning Through Work
Benefits of Work-based Learning
BUILDING YOUR
TALENT PIPELINE
Active participation in the LEADER Initiative can provide Idaho employers with a number of business advantages, such as:
- An active role in the development of current and future employees
- Better-prepared employees who understand workplace expectations
- A well–developed pipeline of qualified, motivated, early-career talent
- A structured and scalable framework for training employees
- Natural pre-screening of trainees
- Increased employee productivity
- Positive public relations within the community
- Increased staff retention
- Enhanced corporate competitiveness
Charting Your Path
A Continuum
of Experiences that Lead to Employment
The work-based learning continuum is a set of activities through which students gain increasing exposure to the world of work and workers gain the skills necessary to advance their careers.
From exposure in the classroom to on-the-job training, Idaho employers are free to determine the experiences in which they would like to engage based on business objectives and resources available to support these efforts. View the work-based learning continuum to better understand the activities that meet your organization’s needs.
Benefits of Work-based Learning
Charting Your Path
BUILDING YOUR
TALENT PIPELINE
Active participation in the LEADER Initiative can provide Idaho employers with a number of business advantages, such as:
- An active role in the development of current and future employees
- Better-prepared employees who understand workplace expectations
- A well–developed pipeline of qualified, motivated, early-career talent
- A structured and scalable framework for training employees
- Natural pre-screening of trainees
- Increased employee productivity
- Positive public relations within the community
- Increased staff retention
- Enhanced corporate competitiveness
A Continuum
of Experiences that Lead to Employment
The work-based learning continuum is a set of activities through which students gain increasing exposure to the world of work and workers gain the skills necessary to advance their careers.
From exposure in the classroom to on-the-job training, Idaho employers are free to determine the experiences in which they would like to engage based on business objectives and resources available to support these efforts. View the work-based learning continuum to better understand the activities that meet your organization’s needs.
Plug In to LEADER
The LEADER Initiative offers many ways to engage—from the classroom to the worksite, online or in person, and for everyone from youth to early-career employees, to veterans. Browse our directory to find pre-existing programs.
Learning About Work
Learning Through Work
Learning At Work
GET INVOLVED
Lead by Example
Join the LEADER Initiative today by signing up for Next Steps Idaho Connections. Connect with Idaho students and help them learn about careers in your industry virtually.