Developing technologies and high-impact infrastructure projects requires a talented workforce that is equipped with the skills and abilities to turn vision into reality. HGI’s workforce development professionals have carved out a unique niche in the otherwise broad spectrum of workforce development. Our dedicated professionals excel at workforce development, workforce marketing, employer engagement, and talent pipelining in some of the most challenging and disadvantaged communities across the United States. This means that we understand your outreach, recruiting, training, and overall talent development needs from a systemic perspective. Our “RISE Together” model is built on the concept of mutual development and sustainability. As we develop the workforce, we build your brand. As we build your brand, we empower your workforce. RISE Together is designed to equip individuals with career building skills. We aren’t in the jobs market, HGIs Workforce Development Programs change lives.
Our team lives by the mantra that workforce development, (when most effective) “is a comprehensive approach to ensuring that industries, and therefore, economies have qualified, skilled labor in adequate supply.” In other words, workforce development, workforce recruitment and workforce training are not a compilation of mutually exclusive components. They are complementary, efficient, and integral to the delivery of valuable human capital to private industry and businesses. At HGI our goal is to personify this philosophy.
HGI also has demonstrated the reach and the diversity necessary to work with all segments of the population from business leaders and elected officials to community activists and disabled job seekers that need resources. Consequently, our ability to mobilize entire demographics places HGI in a unique space.
The HGI team is well versed in the following:
- Research, brand development, and media placement
- Workforce marketing, outreach, and recruitment strategies
- High demand industry sectors
- Emerging industry sectors
- Workforce development legislation
- Business engagement strategies
- Resource mapping and facilitation strategies
Regardless of the client, product or service traditional marketing and communication plans have common elements. These elements include analysis, research, defined expectations, strategies, tactical execution, timelines, realistic budgets and measurable outcomes. These individual pieces are intended to synchronize within a blueprint that serves one purpose- to deliver client results. We are workforce development specialists capable of successfully communicating potentially complex messages to various target audiences. We will also strive to:
- Provide channels for branding and messaging growth
- Increase overall awareness
- Increase customer utilization
- Assist in removing workforce stigmas and stereotypes employers may have about working with government funded programs
- Align with government workforce mandates
- Assist in filling gaps to customer service
- Assist in filling gaps to field delivery
- Assist in strengthening community based partnerships
- Assist in strengthening private industry partnerships
Our goal of delivering job-ready, skill-developed talent to our client-partners while focusing on the “consumer” serves as the cornerstone of our workforce development model. This model involves in-depth research and constant re-evaluation. Our sophisticated approach draws from past successful techniques and industry research to develop the sequential steps necessary to achieve success. Additionally, our processes are constantly subjected to quality control reviews for efficiency and quality improvement opportunities. Our analytics are designed to better understand the current dynamics and barriers that exist in an organization. By combining research, analytics, and process review concepts, our approach allows for the creation of a customized strategic plan to address the specific needs of the entire industry chain from development to consumption.