Regions

• Advanced Communications
• Advanced Manufacturing
• Aerospace
• Bioscience
• Energy
• Logistics

In Georgia, our people set us apart and provide our companies with a critical competitive advantage. To drive ongoing education and skills development, we have created Georgia Work Ready - an ambitious, industry-led strategy to identify the needs of business and the available skills of Georgia's workers to more effectively develop the right talent for the right jobs.

For our fastest-growing industries - aerospace, advanced communications, advanced manufacturing, bioscience, energy and logistics - we have built Georgia's Work Ready Regions, designed to bring together our industry assets with regional leaders to deliver competitive advantages for Georgia companies. Work Ready Regions are educating the state's emerging workforce - high school students, technical college and college students - for exciting careers in cutting-edge industries. It is answering the needs of our transitioning workforce - those individuals looking for work, looking for a career change and veterans entering the workforce - and helping them leverage the talents they have in preparing for these knowledge-based jobs and career advancement opportunities and for the existing workforce an opportunity to help prepare for advancement and to meet the common training needs across the regional industry. It is all about providing the right tools and metrics to help our state's education and training community manage talent development to ensure a long-term pipeline of employees with the skills necessary for growth industries.

Georgia has built a strong system of resources and strategic partners to support the growth of these important industries. In addition to existing education, corporate and infrastructure assets, each Work Ready Region is lead by an industry leader and has assembled a regional industry network to ensure its growth plan meets businesses' current and future needs.

Georgia's Work Ready Regions are also producing results, including:

• Profiling regional strategic industry jobs
• Ensuring counties reach their Work Ready Certificate goals
• Closing the skills gap
• Increasing public high school graduation rates
• Developing career pathways aligned to critical occupations
• Ensuring the education community graduates enough new talent
• Building an industry network to lead the effort