SHRS November 2023 Meeting
Tuesday, November 14, 12 to 1 PM
The Center
2475 Boardwalk St. Suite 105
Norman, OK 73069
Doors open at 11:30; meeting starts at 12
"Current Workforce Issues in Oklahoma"
Overview: Oklahoma, like many other states, is experiencing a critical workforce shortage. There are many reasons for this, but we need solutions.
1. Jobs most in demand with shortages include public teachers, engineers, trades, and medical. We have many state programs addressing these workforce shortages, and we will go into what those are.
2. Pools of job seekers not being utilized, even though they are desperately needed, such as women of childbearing years, the formerly incarcerated, and immigrants already living in our state. There are district and possible policy solutions that could be enacted to counteract them not being able to fill open slots.
3. Latest trends in Human Resources: including items such as people do not stay for the gold watch anymore, millennials look for different structure than older employees, discussion of the emerging and changing field of hiring and retaining employees.
Objectives:
- What jobs are the most in demand in our state
- Who are the pools of people being underutilized for these positions
- Latest trends of HR in a changing demographic of job seekers
Presenter: Oklahoma Commissioner of Labor Leslie Osborn
In 2022, Leslie Osborn was elected to a second four-year term as State Labor Commissioner. Prior to that she served ten years in the OK House of Representatives for District 47. During her time there she was the first female to chair the Judiciary Committee of the House, and in December of 2016, she was named the first Republican female chairman of the House Appropriations and Budge Committee. During her tenure she authored landmark workers compensation reform and passed into law the first Pay for Success contract in Oklahoma, which was a public-private partnership with the Department of Corrections and the Kaiser Foundation to move women from incarceration to the Women in Recovery Program.
Osborn received a B.S. in business administration from Oklahoma State University and resides in Mustang, Oklahoma. Leslie owned and operated her own business for 22 years selling heavy duty truck parts, Osborn Pick-Up Accessories, and is the mother of two children.
Leslie Osborn serves on the advisory board of Oklahoma Small Business Development Centers and The Oklahoma Academy. She is the President of the Board of Honestly and the Canadian Valley Technology Center Foundation. She was in Leadership Oklahoma Class 27 and served as the state director of the national group Women in Government.
A boxed lunch will be served.
SHRS Members and SHRS Student Members are FREE!
Non-members and guests are $15.
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This program has been approved for 1 hour re-certification credit hours toward SHRM for Professional Development credits (PDCs). Please visit the websites at shrmcertification.org.
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