"How Oklahoma's Local Workforce Boards Help Our State"

The South Central Oklahoma Workforce Board’s mission is to enhance the area’s prosperity by helping people and businesses with their workforce needs. We provide individuals with opportunities for training and career advancement. While also offering businesses comprehensive services to aid in their current workforce needs.

Attendees will learn how:

• South Central Oklahoma Workforce Boards analyze the local labor market,
• Determine what occupations and industries are in high-demand and then use that information to drive various economic and workforce initiatives, including training opportunities to bridge potential skill-gaps with the existing workforce
• Individuals impacted by a layoff, unemployed or just searching for a new job or career can access a variety of services and resources through Oklahoma Works to help navigate the workforce
• Offers a variety of services to employers, covering recruitment, hiring, retention, employee training, managing layoffs, and more at no cost to employers

Speaker Bios: 

Erin Glass started working in workforce development at the beginning of 2021. She began as a case manager for the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act program helping job seekers find training or employment. She now works for the South-Central Oklahoma Workforce Board as a Business Services Coordinator where her goal now is to facilitate the engagement of employers and other workforce development partners so that talent pipelines can be strengthened, and more work-based learning opportunities can be provided. Erin provides other services like educating employers about forward thinking hiring practices & company procedures, sharing labor market information and the benefits of Registered Apprenticeship creation within their organization to help fill the skills gap that employers are facing. She is passionate about helping people and is a reluctant public speaker!

Sissel Brown is the Deputy Director for the South Central Oklahoma Workforce Board. Sissel began her career in Workforce Development shortly after graduating from the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma in 2016. She started out as a WIOA case manager and worked her way to operations manager, project director, and now deputy director for the board. She currently serves as secretary for the Oklahoma Southwest Alliance. Over the last seven years Sissel has really developed a passion for workforce and economic development. She loves being able to help individuals better themselves and help our local businesses and communities thrive.

Cost: Free for SWOKHR members, $10 for non-members.