Attracting, Retaining, and Developing the Transportation Workforce: Transportation Planners (2021) / Chapter Skim
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42 Workforce Development and Talent Management Healthy and successful corporations usually spend between 5 and 8 percent of their net earnings on strategic planning and market research. This is done to help position their company for future challenges and to take advantage of market opportunities.
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Workforce Development and Talent Management 43 planning-related industry types and clusters as defined in the DOL model, for example, Transportation and Logistics and Geospatial Technology. These were then augmented with an organizational scan of the staffing in the MPO for the Los Angeles region and input from professional competency information from the APA.
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44 Attracting, Retaining, and Developing the Transportation Workforce: Transportation Planners Planning Skills and Abilities Talent profiles describe transportation planning in terms of a set of skills necessary to accomplish any given planning function. Skills might include data collection and analysis, travel demand modeling, program and project evaluation, and public engagement.
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Workforce Development and Talent Management 45 Roles In addition to KSAs, planning talent can also be defined in terms of the various roles performed by the planning staff. Roles reflect not only the organizational function of the planning unit within the overall enterprise, but also the responsibilities of individual staff members.
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46 Attracting, Retaining, and Developing the Transportation Workforce: Transportation Planners of needed knowledge areas, and usually the minimum levels of EEs necessary to perform the functions of the position. Talent profiles, however, are different as illustrated by the example in Figure 6 in that they include a full accounting of KSA relevant to the planning position.
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Workforce Development and Talent Management 47 Pandemics and Possible Impacts on KSAs for Transportation Planning Pandemics more generally and COVID-19 specifically could have very significant impacts on KSAs related to transportation planning talent profiles. These changes are on top of, and in addition to, the changes induced by the perceived alterations in the external environment for planning such as the impact of transformational technologies.
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