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Workforce Development Toolkit

Because of size and varying socio-economic conditions, cities differ in terms of staffing, capacity, and know-how. This toolkit, accessible to all GMA members, can help level this uneven playing field. This toolkit concerns all stages of workforce development and may be used to assist cities in determining living wage levels relevant for recruitment and retention, learning about best practices, and researching and adopting appropriate tools for both training needs and succession planning. Most importantly, the toolkit allows GMA to build a knowledge base reflecting the current state of workforce development as well as innovative approaches in anticipation of future trends.

Learn more about the Starts With Me! workforce development campaign designed for Georgia cities to use as they address their ongoing talent acquisition and retention challenges.

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Reports, Articles, and Tools

When I Grow Up, I Want to be an Assistant City Administrator

Hiring Veterans for Local Government Positions

State and Local Employee Views on Their Jobs, Pay and Benefits

State and Local Government Workforce: 2019 Survey

Podcast: The Myth of Bureaucratic Neutrality

How to Build a Successful Volunteer Program

Aging and in need of attention: America’s infrastructure and its 17 million workers

The High Cost of Undervaluing Older Talent

Investing in America's Workforce: Improving Outcomes for Workers and Employers

Beyond Compliance: Recruitment and Retention of Underrepresented Populations to Achieve Higher Positions in Local Government

Retirement Plans Use Too Much Jargon, Say Employees

Financial Literacy Programs for Local Government Employees

The Gender Disparity in Climbing Local Government's Ladder

Balancing Objectives in Public Employee Post-Retirement Employment Policies: Reassessing Barriers to Continued Work

The Model Police Officer: Recruitment, Training, and Community Engagement

Sharing our H2Opportunity to Recruit the Next Generation

Finance Employees Are Fastest-Growing Segment of Local Government Workforce

Workforce of the Future: Strategies to Manage Change

H2Opportunity Career Paths for Water Protection

Fresh Air Recruitment Trends & Topics: Implicit Bias

A State and Local Government Leader’s Guide to Building the Public Workforce of the Future

How Governments Are Closing the Gender Pay Gap

Recruiting Young People to Local Government

Alpharetta Employee Referral Program

Renewing the Water Workforce: Improving Water Infrastructure and Creating a Pipeline to Opportunity

State and Local Government Workforce: 2018 Data and 10-Year Trends

How to Identify Emerging Leaders

Preparing Tomorrow’s Public Service

Public Pension Cuts and Competitiveness

Public Sector Retirement Initiative

Athens-Clarke County Innovation Ambassadors

Room to Grow: New Frontiers for Apprenticeships

2018 Management Survey: Leading Challenges in State & Local Government

COPS Task Force Makes Compensation Recommendations

Youth Councils Build Tomorrow’s Leaders

State and Local Government Workforce: 2017 Trends

Workforce Toolkit: Living Wage Calculators

GMA Municipal Workforce Development Task Force Report

Workforce News

Marietta PD reports full staff by courting millennial officers

City employees honored for hard work

City public works staff earns Golden Backhoe

Snellville offering digital badge program for online credits

Suwanee recognizes youth police explorers

Kennesaw's proposed $24.4M budget would add police positions

Dunwoody proposes salary raise for full-time employees, police officers

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