Participatory Evaluation for Workforce Development Team Guide | Issue 3 of 8
Who's This For
You run a workforce development program. You track completions. You celebrate placements. And at least once a quarter, someone asks whether your journeyers are "job ready" -- and you realize the answer depends entirely on who you ask.
This issue is for anyone who collects employer satisfaction surveys but suspects the real story lives in conversations that never get documented. For program coordinators who hear employers say "your people are great" but can't turn that into evaluation evidence. For anyone who has ever sat across from an industry partner and heard "they weren't quite ready" without knowing what to do with that feedback.
The central insight: employers aren't asking for perfection. They're asking for something more interesting.