ETA-Funded Workforce Development System: Questions And Answers

• Identifying your experiences gained at national, regional, state, and/or local level, in administering or operating ETA-funded Workforce Investment Act (WIA) development systems, programs, policies and guidelines, and administrative requirements. o What ETA-funded WIA programs have you worked with at the Federal, state or local levels?
 In what capacity have you worked with these programs?
 What were your primary job duties in that position? o Provide an example on the type of work you did with WIA policies and guidelines. o Based on your experience in WIA, what is one of the most common performance reporting problems in the:
 Youth program?
 Adult or Dislocated Worker program?

• Identifying your experience in interpreting and applying
This should include clearly explaining in one’s own writing the issues and programs related to the ETA-funded workforce development system. o Give three examples on the type of presentation or training relating to the WIA program that you have provided and identify who were the targeted audience. o What is PMQ?
 Briefly explain how the PMQ can best be used in working with our states and local workforce boards.
 Identify one or more weakness in using the PMQ.

• Identify your experience in exercising sound judgment, reasoning, and critical thinking as well as taking a lead role or individual initiative to deal with increasingly complex problems. o Give three examples on “how” you have approached and addressed complex problems or issues?

• Identify your experience in reviewing and evaluating proposals, plans, policies, manuals and other documents for technical accuracy and legal sufficiency. o Give three examples of reviewing and evaluating proposals, plans, policies, etc. o If you were going to conduct a WIA data validation review in a state:
 Where would you go to access the documents you need to review?
 What are the primary source documentations you would request to