Goal 4: Strengthen Talent and Career Pathways
Arizona’s bioscience ecosystem will be a premier bioscience workforce hub that attracts, develops, and retains top-tier professionals and skilled workers. This will be demonstrated by Arizona becoming a residence of choice for workers and destination of choice for companies requiring a large, skilled, and sustained talent pool.
Strategy 4.1:
Unite education institutions and employers to align Arizona’s bioscience talent pools with evolving labor needs. Recommended actions include:
- Establish a Bioscience Workforce Alignment Project Team
- Coordinate regular bioscience workforce needs assessments
- Identify shared talent gaps and competency requirements
- Translate findings into aligned curricula (existing or new), standards, and training investments
- Raise and coordinate public, corporate, and nonprofit funding for implementation
- Recommend policy updates to accelerate workforce alignment
Strategy 4.2:
Implement and scale effective workforce development programs. Recommended actions include:
- Adapt and scale proven training programs and credentials
- Expand flexible, modular learning pathways
- Leverage reskilling and upskilling programs for veterans and other groups
Strategy 4.3:
Establish a bioscience talent concierge to recruit and retain transformative research, clinical, entrepreneurial, and business talent. Recommended actions include:
- Assess existing “concierge” infrastructure and capacity for bioscience-specific support
- Launch bioscience talent concierge to support the recruitment of high-level bioscience professionals