The Skills Balance Sheet uses a data-driven process to: determine the specific skills needed to do various jobs, assess actual job skills of workers against the standards of those skill requirements, create a detailed skill gap analysis by comparing the skill requirements with the assessed skills, and aids in the development of curriculum to progressively close the gaps between needed skills and current skills.

This process is actively being used to drive the success of the Keystone Transit Career Ladder Project, a joint labor-management partnership dedicated to addressing a major skills gap caused buy the introduction of new technology into buses and trains and by the rapidly changing demographics of the maintenance work force in Pennsylvania’s transit industry.

The Keystone case study report - Pennsylvania Transit on the High Road: The First Two Years of the Keystone Transit Career Ladder Partnership is available for you to review at: Keystone Case Study . The companion report focusing on metrics of training impacts, Measuring up, will be completed by spring of 2004.