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4 Education and Training
Pages 58-61

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... To retain valuable professionals and fully develop its human resources, the NWS will need a comprehensive career-path program that includes flexible career progressions within the NWS and exchanges of personnel with universities, the private sector, and otherproviders in the environmental information network. To keep up with changes in technology and in the workforce, the NWS must keep its educational and training curricula current and broaden its in-house programs.
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From page 59...
... The development of career paths will require the following components: · describing clearly the functional requirements, including required prior experience, for each staff job · distributing information regarding career development to the NWS workforce · encouraging and mentor in personnel with the poten . in, in, `, ~ fiat for growth and leadership identifying staff members who embrace the full range of environmental forecasting practices and encouraging their development as the next generation of NWS leaders The trend in the private sector away from lifetime careers with a single employer will become increasingly common in government service in the coming decades.
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From page 60...
... , as well as interested private-sector providers, on ways to access and use weather-related environmental information partnerships between providers and outdoor nonprofit organizations to provide weather information for outdoor recreation activities partnerships with hospitals, health care institutions and health maintenance organizations, public health agencies (e.g., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state public health departments) to disseminate health-related weather information special forums on weather-related topics (e.g., tornado watches and heat alerts and the use of probabilistic forecasts)
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From page 61...
... A proactive outreach program of education and dissemination of information to users of NWS products will contribute to the more effective use and understanding of weather information. It will also establish a broad constituency that understands and appreciates the role of the NWS in the environmental information network.
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