Vision: Missouri will maintain a vigorous economy through a highly skilled and globally competitive workforce that allows all Missourians the opportunity to reach their full potential.

Mission: To provide leadership that creates a world-class workforce system ensuring Missouri’s competitive advantage in the global economy, by developing systemic policies, plans and standards that promote best practices.

Leadership: The Governor has called upon MTEC to assess the workforce investment system: publish the State of Missouri’s Workforce report; and develop systemic policies, plans and standards that promote best practices and ensure public accountability. The Council, local Workforce Investment Boards, and the Regional Technical Education Councils (RTECs) will work with business, labor and education to identify common sets of essential and technical skills required for effective work in major occupational and industry clusters.

Strategy: Full integration of workforce and economic development functions will result in better outcomes for students, job seekers and businesses and will be evidenced by an increase in market share for the public workforce investment system. Achieving full integration will require excellent working relationships among state departments, local workforce investment boards, career centers, as well as educational and community-based service delivery systems. Quality customer service can be best achieved through community-based decision making that is based on timely labor market information