The emphasis today has taken the phenomenon of socioeconomic development planning, through implementation of measures to promote employment, promotion of business and/or revitalization of local resources, requires a reference model with goals, a structure and operational means well defined. On this premise, in this article we reflect on the current model of local economic development- implanted since the early eighties, and analyzes its main shortcomings hypothesized background, the need for a time of economic crisis as the current model and its central figure-Agent-Employment and Local Development to undertake a redefinition of its constituents to enable them to face the future with guaranteed success.