Regional Analysis

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Key Industries, Key Occupations, Key Skills.

• Kyle Uphoff
• Regional Analysis Outreach Unit
• Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic
  Development (DEED)
• Labor Market Information Office
• www.deed.state.mn.us/lmi

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How do you target industries?

• Start with what you knowUsing LMI we can look at
  the profile of existing industries and look at
  the attributes (quantitative and qualitative) of
  those industries.
• Once those attributes are identified, ask which
  attributes are the most important (size, wages,
  growth, etc..) and weight those attributes by
  their importance (1-10 scale).
• Apply the weights to those regional industries
  and find those that score the highest.

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Relative attributes of Twin Cities Industries
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Twin Cities Employer Services Partnership Model
First steps identifying workforce needs
ONET Skills Database, Others
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Industries to Occupations to Skills

• Identify occupations from industry staffing
  matrix. A cutoff value of 1 total industry
  employment yielded 90 occupations.
• Relative attributes of occupations can be
  identified as done previously for industries-
  size, wage, projected growth, etc.
• Skills (ONET) can be identified for targeted
  occupations and aggregated by industry. Is there
  an alternative?

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Progress to Date

• Identification of 5 targeted industries
• Manufacturing
• Transportation
• Healthcare
• Professional/Technical Services
• Finance Insurance
• Identification of 90 occupations associated with
  targeted industries and analysis of occupational
  attributes.
• Analysis of Skills associated with occupations
  and the top skills for each targeted industry.

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Top Skills identified for Targeted Industries and
Occupations

• Active Listening
• Reading Comprehension
• Speaking
• Writing
• Critical Thinking
• Time Management
• Mathematics
• Coordination
• Active Learning

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Now What?

• Once industries and occupations of interest are
  identified, we can use LMI to look into some of
  the pressures that those areas face (workforce
  shortage, job losses, etc.)
• With industry-specific LMI in hand the next step
  is to talk to the employers- are the needs real?
  How is the industry facing challenges? What can
  a WIB or other group do?
• Gather Input!

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Where can I get this Information?

• DEED Website www.deed.state.mn.us/lmi
• DEED Publications Hotline [phone]
• Regional Analyst Kyle Uphoff
• 651-296-8713 (Mon., Wed., Fri.)
• 612-821-4072 (Tues. Thurs.)
• DEED LMI Help Line 651-282-2714