Connecticuts Use of Occupational Information

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Connecticuts Use of Occupational Information
Innovative Services Using One-Stop LMI
Funds NASWA LMI Directors Conference October 31,
2001
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Occupational InformationProduced, Collected,
Available

• Jobs
• Wages
• Future demand
• Education and training requirements
• Licensing requirements
• Skills
• Classification systems

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Historically Paper Publications

• Occupational Wages
• Occupational Projections
• Occupational Supply-Demand
• Licensed Occupations
• Career tabloids, top-occupation lists,
  education/experience-focused products,
  sector-focused products

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Today Electronic DisseminationNow - The Internet

• Pull together all the various pieces of
  information on, and related to, occupations into
  one resource
• Put it in a context that makes it easier to
  access and understand
• More accessible More used

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Approaches to Organizing and Searching for
Occupations

• Traditional groupings (based on the OES
  classification system)
• School-to-Career clusters
• Keyword search matching a collection of real
  occupational titles to standard occupational
  classification titles
• Military-to-civilian career matching
• Skills-to-occupation associations

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Links to Other Relevant Resources

• Assessment tools
• Job openings
• Employer names and addresses
• Education and training programs
• Other service providers

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One-Stop LMI Core Productsin One Integrated
Resource

• An occupational analysis product
• A product for WIBs and others
• A workforce information delivery system
• Displays employer names addresses
• Also
• Uses ALMIS Database
• Uses Occupational Projections

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Connecticuts Product
www.ctjobandcareer.org
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Need Expertise in Important Areas

• Internet application development
• Web site design
• Database administration
• Knowledge of the data
• Projections, wages, supply-demand, classification
  systems, etc.
• User perspective
• job seeker, student, employer, ...

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Resources

• What paid for this?
• One-Stop LMI
• Workforce Investment Board
• CRN
• AST
• Other WIA, BLS, State