NASWA LMI Directors Conference

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• NASWA LMI Directors Conference
• 11/1/2001
• Jay Mousa

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• What kinds of jobs need workers? Where are they?
• What parts of the state have the most vacancies?
  In what kind of jobs?

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Three Measures of Workforce Demand Measures

• This report provides three measures of comparison
  of hiring demand across occupational groups and
  industries
• Job vacancies
• Duration of job vacancies, and
• Turnover-adjusted demand.

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Key questions

• Numbers and job titles of current openings
• Full-time or part-time?
• How long have positions been open?
• Required education experience?
• Wages and benefits?
• Short and simple!!

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The Results can Help the Following Needs

• H.R. professionals can use this information to
  evaluate hiring competition
• ET service providers can use to plan service
  strategies
• Educational planners can use to identify
  workforce development priorities

• Instructors and counselors can use to help
  students and jobseekers identify occupations in
  demand

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• Have job vacancies increased or decreased?

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Educational Requirements

• All
  Part Time Full Time
• No Education Required 33 47 23
• High School Diploma 39 35 42
• Postsecondary Ed. 28 18 35
• Voc. Training/Certificate 13 11 15
• 2-Year Degree 5 3 6
• Bachelor's Degree 9 4 12
• Advanced Degree 1 lt 1 2

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Experience Requirements

• Experience Requirement of Openings
• Full Part Time Full Time
• No Experience Required 39 53 31
• Some Work Experience 26 29 24
• Related Experience 18 9 23
• Specific Experience 17 9 22

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Wages and Education/Experience
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Twin Cities JVS
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• How do the regions of the state compare?

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Northeast MN Job Vacancy Survey

• 2nd Quarter 2001

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Summary of Results

• 5,320 job vacancies in Northeast MN (5 percent of
  total state vacancies).
• 1,810 vacancies are in Duluth.
• Four occupational groups show evidence of having
  the greatest need for workers
• Food preparation and serving
• Buildings, grounds, cleaning and maintenance
• Healthcare support, and
• Healthcare practitioners and technicians.
• Accommodation has the highest number of vacancies
  (1,680 or 18 percent).
• Northeast firms with fewer than 25 employees
  account for 76 percent of vacancies.
• Healthcare has the greatest number of vacancies
  in Duluth.
• Duluth firms with fewer than 25 employees account
  for 45 percent of total job vacancies, a rate of
  4 percent.

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Vacancies by Major Occupational Group
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Characteristics Associated with Job Vacancies
Northeast

• Fifty-five percent of job vacancies are
  full-time and 45 percent are part-time.
• Thirty-two percent require a high school diploma
  but no education beyond that.
• Twenty percent require some post secondary
  education or training.
• Fifteen percent require previous experience.
• Median Wage offer in the Northeast was 6.10 per
  hour.
• Median Wage offer in Duluth was 7.50 per hour.
• Twelve percent of all job vacancies offer wages
  of at least 12.00 per hour.
• Wages are highly correlated to education and
  experience requirements.
• Less than half of the job vacancies offer
• Paid vacation (35 percent)
• Sick leave (29 percent), and
• Health benefits (28 percent).
• Part-time vacancies are less likely to offer
  benefits.

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Education and Training

• 15 percent of job vacancies require a vocational
  degree, certificate, two-year degree or higher.
• High turn-over jobs require a high school degree
  or less.
• Only 14 percent of job vacancies require previous
  experience.
• 58 percent of job vacancies require no education
  or previous experience.

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Turnover-Adjusted Demand

• Four occupational groups have the greatest
  workforce demand. They are
• Healthcare Practitioners
• Food Prep
• Buildings and Grounds
• Healthcare Support

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The health care industry has had above average
job growth.
From Covered Employment and Wages
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Health care occupations continue to have high job
vacancy rates.
Job Vacancies, Second Quarter 2001
From Minnesota Job Vacancy Survey, Second Quarter
2001
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Lessons learned

• Communication of results is a challenge!
• Use State and Local Media To Get Attention

• Uses of the research
• Need to get findings into the hands of ET
  professionals
• Need to update regularly (annually) so that
  information can be used for workforce services
  planning