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We Hear You State LMI Directors Workforce
Information Council
National Association of State Workforce Board
Chairs New York City August 26, 2003
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• We hear you
• We are responding
• We need your feedback
• We need to be proactively engaged with you
• We want stronger relations with Boards

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Competitive ChallengeBuilding a World-Class
Workforce

• Recommendation 6
• Overhaul LMI systems.to be more current,
  effective, and user friendly in providing quality
  data and analysis to make good business and
  career decisions.

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Labor Market InformationMission

• To Produce, Analyze, and Deliver Labor Statistics
  to Improve Economic Decision-Making

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LMI Program Facts

• Data collected under Federal / State Cooperative
  Statistical Programs
• Data comparable nationwide for all counties and
  metro areas
• Data meet stringent probability sampling design
  statistical methods with required response rates
  of 75 percent
• Monthly data release dates by county and metro
  area are 3 weeks after the reference period,
  including labor force, employment,
  unemployment, unemployment rates, and employment
  by industry

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LMI Statistics Produced / Delivered

• Labor Force
• Total Employment
• Employment by Industry and Occupation
• Employment Projections by Industry and Occupation
  (Demand)
• Unemployment / Unemployment Rate
• Wage by Industry and Occupation
• Census / Affirmative Action

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How LMI is Collected

• Sample-Designed Statistical Surveys from
  employers
• Econometric Modeling developed by U.S. Bureau of
  Labor Statistics
• Administrative Records from Unemployment
  Compensation

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Whats Hot for Boards LMI Products and Services

• Skills-matching analysis
• Labor supply studies for business recruitment
• Specialized job placement support based on
  analysis of employers staffing and hiring
  patterns
• Data support for Job Search Workshops
• Economic and natural disaster impact analysis

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Whats Hot for Boards

• Employer / targeted industry analysis
• By Size class
• For High tech, etc.
• Longitudinal job creation/destruction
• Employer name and address file
• Mailing labels
• Physical local addresses for Homeland Defense
• GIS (Geo-coding) maps for location analysis

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Whats Hot for Boards

• Industry Cluster analysis for economic
  development
• Job Bank transactional data base analysis
  (real-time)
• Monthly employment press releases for Workforce
  Regions

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Whats Hot for Boards

• Census statistics including commuting patterns
  and affirmative action
• Industry employment demographics, labor turnover,
  and commuting patterns by county from the Local
  Employment Dynamics (LED) project

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Whats Hot for Boards

• Sample design for ad-hoc surveys
• Vacancy / Hiring Needs surveys and Business /
  Hiring Practices surveys
• Customer Satisfaction surveys
• Special Employer surveys
• Benefits surveys

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Whats Hot for Boards Publications / Posters
for One-Stop Resource Rooms

• Career Posters
• Wage Conversion Poster
• Jobs Online Posters
• Wage Reports
• Employment Forecasts
• Occupational Highlights
• Giving Children Hope and Skills
• Career Comic Books

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Whats Hot for Boards Training

• Area overviews / presentations with current and
  localized, comparative, and time series labor
  market data for workforce / economic development
• New Board member orientation / LMI training
• One-Stop LMI training / Cyberdays for One-Stop
  Resource Room staff (Case-study analysis)
• ONET training for skills matching

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Whats Hot for Boards Training continued

• Training for Regional Labor Market Analysts
• Computer-Based training on new industry and
  occupational coding taxonomies
• Training for career counselors and teachers to
  promote career development in the education
  system

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Whats Hot for Boards

• Internet-based labor market and economic data
  base for businesses and jobseekers
• Designed to
• View current and historical data
• Ability to
• Create, view, export, and print your own tables
  and profiles by area, industry, or occupation
• Customize your own regions, graphs, maps
• Connect to job listing sites / real-time data

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• Whats Hot for Boards
• Internet based FAQs
• Job Seekers
• What jobs are growing in the area?
• What jobs are declining in the area?
• What are the hot jobs?
• Which companies employ the hot jobs?
• Which skills are needed for hot jobs?
• What kind of training do I need for hot jobs?
• Who trains for the hot jobs?
• What do hot jobs pay?
• What do all jobs pay?
• What jobs are available now?
• What jobs use similar skills?
• How do I find more information on these jobs?
• Businesses / Employers
• What is the future of the economy?
• What is the size of the labor force in the area?
• What types of industries are in the area?

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• LMI program has made progress
• But there is much more to do
• Please provide feedback to help us do a better job

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• LMI does not want to be the best kept secret
  any longer

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Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation Labor
Market Statistics Caldwell Building MSC
G-020 107 E. Madison Street Tallahassee, Florida
32399-4111 Phone [phone] FAX (850)
245-7204 Rebecca Rust Rebecca.Rust_at_awi.state.fl.u
s www.labormarketinfo.com www.workforceinfocoun
cil.org