Collaboration with WIA and Other Customers Making Connections! ALMIS Database Seminar August 15, 2005 Presented by: Rebecca Rust Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation Labor Market Statistics

1 Session Objectives Understand how states establish relationships with customers How to satisfy customers with data

2 Labor Market Information Mission To Produce, Analyze, and Deliver Labor Statistics to Improve Economic Decision- Making

3 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

4 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 month, including: labor force, employment, unemployment, unemployment rates, and employment by industry

5 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

6 LMI Customers  Workforce / Economic Development Decision-Makers  Employers / Job Seekers  Education / Welfare Planners  Career Counselors / Teachers  Economists / Policy Makers  Elected Officials  Media

7 What’s Hot … LMI Products and Services  Labor supply for business recruitment  Job Bank transactional data base analysis for real-time supply studies  Labor cost analysis for site selection studies (wages and benefits)

8 What’s Hot …  Skills-matching analysis for reemployment analysis  Economic and disaster impact analysis for reemployment analysis and disaster relief, return on investment, and marketing  GIS (Geo-coding) maps for business and One-Stop location analysis, employment and census data

9  Vacancy / Hiring Needs surveys for targeted job training  Targeted jobs for training program design  Targeted industry selection and profiles  Industry cluster analysis for supply- chain studies What’s Hot …

10  Employer / targeted industry analysis  By employer size class  For High tech, Biotech, Photonics, Aerospace, etc.  Longitudinal job creation/destruction  Employer name and address file  Mailing labels  Physical local addresses for Homeland Defense What’s Hot …

11  Position Descriptions  Rural economic development analysis  Special employer surveys  Benefits surveys  Customer Satisfaction surveys  Sample design for ad-hoc surveys What’s Hot …

12  Localized labor market overviews / presentations  Workforce Board member (and staff) orientation / LMI training  One-Stop LMI training  O*NET training for skills matching  Training on new industry and occupational coding taxonomies What’s Hot …

13  Training for career counselors and teachers  Specialized job placement support  Data support for Job Search Workshops What’s Hot …

14  Monthly employment press releases  Census statistics including occupational commuting patterns and affirmative action  Industry employment demographics, labor turnover, and commuting patterns, Local Employment Dynamics (LED) project What’s Hot …

15  LMI Internet delivery systems  Available training and proximity of training locations What’s Hot …

16 What’s Hot …  ALMIS Database Internet Delivery Systems  Internet-based labor market and economic data base for analysts, 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  Coming soon…ADAM  Access comparable labor market information across states

17 What’s Hot … Internet based FAQs  Businesses / Employers  What is the size of the labor force in my area?  What types of industries are in my area?  What types of companies are expected to grow in my area?  What are the hot jobs in my area?  What do jobs pay in my area?  What kind of skills, knowledge, and experience do jobs require?  How many job seekers are available by occupation?  Where do I go to hire available workers?  Job Seekers  What are the hot jobs?  What do hot jobs pay?  What kind of skills, knowledge, and experience do I need for the hot jobs?  Who trains for the hot jobs?  What companies employ the hot jobs?  What kind of skills, knowledge, and experience do I need for jobs?  What jobs use my skills?  Where can I find a job?  What jobs are available now?  Where can I find training assistance?

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22 Site Selection Factors 1.Labor costs 2.Highway accessibility 3.Availability of skilled labor 4.State and local incentives 5.Energy availability and costs 6.Corporate tax rate 7.Occupancy or construction costs 8.Tax exemptions 9.Availability of telecommunications services 10.Environmental regulations 10T.Availability of high-speed Internet access 11.Cost of land Source: Area Development Site and Facility Planning, 2004 Corporate Survey 12.Availability of land 13.Low union profile 14.Proximity to major markets 15.Right-to-work state 16.Raw materials availability 17.Availability of long-term financing 18.Proximity to suppliers 19.Availability of unskilled labor 20.Accessibility to major airport 21.Training programs 22.Proximity to technical university 23.Railroad service 24.Waterway or oceanport accessibility        

23 Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation Labor Market Statistics Caldwell Building MSC G E. Madison Street Tallahassee, Florida Phone (850) FAX (850) Rebecca Rust fred.labormarketinfo.com