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Below is a listing of all items appearing in the ARC Headline News section for the past year.
5/8/2013
Have you wished for an easy-to-use repository of recent workforce development research? Are you looking for ways to get the word out about your organizations workforce development-related research findings? Do you have clients in the workforce system who need access to evidence-based findings? Take a look at the Employment and Training Administrations (ETA) new technical assistance tool, Workforce System Strategies.
5/8/2013
WorkForce3One's Labor Market Information WIN-WIN Network Community of Practice has a variety of tools that can be utilized to enhance services and bolster performance in employment, training and education programs:
5/8/2013
CareerOne-Stop offers 7 User Guides that have been designed to show how competency models can be used to support workforce development efforts. The guides contain background information, resources, and recommendations. They can also be be used in conjunction with other tools found in the CareerOne-Stop Competency Model Clearinghouse.
5/8/2013
View the ETA's Labor Market Information presentation LMI You Can Use! This webinar shares resources and strategies that will help you develop a better understanding of local, state, and national LMI, and help your customers make more informed decisions about the types of jobs and careers they would like to pursue.
4/26/2013
The Office of Management and Budget has redefined the contents of many of the nation's Core-Based Statistical Areas (metropolitan, micropolitan, metro divisions and combined statistical areas) based on new commuting patterns and population data. WID GEOG and SUBGEOG tables are available for downloading that include these revisions.
4/11/2013
The Employment and Training Administration has announced a number of additions and enhancements to its suite of electronic tools. Updates include a new Business Center, development of mobile versions of several of the tools, Spanish translations of a number of E-Tool sites and several enhancements to the CareerOneStop Certification Finder.
3/1/2013
The Employment and Training Administration has released the second edition of their popular Guide to State and Local Workforce Data. This revision contains a variety of new data sources and updates to links and data sources from the first version. You can download the document from the Workforce3Ones Labor Market Information Win-Win network community of practice page or by clicking on the headline to this article.
2/1/2013
The National O*NET Center has developed a Spanish-language version of their online career exploration application, My Next Move. The application includes a variety of search methods: keyword, industry and personal interests included. The site also offers links to other Spanish content, including certifications, training programs and more.
1/3/2013
The Census Bureau has released its 2006-2010 American Community Survey Equal Employment Opportunity Tabulation. This resource, the fifth in a series released following each decennial census since 1970, was developed at the request of four federal agencies that monitor employment practices and enforce federal civil rights laws for the workplace. It consists of 107 tables, and includes topics ranging from detailed occupation, income, educational attainment, industry, unemployment status, and citizenship. For more information, visit the Census Bureaus EEO Resources Page. Selected tables are available for downloading from the American Factfinder web site, and more will be released in 2013.
12/10/2012
This newletter containines lots of items we think that state DBAs and others in the workforce information community will find intersting. It includes information on webinars that cover My Next Move and My Next Move for Veterans, Career OneStop and the Worker Reemployment Portal on Career OneStop. The Labor Market Information Community of Practice has added a webinar on State LMI Improvement Grants, along with guides on Understanding Layoff and Dislocated Worker Data and Data Sources for Workers with Disabilities.
11/5/2012
Items of interest to the Workforce Information community: The Labor Market Information Win-Win Network community no includes a new Skill Shortage, Mismatch and Deficiency Repository, and Green Jobs and Career Pathways, research produced under the 2009 ETA Research Papers Program.
11/5/2012
The Department of Labor and fifteen other federal agencies have teamed up with FEMA to create a web resource with links to a number of recovery resources for those affected by recent natural disasters. Visitors can use the sight to apply for assistance, locate temporary shelters or housing, find local resources and check their application status. The page has news feeds for New York, Rhode Island and Connecticut residents who are feeling the impact of Hurricane Sandy and for Utah which has been hit by severe storms and flooding.
10/18/2012
The executive branch of the federal government has been busy inventorying what federal agencies are now doing on the Internet, and mapping some next steps to make government information more accessible to its citizens.
9/1/2012
The Workforce3One August newsletter has been published. It contains several features that may be of interest to the workforce information community, including: new and improved features for the Workforce3One home page, articles on college degrees, jobs to career strategies for health care workforce, and information on Workforce3One webinars.
8/16/2012
The Bureau of Labor Statistics periodically conducts surveys of businesses and individuals. But what is done with the information collected during the surveys? Why should someone participate? Who can I call if I want more information about the survey? You may receive questions like these - and now BLS has come up with a helpful website that you can use to answer these questions - it is the BLS Survey Respondent webpage, and it gives general information about the surveys conducted by BLS, as well as links to survey specific pages.
ETA Features On-line Tools
8/16/2012
The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) has developed a series of short video demonstrations featuring some of their most popular online tools. Here are links to three of them:
CareerOneStop mySkills my Future Veterans ReEmployment Portal 7/12/2012
BLS recently premiered a new publication called Beyond the Numbers. This publication will serve as a source of timely, interesting analysis of BLS data and trends. Beyond the Numbers brings together the analyses previously found in Issues in Labor Statistics, Focus on Prices and Spending, Program Perspectives, Regional Reports, and OES Highlights. The first article in Beyond the Numbers, "International air passenger fares shrug off the recession," discusses how the price of international airfare changed during and after the recent global recession. The second article, "How new fees are affecting the Producer Price Index for air travel," examines how the introduction of baggage and cancellation fees affects the price of domestic airfare.
6/23/2012
The U.S. Department of Labor recently announced a new online tool that will allow current and prospective health care workers to explore more than 80 different occupations, identify local education and training programs, and tap into current job listings. Through the Virtual Career Network, users also can learn how previous experience such as military or on-the-job training can be applied toward a health care career, take free online courses and find sources of financial aid.
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