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Below is a listing of all items appearing in the ARC Headline News section for the past year.
7/21/2010
The Career OneStop web site has added a page with resources to help former Census 2010 workers with their transition to other employment when their work with the Census Bureau has ended. The site contains links to state-specific unemployment insurance, training, career and job sites.
7/8/2010
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has developed an interactive state and county map application. It displays geographic economic data through maps, charts, and tables, allowing users to explore employment and wage data of private industry at the National, State, and county level. The source data are taken from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) program.
7/1/2010
The National O*NET Center has released version 15 of the O*NET Database as a development version. This version will go into production in the O*NET Online application this fall. The NCSC has developed a Visual FoxPro database containing the release along with supplemental crosswalk and lookup files.
6/30/2010
CareerOneStop has developed links to resources for those impacted by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
6/16/2010
With the recent release of an updated Standard Occupational Classification (2010 SOC), the O*NET project is moving forward with plans to transition the O*NET-SOC Taxonomy to this new SOC standard. For the first step of this transition, the O*NET project developed a crosswalk from the current O*NET-SOC taxonomy to the new 2010 SOC. Download a copy of this new crosswalk and other O*NET-SOC crosswalks from the National Crosswalk Service Center site.
6/2/2010
CareerOneStop has developed a new site for students, parents, and career advisors to use when they are exploringing career and education options.
5/27/2010
Presentations from the 2010 C2ER Annual Conference and LMI Training Institute Annual Forum are now available online.
5/18/2010
The Department of Labor is inviting members of the public to produce and submit short (1 to 3 minute) videos focusing on the daily activities, necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities of one of 15 high-growth occupations. Videos need to be submitted by June 18, 2010. Top video entries win cash prizes!
4/7/2010
O*NET has identified a list of over 200 green occupations. Check out CareerOneStop's new Green Careers Section for more information and to explore the impact of green economic activities on occupations and job duties.
4/1/2010
The Bureau of Labor and Statistics have added a new feature to their website. In addition to saving their query output files as an HTML table or a Text file, users are now able to to save their output as an Excel (XLS) file.
4/1/2010
Each occupation report from O*NET OnLine now includes related industry employment information. In addition, there is a new "Browse by Industry" feature that lets you learn which occupations can be found within 20 broad industries.
3/18/2010
The Employment and Training Administration has launched the Reemployment Works! Community of Practice in the Workforce3One web site in order to cultivate a regionalized response that encourages innovation in the workforce reemployment system, through the creation of a new and unified vision to reemploy the unemployed.
Career Voyages Website Closing
2/23/2010
As of March 31, 2010, the Career Voyages website is no longer operational. Students, parents and career changes are being directed to explore careers and learn more about training and educational opportunities at CareerOneStop and O*Net OnLine
2/10/2010
The Recent Stories section of O*NET Products at Work has been updated with new stories describing how users (businesses, educational institutions, government agencies, military services, researchers) have leveraged O*NET products and tools to improve their programs and provide services to customers.
Short-Term Training Finder
2/9/2010
CareerOneStop's new Short-term Training Finder lets you search for training programs in your local area where you can earn a certificate, diploma, or award in less than two years.
2/1/2010
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has developed several crosswalk files that link occupations from the Occupational Outlook Handbook to other resources. Included are links from OOH titles to their O*NET equivalents and a file that contains the Internet addresses (URLs) for OOH statements. Find links to these resources on the BLS Employment Projections Classifications and Crosswalks page.
2/1/2010
Mark your calendars for this year's LMI Forum. The 2010 LMI Forum is the first co-sponsored with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), which will be held May 18 - 21, 2010 in Washington, DC.
2/1/2010
The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) has launched the Green Jobs Community of Practice (CoP). The Green Jobs CoP will serve three primary purposes: platform for workforce professionals and green job thought leaders to discuss and share promising practices and provide technical assistance.
2/1/2010
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has recently posted new information about the 2010 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) on their web site. A document on the page contains classification principles and coding guidelines for the new SOC, as well as a crosswalk linking the 2000 and 2010 versions of the classification.
12/17/2009
The Department of Labor invites the workforce development system to participate in the Tools for America's Job Seekers Challenge. The Challenge seeks to help jobseekers and workforce development professionals identify and use online job search and career advancement tools. The Challenge utilizes an innovative method called crowdsourcing to allow jobseekers and workforce development professionals to recommend and comment on job search and career advancement tools. An orientation webinar is planned for January 10, 2010.
12/17/2009
The 2010-11 editions of the Occupational Outlook Handbook and the Career Guide to Industries have been released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Considered the Government's premier source of career information, the Handbook and Career Guide profile hundreds of occupations and dozens of industries, respectively. Both publications are available online.
12/11/2009
December 10, 2009 - BLS reported that total employment is projected to increase by 15.3 million, or 10.1 percent, during the 2008-18 period.
The 2010-11 editions of the Occupational Outlook Handbook and the Career Guide to Industries will feature the 2008-18 projections.
11/16/2009
The Workforce Information Council has released a special report Measurement and Analysis of Employment in the Green Economy. There is no common definition of "green" jobs nor any common manner to analyze the "green" economy. This document analyzes definitions and approaches taken in existing research, focusing on studies done in California, Michigan, Oregon, Washington, Connecticut and New York.
11/2/2009
Topics include: What MLS Business Processes & Functions Data Mean,
Green Jobs: Definitions and Analysis, and Economic Impact Studies: Using Regional Input-Out.
10/29/2009
Connections is a quarterly electronic publication from CareerOneStop. This month articles includes tips for overqualified job seekers, short-term training opportunites, and finding ways to help pay for training.
10/13/2009
The workplace is going green and so are the O*NET web sites! Each of the O*NET web sites (O*NET Resource Center, O*NET OnLine, and O*NET Code Connector) has a new look with improved site navigation, new features, and considerable emphasis on green jobs and the green economy.
8/30/2009
The Workforce Information Council (WIC) has been working together for over ten years to plan, guide, and oversee the nationwide workforce information system. Their website is a great resource for meeting notes from OES, QCEW, CES, and LAUS & MLS Policy Councils and standing work groups (e.g. Green Jobs). Please visit their website at www.workforceinfocouncil.org to discover more about the WIC and their activities. Who's your state rep?
8/30/2009
The International Labour Organization has recently released the sixth edition of its Key Indicators of the Labour Market resource (KILM). The KILM compares 20 "key" indicators of labor market conditions in over 200 countries. The KILM can be downloaded or used online.
8/12/2009
O*Net has redesigned its Code Connector website. The site provides improved, more user friendly assistance to workforce professionals who are determining the correct O*NET-SOC codes for job orders, job applicants, and UI claimants. Key items from the O*NET Database are displayed so that workforce personnel can quickly select an O*NET-SOC code.
8/10/2009
The LMI Training Institute announces a new Board lineup and a new management structure for 2009-2010. The Missouri Economic Research and Information Center serves as the administrator of the Institute and has contracted with the Council for Community and Economic Research as part of an effort to re-energize the Institute and better align its offerings to meet the needs of producers and users of local economic and workforce data.
8/9/2009
Keep up with the latest news on the 2010 Census (including a ticking countdown!) at www.2010census.gov.
8/1/2009
The National Associations of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA) held their annual conference in Niagara Falls, NY September 23-25. Presentations from the conference are now available for viewing.
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