Seminar Presentations

The following presentations were presented at the "ARC Seminar 2008: Transforming Information for the Future" October 28 - 30, 2008. The presentations below require Microsoft PowerPoint unless otherwise noted. Please click here to download the free viewer.
Do you know what place of work vs. place of residence has to do with employment data? How about counts of jobs vs. counts of workers? The difference between an industry and an occupation? What QCEW stands for? This workshop will answer those questions and provide other information on what LMI is and how it is developed
Number of Slides: 25
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The Analyst Resource Center and the National Crosswalk Service Center provide a variety of technical, information, and other services that help keep states' databases running smoothly. Learn about the latest development here.
Number of Slides: 6
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Do you know what your customers need? Have you sought ways to expand your customer base? This session will address the relationship between the workforce information professional and the users of their information.
Number of Slides: 14
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Learn about the redesigned web-tool that offers career resources and workforce information to job seekers, students, businesses, and workforce professionals to foster talent development in a global economy. The ETA-sponsored CareerOneStop system provides a robust resource for employment and career management information to help guide users achieve career success. The session will cover the re-engineered CareerOneStop system and its cornerstone applications (America's Career Infonet and America's Service Locator), other key tools and developments such as the new Regional Economic Development sub-portal, competency Model Clearinghouse, and Career Lattice tools will also be highlighted.
Number of Slides: 69
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Creating, Building, and Maintaining Strong Product Identities

Whether your audience has never heard of LMI or just thinks it is too technical, quantity of data is irrelevant if no one uses it. This workshop will include highlights of a "trophy" presentation given to Wyoming employers showing them how to use LMI in their hunt for employees. This session will also include considerations for developing a brand identity and provide information on implementing the WID logo into state applications and products.
Number of Slides: 39
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A unique view from the ETA Regional Office perspective including current status, challenges, and opportunities will be given by an ETA veteran whose involvement in Workforce Information pre-dates ETA's 1995 re-emergency in LMI.
Number of Slides: 11
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A review of current and upcoming initiatives at ETA, and how those initiative are likely to drive the data needs of our customers. Learn how states can use their information resources and contacts to better position themselves to meet the future informational requirements of national, state, and local customers in a changing economic and social climate.
 
Has your office been asked to supply any of the following to the media, public officials or workforce preparation partners: the number of green collar workers employed in your state (by industry, occupation, substate region); employment demand forecast for green collar workers; supply of green collar workers (for the state and by region or labor shed); and green skill gap projections? Wouldn't it be nice, before trying to provide meaningful numbers, to have an operational definition of "green collar" jobs?
Number of Slides: 13
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This session will provide an overview and update of recently completed projects as well as information about projects currently underway for LED, the O*NET program and Projections.
Number of Slides: 20
View PowerPoint File   Natural disasters are hard to predict and difficult to analyze. Despite their economic and workforce implications, analysts still struggle to get a handle of potential impact due mostly to lags in relevant data. An attempt is made in this presentation to enumerate and estimate potential impact that would assist analysts and policy makers to deal with the resultant economic and workforce issues.
Number of Slides: 44
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There is more than one approach to delivering workforce information. WID Administrators across the country have developed a variety of creative and effective methods to deliver quality information to their customers. This session will showcase this year's finalists for the WID Excellence in Information Award.
Number of Slides: 18
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Less than 10 years after its establishment, the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership has built not only a truly unique collaborative effort between the federal government and the partner states, but also an emerging, innovative 21st century statistical system, form which new and unprecedented data and products can be created. For example, the recent release of OnTheMap version 3 now provides online 24/7 free mapping and reporting capabilities for 45 states and 5 years of annual data for 2002-2006 that are unmatched in both public and private sectors. How does it work? And what is in the future? Come and find out.
Number of Slides: 20
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The OSDS (www.occsupplydemand.org) combines national and state-level occupational characteristics, projections, wage trends, licensing data, and industry employment (demand) with post secondary graduation data (supply) for analysis of labor markets and training options. The OSDS contains high-demand, high-wage and high-skill occupations based on a state's criteria in response to Perkins IV legislation. OSDS helps business and industrial analysts, program planners, workforce administrators and others determine labor availability and training programs offerings based on the supply demand mix.
Number of Slides: 8
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This session pulls it all together with perspectives and the power of labor market information in the public and private arenas: how we support and facilitate decision-making throughout the economy
Number of Slides: 34
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An introduction to web application development using open source products.  Special emphasis will be placed on building Rich Internet Applications using Web 2.0 technology.   This session will teach general web development principles that can be applied in a variety of different software products and server environments.
Number of Slides: 35
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As we prepare to hit the RESET button on a faltering U.S. economy, having good information for sound decision-making will be an even more valuable resource. Prosperity will flow to those state,s regions , and communities who know the 3 C's of economic development success and to those who effectively transform information for the future.
Number of Slides: 20
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Recent breaches of security in various government organizations have exposed sensitive information of thousands of our country's citizens. Those headline news stories have re-emphasized the need to carefully review how the public-funded workforce development system works to secure customers information. this session focuses on risk identification and most importantly how to create and implement secure business processes.
Number of Slides: 29
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SQL (Structured Query Language) is an ANSI (American National Standards Institute) standard computer language for accessing and manipulating database systems. The workshop will focus on basic SQL commands such as SELECT, UPDATE, DELETE, INSERT, and WHERE.
Number of Slides: 21
View PowerPoint File This presentation focused on several labor market information (LMI) products and services provided by the Workforce Information Council. A sort description of this unique federal-state partnership was given along with a view of current WIC work and areas of emphasis. Is LMI making a difference in program performance, outcome measurements and policy development? Do all those numbers really make a difference?
Number of Slides: 20
View PowerPoint File This workshop focused on the history of the Analyst Resource Center. In addition, we received an overview of the Workforce Information Database structure - including tables, primary and foreign keys, triggers, and version changes.
Number of Slides: 27
View PowerPoint File Good information about data sources is hard to find. This workshop gave a tour of the newly established ARC Wiki and an overview of its intended uses.
Number of Slides: 7
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