c. The Occupational Comparison Tool (http://jobs.utah.gov/wi/uocd/dashboard.html) is a unique tool to visualize and compare occupations by wages, employment growth, annual openings, and education. Powered by Tableau, this innovative tool allows users to filter the data/results by keyword, STEM/non-STEM, education requirements, job-training requirements, work experience, and occupational family.
d. In response to a request from a DWS Workforce Development Specialist, WRA created Industry Briefs (http://jobs.utah.gov/wi/pubs/industrybriefs/index.html), which provides many different measures of industry conditions for each of Utah’s nine Workforce Development regions. Each industry brief contains industry employment and wages, largest employers, …show more content…
In that review, the RO did not discover any findings, listed one Area of Concern, and documented four Positive Practices. Essentially all state LMI Departments encountered a fair number of retirements in recent years, including WRA with departure of the two previous Managers and key staff since the last review. Nevertheless, WRA has been able to manage these transitions despite these considerable challenges. WRA is comprised of three main units and a special National Systems section divided primarily by key functions with some crossover, which is common for small (and some larger) states. (The funding percentages for the WRA units are …show more content…
This unit is also responsible for contributions to WRA’s work on BLS programs, including the Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) and QCEW. Lastly, this unit also provides data analysis work for various programs including WIOA, ES, Trade, TANF, Utah’s State Longitudinal Data System (SLDS – Education), Department of Corrections, and UI special projects. ETA-LMI is the primary funding source (35%). The remainder is covered by BLS funds (30%), WIOA (15%), ES (5%), with the residual 15% covered by TANF, UI, Education, Trade, and
d. In response to a request from a DWS Workforce Development Specialist, WRA created Industry Briefs (http://jobs.utah.gov/wi/pubs/industrybriefs/index.html), which provides many different measures of industry conditions for each of Utah’s nine Workforce Development regions. Each industry brief contains industry employment and wages, largest employers, …show more content…
In that review, the RO did not discover any findings, listed one Area of Concern, and documented four Positive Practices. Essentially all state LMI Departments encountered a fair number of retirements in recent years, including WRA with departure of the two previous Managers and key staff since the last review. Nevertheless, WRA has been able to manage these transitions despite these considerable challenges. WRA is comprised of three main units and a special National Systems section divided primarily by key functions with some crossover, which is common for small (and some larger) states. (The funding percentages for the WRA units are …show more content…
This unit is also responsible for contributions to WRA’s work on BLS programs, including the Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) and QCEW. Lastly, this unit also provides data analysis work for various programs including WIOA, ES, Trade, TANF, Utah’s State Longitudinal Data System (SLDS – Education), Department of Corrections, and UI special projects. ETA-LMI is the primary funding source (35%). The remainder is covered by BLS funds (30%), WIOA (15%), ES (5%), with the residual 15% covered by TANF, UI, Education, Trade, and