Users can analyze any single or multiple local Texas WIB areas for single or multiple timeframes. Report outputs provide actionable information, including customized cluster staffing patterns, extensive occupational characteristics data, supply and demand profiles, and skills gap analysis based on DWAs, to inform WIBs of a wide range of training investment decisions. LMCI developed SWAP in response to a State legislative requirement for the Governor to create a statewide economic development plan based on competitive industry clusters. The TWC led a collaborative effort to define (operationally) those clusters, and subsequently established cluster teams of knowledgeable industry, education, and workforce leaders. The teams met to assess the clusters and their business needs. A common finding of each cluster assessment was the need for an analysis of the State’s economy that would focus on employers’ workforce needs relative to each cluster. These findings mandated the SWAP …show more content…
Supporting the TWC’s WIA and ES functions, Texas Work Prep contains three on-line courses, each designed to communicate unique aspects of successful job hunting and excelling on the job. In addition each course ties into an existing popular LMCI publications: 1) Texas Job Hunter’s Guide, 2) Your Next Job, and 3) Succeed at Work. The goal is to help job seekers master an effective job search process, get back to work quicker, and communicate the attributes of work excellence expected by Texas employers. This innovative approach extends TWC’s vast array of training capabilities and subject matter across the entire State efficiently in terms of time and cost. NOTE: ETA would like LMCI to expand its Texas Work Prep offerings to include sessions on career exploration concepts and tips; LMI 101 (basic LMI concepts, tips, data sets, and resources); and the use of LMCI’s various LMI