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Employment and work solutions have been a major focus for the Heldrich Center since its inception in 1997. The Center has been examining workforce practices across the United States and offering solutions that benefit workers, job seekers, employers, and policymakers. Explore some of these efforts and our research findings below.

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Read on to explore publications from the Heldrich Center's research on workforce practices.

Tools for Navigating Today's Labor Market: A Vital Role for States

2005-11-28

Individuals need easily accessible, easy-to-understand information to successfully navigate the ever-changing U.S. labor market. Internet tools are one way to effectively and efficiently convey such information to users. This paper explores the role state governments can play in creating such resources. It specifically examines how the State of New Jersey, with the assistance of the Heldrich Center, created two Web-based resources that provide students, job seekers, and workers with the information they need to make informed decisions about careers and further education. The paper also explores the value of such resources and illustrates some of the key lessons for creating a successful information resource.

Publication Type: Program Evaluation/Best Practices

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Unlocking the Treasure Chest of Labor Market Information: Crucial Information for Job Seekers, Educators, and Employers in a Tough Economy

2009-02-12

Quality labor market data and analysis is critical to developing effective market-driven workforce and economic strategies in states, regions, and localities. Such information can be complex, intimidating, and overwhelming to many users, however. This issue brief offers a framework for understanding workforce information, including a summary of the different types of consumers of information and their need for comprehensive data and analysis about the labor market. It identifies the publicly available information sources that produce the data and provides suggestions on how to identify and address the gaps between user needs and the availability of reliable and timely data and analytical capacity to enable effective and informed decision-making by data consumers. Finally, it recommends ways in which states and local areas can make workforce information more readily available to consumers who must make important decisions.

Publication Type: Additional Workforce Research

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Unlocking the Treasure Chest of Labor Market Information: Crucial Information for Job Seekers,Educators, and Employers in a Tough Economy

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