1. RES: Strengthening Your Reemployment Efforts through Strong UI Connections
July 29, 2009
2:00 EDT

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6. Employment and Training Administration Office of Workforce Investment
Introduction
Employment and Training Administration
Office of Workforce Investment
Division of Adult Services
Kevin M. Culp, Workforce Analyst
(202)

7. Background
Today is the second in a series of Webinars provided by ETA focusing on Reemployment Services (RES) within the context of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of (ARRA)
First Webinar, “ETA’s Vision and Guidance: Using your RES Funds” available at:

8. Previous Webinar: Context
Seven Themes for Reemployment Services
Early Warning Networks and Rapid Response
Actionable Workforce Data and Information
Unemployment Insurance System Integration
Skills Assessments
Skills Transferability
Flexible Service Delivery
Invest in Technology

9. ETA Guidance on ARRA Funds
TEGL recommends four promising strategies:
Collaborate
ES, UI, WIA, LMI, TAA, NEG
Provide a full array of services
Target services using profiling scores and statistical modeling
Upgrade technology
Employment and Training Administration

10. Rethink reemployment function
Today’s Focus
Illustrate nexus between the unemployment insurance (UI) and workforce systems
Rethink reemployment function
Connect UI Claimants with critical workforce services
Vignette presentations
Tools (profiling) and best practices
Employment and Training Administration

11. Targeting UI Claimants
Triage as a Metaphor
Using data to rapidly partition people
Looking at multiple distributions
What areas yield related characteristics?
What characteristics require what services?
Can we align the preceding points?
Employment and Training Administration

12. Probability Of Exhaustion Low Wages Frequent use of UI, Seasonal Work
High
Low
(8 weeks)
Low
Wages
Frequent use of UI,
Seasonal Work
Low
Educ
Weeks of
Potential
Duration
On UI
High
Job
Tenure
Infrequent use of UI,
Non-seasonal Work
Low
Job
Tenure
High
Wages
High
Educ
High
(26 weeks)
Employment and Training Administration

13. Job Referrals Training Assessment Job Search Assistance
Probability
Of Exhaustion
Low
High
Low
(8 weeks)
Low
Wages
Job Referrals
Frequent use of UI,
Seasonal Work
Training
Low
Educ
Weeks of
Potential
Duration
On UI
High
Job
Tenure
Infrequent use of UI,
Non-seasonal Work
Low
Job
Tenure
Assessment
High
Wages
High
Educ
High
(26 weeks)
Job Search Assistance
S. Gibbons, ETA/OWS
Employment and Training Administration

14. Featured Speakers
“Finding the Missing Link: Connecting Job Seekers with Job Openings”
Yustina Saleh, Director, Labor Market & Demographic Research, NJ Department of Labor and Workforce Development
“Connecting Unemployment Insurance Claimants to Reemployment Opportunities”
Kim Morigeau, Program Specialist, Employment Security Division, NV DETR
Theresa Nicks, Chief, UI Support Services, NV DETR
Employment and Training Administration

15. Finding the Missing Link:
Connecting Job Seekers with Job Openings
Employment and Training Administration

16. Goals of this Presentation
Provide a detailed description of a new innovative tool -- Real Time Jobs in Demand Tool
Discuss various uses of the tool, including:
Linking dislocated workers with current jobs.
Linking dislocated workers with potential training programs
Create cost-effective statewide and
regional training programs
Employment and Training Administration

17. Background: Where are the Jobs Now?
Jobs are getting scarce
A lot of concerns about the relevance of our job projections
Need for all kinds of data, but no time to assimilate and synthesize all the information needed
Through various studies we identified significant resource misalignment
New Jersey

18. Background: Where are the Jobs Now?
Although the labor market seems to be getting much tighter, data revealed that there are a significant number of job openings posted on various job boards.
No information available about these job openings.
This information is crucial; it should drive our reemployment initiatives.
New Jersey

19. Data Foundation of the Tool
Real time job demand tools are based on data collected through a spidering technique.
Spider Technology: a software that queries thousands of private and government job boards and websites, newspaper classified postings and other media outlets, corporate job boards and websites, and community sites for employment opportunities.
New Jersey

20. Data Foundation of the Tool
Many states have access to job search tools that are based on spidering software
Information used primarily by job seekers and job counselors
NJ is analyzing this data to identify trends in the openings by industry and occupation.
New Jersey

21. Real Time Jobs in Demand tool has two components:
Real Time Industry Demand
Real Time Occupational Demand
New Jersey

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24. Companies Hiring: Statewide
New Jersey

25. Companies Hiring: Statewide
New Jersey

26. Real Time Jobs in Demand –
Occupational Demand:
Real Time Jobs in Demand –
A new report that has the information needed
to answer various questions, such as:
Which jobs are in demand today?
Which jobs will be in demand in the future?
Which jobs are experiencing a labor shortage?
How much are these jobs paying?
Do I have the necessary credentials for my next job?
New Jersey 26

27. Real Time Jobs in Demand
Incorporates long-term trends plus all current job openings in New Jersey
Provides information about competition over the same jobs
Based on all these factors, each job gets a "demand rank" that shows which ones are most in demand
New Jersey 27

28. Real Time Jobs in Demand
Number of New Openings based on Spidered Data
Overall Demand Rank
Standard Occupational Code (SOC) Title
Number of New Claims based on UI Administrative Records 28

29. Real Time Jobs in Demand
State Projected Number of Openings from projections data
Hourly Wage from OES
Labor Shortage is the difference between openings (C) and claims (D)

30. Real Time Jobs in Demand
BLS data on the distribution of educational attainment by occupation
Occupational Licensing Data from our Center for Occ. Info
Score is a weighted average of C, D, E, F, G
New Jersey

31. Training: College: Reflects Various Educational and Training Levels
Real Time Jobs in Demand
Reflects Various Educational and Training Levels
College:
Associate degree
Bachelor degree 
Graduate degree 
First professional degree 
Training:
Post-secondary vocational education 
Short-term on-the-job training
Moderate-term or long-term on-the-job training 31
New Jersey

32. Local Real Time Demand
New Jersey

33. Current and Potential Uses Career Counseling
Provides counselors with current and integrated information on the labor market
Provides counselors with critical information to enhance assessment and career planning services
Enhances knowledge and understanding of counselors in identifying critical occupational skill requirements and training needs
New Jersey

34. Current and Potential Uses Connecting Claimants with Jobs
Claims and job openings are both coded using the same coding system.
Batch process runs every two weeks matching the occupation Codes of UI Applicants with those of the openings. Now only linked to job orders through AOSOS
generated to applicants with links to matching jobs.
New Jersey

35. Current and Potential Uses: Planning
Tool used as the foundation for State, Regional and Local Plans
EDA currently uses tool to create business outreach plans
Locals use the tool to “ask the right question”-The Case of the Northern Region
New Jersey

36. Current Uses Identifying Skills in Demand
Jobs in Demand translated into Skills in Demand.
We now have a new “In Demand List” which provides information not only on what training programs to fund, but how many people to train.
New Jersey

37. Current Uses Identifying Skills in Demand
New Jersey

38. Current and Potential Uses: Resource Re-Alignment
Used to create “Bulk Training”
IT now matching claimants with appropriate training Opportunities—related O*NET Occupations used.
Trend data used as a framework for decision- making on allocation of training resources – labor shortage is now quantified! Maximum Number of slots determined!
Can also be used to monitor and
evaluate training allocations in
the state and local regions.
New Jersey

39. Current and Potential Uses: Where are the Green Jobs?
Many of us in the LMI community are stuck trying to define “Green Jobs”.
Current green reports and studies have over-emphasized construction and building- related jobs.
Green is much broader.
New Jersey

40. Current and Potential Uses: Where are the Green Jobs?
In New Jersey, we are moving beyond a SOC-based definition.
Our approach: examine job titles.
We indexed and coded words in job titles, such as “solar”, “wind”, “energy efficiency”, “retrofitting”, “biofuel”, “biomass”, “hydro”, etc.
New Jersey

41. Current and Potential Uses: Where are the Green Jobs?
What we found: only 5 percent of the jobs are “green collar jobs”.
The majority of the jobs are “professional/technical jobs.
Examples of jobs: solar designer, solar engineer, wind resource engineer, energy and sustainability analyst.
Tool may allow us to continuously
detect emerging occupations
and emerging skills gaps.
New Jersey

42. Jobs are scarcer, but not nonexistent!
Myths and Realities
Jobs are scarcer, but not nonexistent!
Resources are tighter, but the supply curve may be pushed!
We need to revamp our business models to optimize our utilization of new technologies.
We need to found an infrastructure of linkages to connect workforce with higher education and the industry.
New Jersey

43. For More Information Contact:
New Jersey Department of Labor & Workforce Development
Labor Market & Demographic Research
Yustina Saleh, Director
“How to Webinar” available at: /info
New Jersey

44. Nevada “Connecting Unemployment Insurance Claimants to
Reemployment Opportunities”
New Jersey

45. Truly is a “WIN-WIN” Situation
“A True Partnership”
“Nevada’s Take”
ES/UI Collaboration
Truly is a “WIN-WIN” Situation
New Jersey

46. “The Process of Reconnecting”
Job Seeker Record is Created at UI Claim Filing
Hired additional JobConnect (RES) staff
Created a Call In selection system
Crossed Trained RES/UI staff
Measure and track UI Claimant Outcomes
Nevada

47. “At the Initial Claim Filing…”
UI staff enter ONET code or codes on initial claim
An ES registration is created
The claimant is encouraged to visit the nearest JobConnect Center
Reemployment services can be offered immediately
Nevada

48. Worker Profiling Orientation
Provides Reemployment Services Information and Assists UI
Provides Labor Market Information
Focuses on Service Provider Collaboration
Encourages customer choice
Standardized UI reporting
Eligibility Review
Work search Requirements
ID verification
Nevada

49. Reemployment Service RES/REA Grants
Nevada participates in both the RES and REA initiatives:
Used funds to hire additional JobConnect Staff:
RES/REA staff provide reemployment services to UI claimants
Uses call in system to select UI claimants to receive reemployment services.
Nevada

50. UI Claimant Call In Selection System
Nevada

51. Crossed Trained RES/UI Staff
Critical that RES/UI Staff understand their role
Step-by-step procedures developed for RES/UI staff to follow
RES staff are trained on UI eligibility identification/UI Work Test
UI staff are trained on O*NET Coding and RES JobConnect activity.
Nevada

52. Nevada’s RES/REA Goals
RES goals:
Entered Employment
UI Duration – Trust Fund Savings
REA goals:
Assessments
Nevada

53. Entered Employment Report
Nevada

54. The Purpose of the UI Duration Report is:
To compare the number of checks
received by UI claimants that have
been enrolled into a particular program
(RES/REA/WPRS etc.) with UI
claimants that have not been enrolled.
Nevada

55. Employers/Job Seekers WIN
Trust Fund Savings – direct cost savings to employers
Entered Employments – returns skilled workers to employment
Nevada

56. For More Information Contact:
State of Nevada
Department of Employment, Training & Rehabilitation
Employment Security Division
Kim Morigeau, ESD Program Specialist III
Workforce Investment Support Services
(775) Or
Theresa Nicks, Chief, UI Support Services
(775)
Nevada

57. Please enter your questions into the Chat Room!
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58. Future Webinars
ETA is in the process of planning a third RES Technical Assistance Webinar.
Recommendations for topics? What specifically about Reemployment Services? ARRA?
e.g., More information on what other states/local areas are doing, promising practices, available technology
Nevada

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