1. HWOL Info Session Help-Wanted Online (HWOL) Jennifer James
Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development

2. Agenda Intros Overview of the Project Overview of the Data
Overview of the Dashboard
Product Examples
Discussion

3. The Project
Provide access to real-time data on employer hiring needs and analytics of on-line job posting data at the state and sub-state levels to:
Better understand hiring trends
Better understand education and skill requirements
Customize employer outreach efforts
Customize information for job seekers and preparation strategies
Provide job seeker access to largest pool of job postings through JobQuest Job Bank (
Job bank expanded from 40,000 jobs to 90,000 in first month
The Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, its Departments of Unemployment Assistance and Career Services, the Executive Office of Education, the Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development, the Department of Higher Education, the Community Colleges Executive Office, and the consortium of community colleges represented in the USDOL funded “Transformation” Grant

4. HWOL Data Source
Web-based job advertisements in all the major job boards (USDOL national job bank, Monster, CareerBuilder, Commonwealth of Massachusetts etc),
Craig’s List is included in Hiring Dashboard
Jobs recruited by One-Stop Career Centers
Company websites (the tool “crawls” to private sector websites to grab jobs)
Accuracy? New LMI capacity/less regulated, expect duplicates, online bias, NAICS limited etc
Nothing replaces a conversation with an employer. This is a dart board.

5. Wanted Analytics Dashboard
Log in ( and assigned password)
Click on “hiring demand dashboard”
Overview of Navigation:
Left Side of Dashboard = Controls
Set filters and settings (endless choices: geography, employer, industry, occupation, key word etc)
Right Side of Dashboard = Results
View Results
Compare time periods
Download spreadsheets with data

6. Filters
My Market Baseline: Massachusetts, excludes MISC postings, AVAILABLE Unique Ads (not just new)
Employers OR Employer Type
Industries: NAICS or type in a name
Occupations: 6 digit level (Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) codes:
Locations: State, city/town, county, MSA, 16 Workforce Board (saved filters or auto type)
KeyWord: Associate’s Degree, AutoCAD
Job Type: Full Time, Part Time etc

7. Products & Uses Employer Outreach
Downloads for Hiring Reports (arrow button on any dashboard table):
Customized:
Employers with largest number of openings
Occupations with largest number of openings
Florida report
Talent Sourcing Report (under “Jobs” Tab)
Staff Job Opening Alerts (under “Jobs Tab”)
Regional Partnerships

8. Employer Outreach How is this tool relevant to employers?
The DASHBOAD TOOL is not intended for direct employer access. A staff person who is working with employers may want to use the tool in the following ways:
Providing information to employers on other employers in their industry in the region.
Providing information on an occupation that an employer is looking to fill (What are the average job ads like? What education requirements? What specific skills are asked for?)
Business Service Representatives may want to use it to identify employers for recruitment purposes.
Review the companies with the most job ads?
Review companies in an industry that are posting ads?
Setup “alerts” in the system to flag when employers in their region post new ads and then outreach to the employer. (Franklin Hampshire best practice)

9. Hiring Reports
Any of the tables on the dashboard can be downloaded to tables to generate report. Example: Radiology Tech ( )
Dashboard: Set the filters (geography, occupation, employer? keyword?)
Download tables
Customize report
“Jobs Tab” report tools: Set Filters(geography, occupation, employer? keyword?)
Talent Sourcing Report –”Generate Report” (demo)
“export” tool – excel spreadsheet (demo)

10. Alerts
SIMPLE: Go to “Jobs” tab, set filters – click “alerts” and add addresses.
Example: Franklin Hampshire Career Centers
Alerts to (WIA) Job Counselor or job seekers using a set of search parameters and scheduled weekly alerts
Filters:
GEOGRAPHY: Immediate geographic area (Franklin/Hampshire) plus a major neighboring city (Holyoke) 
EDUCATION: filter to only show us jobs up to an Associate’s degree (as we also work with Trade customers)
JOB TYPE: hose full-time and permanent jobs (to try to exclude temp and part-time)
The excel file has the potential to be a strong tool for case mangers as you are able to extract job posting summaries along with a direct link to the actual job posting.

11. Strategy & Regional Partnerships
North Shore WIB & Operation Bootstrap:
WIB provided Operation Bootstrap information on job openings within the manufacturing industry to communicate information to their customers.
Report filtered by education filters (HS Dipolma & below), Geographic (Essex County), and Industry (Manufacturing NAICS 31-33).
Job count results were tabulated in Excel and given to Operation Bootstrap.
Operation Bootstrap helped customers to:
understand where jobs were located, who was hiring, and what occupations were currently in demand
Use information in making job search and training decisions

12. Education & Training Pathways
Northeast Advanced Manufacturing Consortium grant:
Question: Decision to focus on mechanical, electrical training or offer both.
Solution: USED HWOL to review existing manufacturing jobs available that require mechanical or electrical training as a pathway to employment.
Search criteria: using the following filters Geographic (Northeast of MA (North Shore WIA, Merrimack Valley, Greater Lowell WIA, Metro North WIA)), Educational Attainment (Associates degree or less), and Occupational title (manually selected SOC codes to which were related to the training).
Compared the results for both Mechanical and Electronic based skills and found them to have a similar number of openings.
RESULTS: The HWOL results, along with employer surveys and employer conversations created a training program that incorporated both electrical and mechanical skill sets.

13. Contacts Technical Questions: Regional Examples:
Jeanne Shu, Manager, HWOL
Will Sinatra, North Shore WIB
Michael Baines, Franklin Hampshire REB
Project Questions:
Dan Rhayne, Franklin Hampshire Career Center
Jennifer James, EOLWD
Larry Martin, Hampden County REB
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