Notes on:
John Weber Presentation, Employment Development Department (EDD) Staff
to Experience Unlimited San Francisco General Meeting 7/21/11
Labor Market Information (LMI)
You are looking for a job. Companies are looking for people to do work to help them. Meanwhile, other people are looking for work. You need to know what what you want to do, what you have the skills to do, where the need is great, how you can make yourself more attractive than your competition. That is your landscape for hunting.
From the starting point link below, we looked at Occupational Guide and Occupational Profile. From the most popular section we looked at Occupational Employment and Wages. We also looked at Unemployment Rates and Labor Force.
We got some encouraging statistics, a low unemployment rate in San Francisco County. We have the good business paper, San Francisco Business Times. We were encouraged to step away from all the web stuff, and remember that 80 percent of jobs are filled without being advertised. Employers want your skills, but they really want a personality they can work with.
Labor Market Information (LMI) sources,
www.CalJOBS.ca.gov
www.onet.org O*Net online, U.S. Department of Labor, see also www.onetonline.org
www.bls.gov U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
www.ccsf.edu Community College of San Francisco
www.sfusd.edu San Francisco Public Schools
www.sfgov.org San Francisco City Government
www.careervoyages.gov closed March 31, 2010
now EDD
www.worksmart.ca.gov the handout has an error on this URL, missing the .ca
Green Websites/Resources
Find Employers Tool
occupations w/short training
Job Forum, Chamber of Commerce
WARN Report
www.commerce.state.il.us › ... › Workforce Development › WARN - Cached
The monthly WARN reports available here include only summary detail on the affected employers and their layoffs or plant closures. ...
