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CREC Releases Manufacturing Job Openings Data for Massachusetts
February 8, 2012
Burning Glass Technologies recently partnered with the Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness on a study of manufacturing jobs in the state of Massachusetts during the 2011 calendar year.
The full report is available for viewing on CREC's web site.
Labor dept. revs its new search engine, says it will help jobseekers customize resumes
January 20, 2012
The New Jersey Department of Labor showed off its new job search engine yesterday at the One-Stop Career Center on Broad Street in Newark. Jobseekers can use the search engine, which appears on Jobs4Jersey.com, to comb through listings on 2,4000 websites, and next month employers will be able to post openings to OnRamp directly.
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The U.S. Labor Market in Real Time: Occupations, Certifications, and Skills that Employers Want to Hire
December 21, 2011
By most traditional measures the U.S. economy remains sluggish and reluctant to add jobs. There are however other “signs of life” in the labor market. The typical measures of labor market performance are made up of net numbers resulting from the difference between jobs added and jobs lost. New real time labor market information technologies provide a more current and deeper look at what employers want and serve as an important complement to traditional employment statistics.
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Burning Glass Real-Time LMI Data Provides Insight into U.S. Manufacturing Jobs
November 9, 2011
The Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness has released its analysis of the U.S. manufacturing sector for the first half of 2011. Burning Glass’s granular jobs data, which uses our patented technology to extract detailed information from online job postings, including number of openings and employer requirements for skills, experience, education, certifications, etc., served as the data source. The report provides insight into employment trends for the manufacturing sector, including:
- Only 9% of almost 669,000 online job openings were production-related
- Jobs were concentrated in major metropolitan areas along the Atlantic seaboard, in the Midwest, and in Texas and California
- Almost 25% of jobs were in just three industries (computer & peripheral equipment manufacturing, aerospace product & parts manufacturing, and pharmaceutical & medicine manufacturing)
- Openings were concentrated in sales and management, engineering, and production occupations requiring significant prior work experience
- More than 50% of all jobs required more than a HS diploma, with approx. 25% of production-related jobs requiring more than a HS diploma
- Only 7% of jobs included a stated certification requirement, with many of those related to lean manufacturing
Click here to access the full report. For more information on Burning Glass’s real-time LMI data, click here.
Burning Glass's Real-Time Labor Market Data To Help Colleges Align Curriculum to Needs of Regional Economies
September 19, 2011
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