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Employment and Training Institute Job Vacancy SurveysThe Employment and Training Institute of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee conducts annual surveys of employers in the Milwaukee metropolitan labor market for the Private Industry Council of Milwaukee County to determine the number and types of jobs open for immediate hire. Milwaukee was the first major city in the U.S. to regularly survey job vacancies in order to assess the number and type of jobs available and the level of skill training employers need to fill openings. The findings are used by the Private Industry Counc il to meet the needs of the Workforce Investment Act and by local governments and schools to help define their training priorities.
The Milwaukee job vacancy studies were initiated in 1993 at the request of the City of
Milwaukee in collaboration with Milwaukee Area Technical College, the Milwaukee Public Schools,
and the Private Industry Council of Milwaukee County, and with funding support from the
government partners and the Helen Bader Foundation. In 2006 the survey was expanded from the four counties of the Milwaukee metropolitan area to include all seven counties of the
Milwaukee Region.
The Surveys of Job Openings are based on a stratified
sample
of companies listed by the Wisconsin Department of Workforce
Development as doing business in Milwaukee, Ozaukee,
Washington, Waukesha, Racine, Kenosha and Walworth counties. In May
2006, 3,312 companies participated in the
survey and 4,652 individual job title listings were analyzed for their
education and training requirements. Data are collected on
expected rates of pay, education and training required, jobsite location,
and whether the job is considered difficult to fill. Survey results
are tabulated and weighted by size and type of industry and by
response rate to project the total number and type of jobs available
in the metropolitan area and the region.
In 1998 the Employment and Training Institute
prepared a manual for the U.S. Department of Labor on
Surveying Job Vacancies in Local Labor Markets. The manual, available
online, provides information on job vacancy survey design, sampling,
methodology, weighting, survey administration, data verification, and
data analyses issues. Uses of job openings data to assess spatial and skills
mismatches within subareas of the labor market and to target training
and transportation strategies are also described.
Job openings surveys using the UWM-ETI methodology are now used by at least 15 states, major metropolitan areas, and scores of urban and rural counties. |
