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ONET Resource Center: Workforce development and workforce training. Provides a comprehensive collection of data and training related to ONET usage, training, partnerships, and updates. ONET Online: dictionary of occupational titles. ONET Online is an application that was created for the general public to provide broad access to the ONET database of occupational job outlook information. The ONET database includes information on skills, abilities, knowledge, work activities, and interests associated with occupations. This information can be used to facilitate career development, career counseling, and a variety of human resources functions, such as developing job orders and writing job descriptions and aligning workforce training with current workplace needs. ONET career development test and what's new section, review directory of occupational titles and guidelines for writing job descriptions. ONET training and awareness provides information on workforce training and workforce development. This site has been created for knowledge and information sharing, community building, and training. Use this site to stay abreast of project initiatives and share your thoughts and feedback. Career
One Stop: Career
Resources at
Career One Stop, the nation's most
powerful online career
development resource, provides direct Internet-based access for
Americans needing job search assistance, career
guidance, salary data, workforce
training and education resources National Association of State Work Force Agencies/(CESER): Career guidance and occupational outlook from the National Association of State Workforce Agencies. This national organization of state administrators of unemployment insurance, employment and workforce training services, and job outlook information programs provide a great resource for workforce training. The mission of NASWA is to strengthen the National Workforce Development Network through information exchange, liaison and advocacy. The Center for Employment Security Education and Research is the education and research arm of NASWA devoted to improving government services to America's workers and employers. Workforce Institute of America: Workforce Institute of America (WIA) is the latest innovation in workforce development. Through unique arrangements with leading workforce experts, CESER has created the Workforce Institute of America to provide career resources with opportunities to build staff skills through workforce training, consultation and information. Bureau
of Labor Statistics:
Writing
job descriptions,
researching job
outlooks, job
descriptions salaries or looking for free
job descriptions the
Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the
Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.
BLS seeks to produce impartial, timely, and accurate data relevant to
the needs of its users and to the social and economic conditions of the
Nation, its workers, its workplaces, and the workers' families. BLS also
strives to improve accuracy, efficiency, and relevance of economic measures
and program outputs through increased application of state-of-the-art
statistical techniques, economic concepts, technology, and management
processes. Professional Associations and Resources Americas Career InfoNet: Career development test site offering career guidance to job seekers. American Association for Training and Development: Workforce training and workforce development resources for professionals in the career development industry. American Labor Market Information System (ALMIS): Occupational job outlook and workforce development information at the America's Labor Market Information System (ALMIS) plays an essential role in streamlining and integrating the maze of career resources programs that seek to serve the employment and workforce training needs of Americans. ALMIS is developing, primarily through the efforts of consortia of states, an interactive infrastructure of national application systems, i.e., America's Job Bank (AJB) and America's Career InfoNet (ACINet), that are logically connected by technical standards and a common language, i.e., O*NET coding. These national systems are being supported by various additional efforts undertaken by consortia leading to common state application development and standardized approaches to LMI. ALMIS offers more than information for the planning of employment and workforce training programs. ALMIS offers direct access by anyone--employers, job seekers or students--to state-of-the-art information services. In the same way that One-Stop Career Centers provide one-stop access to services, ALMIS offers one-stop access to job outlook information. American Society for Association Executives: Career resources and job outlooks at this site which is dedicated to advance the value of voluntary associations to society and to support the professionalism of the individuals who lead them. American Staffing Association: The American Staffing Association represents the $66 billion U.S. staffing industry. Members offer a variety of services, including temporary help, permanent placement, temporary-to-permanent placement, long-term and contract help, managed services (often called ”outsourcing"), workforce training, human resources consulting, and PEO arrangements, in which a staffing firm assumes responsibility for payroll, benefits, and other human resource functions. Search for free examples of job descriptions and guidelines for writing job descriptions. American Society for Training and Development: Workforce Development and Workforce Training resource site. ASTD is the world's premier professional association and leading resource on workplace learning and performance issues. ASTD provides information, research, analysis and practical information derived from its own research, the knowledge and experience of its members, its conferences, expositions, seminars, publications and the coalitions and partnerships it has built through research and policy work. ASTD's membership includes more than 70,000 people, working in the field of workplace performance in 100 countries worldwide. Business Coalition for Workforce Development: Workforce Development and Workforce Training information. Community Development Society : Workforce development at the Community Development Society. The Community Development Society represents a variety of fields, including: academic institutions, citizen groups, finance, healthcare, local and regional government, public agencies, and utilities. Council for Urban Development: Resource for help in designing and implementing workforce development programs. Econdata.net: Occupational outlook handbook or looking for the dictionary of occupational titles. EconData.Net, an occupational outlook resource is designed to help practitioners, researchers, students, and other data users quickly gain access to relevant state and sub-state socioeconomic data. The site aims to be a convenient, comprehensive first stop for anyone searching among the vast, disparate array of public and private data sources on the Web. Job Hunt.org: Free sample of job descriptions and job outlooks for job seekers. National Alliance of Business: The National Alliance of Business spearheads the corporate community's efforts to increase achievement at all levels of learning and workforce training. To meet this goal, the Alliance, along with the business community it represents, partners with policymakers and educators to raise public awareness, inform policy and stimulate action. National Association of Workforce Development Professionals: Workforce Development resource site with a mission to be the national voice of the profession. Society for Human Resource Management: The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is the world's largest association devoted to human resource management and workforce development. Representing more than 165,000 individual members, the Society serves the needs of HR professionals by providing the most essential and comprehensive set of resources available i.e., workforce training. As an influential voice, SHRM is committed to advancing the human resource profession to ensure that HR is an essential and effective partner in developing and executing organizational strategy. Workforce
Excellence Network:
The
Workforce
Excellence Network represents the next generation of quality efforts
for the workforce
development system to foster unparalleled levels of quality services
to its customers, workers, and employers. The purpose of the Network is
to engage state and local workforce
development organizations in a voluntary process of pursuing performance
excellence.
Workforce
Information Council:
The
Workforce Investment
Act establishes a unique structure for Federal-State cooperation
in planning and overseeing workforce
training and workforce
development information system. The Secretary of Labor, through
the Bureau of Labor Statistics, acts with other Federal agencies and State
employment statistics agency representatives elected by their peers.
Collectively known as the Workforce
Information Council, this group works together to plan, guide,
and oversee the nationwide workforce information system.
Workforce tools of the trade: Workforce development and workforce training site for the workforce development professional. USWorkforce.org: wia This Web site provides answers to current and emerging questions about the Workforce Investment Act. It represents an unprecedented collaboration between public and private sector groups and individuals to provide access to workforce development information and career resources and to apply that information toward innovative and effective partnerships and programs. Dictionary of Occupational Titles Guidelines for writing job descriptions Occupational
Outlook Handbook eworkforce newsletter: Career Guidance and career development resource. Information Week: Career Development resource with information on career resources and career guidance. Job Seeker News.com: Online newsletter for the job seeker with information on careers, job descriptions and free examples of job descriptions. Chamber of Commerce and Business Associations United States Chamber of Commerce:
Workforce
training and workforce
development resources. What is your community doing to train and
educate workers? The U.S. Chamber's Center for Workforce Preparation can
provide you with promising practices and resourceful tools to help you
build an effective workforce system.
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