Emsi Economic Development Certification goes deep on labor market data sources, Emsi's methodology, and how to apply data in everyday economic development workflows. Our goal is for you to walk away from this training feeling confident in using labor market data to impact the economic environment in your community.

• Emsi data overview
• Job postings and profile data
• Workflows and use cases
• Time-saving tips

Emsi Higher Education Certification is designed to train Emsi users in labor market information and instruct them on how to get the most out of Emsi data in their work. The goal of Certification is for you to become an authority on Emsi data and methodology so that you can create even better results in your community. Don’t be content with merely scratching the surface!

• Emsi data overview
• Strengths and weaknesses of the data sources
• Industry and occupation data insights
• Connections between workforce, education, and economic development
• Best practices

Career Coach Advanced Training is a course designed to train career advisors and recruiters in labor market information and instruct them on how to get the most out of Career Coach in their work.

• Intro to labor market information
• How Emsi creates its data
• Workflows in Career Coach
• How others are using Career Coach

Workforce professionals can benefit from Emsi’s specialized certification specifically tailored to meet the needs of your business and jobseeker clients. This training will emphasize the use and understanding of labor market information—where it comes from, why you can trust using Emsi data, and how to maximize usage to do your job more efficiently. Training will be led by two Emsi workforce specialists who have spent 25 combined years in workforce and are CWDP certified.

• Emsi data overview
• Skills transferability
• The relationship between occupation and industry data
• Workflows and use cases

Kevin Long, director of policy and planning at Montgomery College, will walk through best practices for using Analyst to identify new program opportunities and research marketable skills.

with Kevin Long, Montgomery College

Explore how a leading workforce board uses data and research to understand its region's labor market needs and the performance of key industries to better serve employers and jobseekers.

with Milena Kornyl, Anne Arundel Workforce Development Corporation

TIP Strategies' Caroline Alexander will detail how she and her colleagues display labor market and economic trends with Tableau. This will be a hands-on tutorial for novice and intermediate Tableau users.

with Caroline Alexander, TIP Strategies

Come learn how Broward College uses labor market data to educate its internal staff and students on the vast number of career opportunities in the workforce. You’ll receive in-depth Analyst training on how the college has worked towards faculty-wide buy-in.

with Fortin Jean-Pierre, Broward College

2017 has been an exciting year for Emsi with new innovation driven by our same core mission and values. Emsi's CEO, Andrew Crapuchettes, will open up the conference by discussing how that vision has shaped our products and services to bring people, education, and employers to the intersection of prosperity.

with Andrew Crapuchettes, CEO

UnitedHealth Group is at the leading edge of trends in talent wars. With over 250,000 employees and 200 individual companies worldwide, UHG has unique talent needs that require unique approaches. When you’re hiring 1,000 software engineers a year, you run into issues, such as tapping out entire skilled labor pools, and move toward creative solutions—such as telecommuting, collaboration with higher education, and even developing your own in-house tech skills training. In this keynote presentation, Mark Hanson will discuss how UHG (one of the largest companies in the industry and driving a sixth of the US economy) addresses some of the biggest talent questions on the horizon.

with Mark Hanson, UnitedHealth Group

The keynote presentation will be the springboard to the following panel discussion, which will include expertise from higher education, workforce development, and economic development, to lay out the biggest issues—and potential solutions—in building the workforce of the future.

with Mark Hanson, UnitedHealth Group, Bob Potts, Nevada Governor's Office of Economic Development,Tina Ngo Bartel, MiraCosta College, and David Andrews, National University

University of Hawaii Community College System's new web-based sector-mapping tool provides an organized real-time look into the relationship between academic and economic alignment. Drawn from Emsi’s database but filtered through UHCC’s custom portal, this site looks at the major sectors of the economy and the details of every job inside those sectors. It provides crucial data on current and projected demand data, as well as on whether the academic units are over or under producing, plus more. With one click, you can see our heat-mapped economy with an overlay of where the system has programs and where opportunities exist that are as yet unaddressed.

with Peter Quigley and Paul Sakomoto, University of Hawaii Community Colleges

Learn how the San Diego Workforce Partnership (San Diego County’s Workforce Development Board) uses labor market research to develop programs with employers. By combining both research and business programs into one department, SDWP capitalizes on warm employer leads from their labor market research to develop sector-specific strategies with and for employers. SDWP conducts research with employers and develops business-led customized training programs, Hiring at Happy Hour events, and social enterprises. All SDWP business services are driven by labor market R&D.

with Sarah Burns, San Diego Workforce Partnership, and Tina Ngo Bartel, MiraCosta College

Big plans require big data. The strategic services research team from Allstate’s talent acquisition department will discuss how the team provides labor market analysis through storytelling to support Allstate’s vision for a diverse, agile, and talented workforce. Our goal is to support data-driven talent decisions for Allstate to be an innovative 22nd-century corporation. The research team leverages Emsi data to test assumptions and bridge the gap between knowledge and action. We set expectations and provide analysis on diverse pools of talent, current and future skills gaps, location comparison, and competitor insight. Join us as we tell the Emsi and Allstate story: past, present, and future!

with Bruce Evans, Emsi, Lee Semmes, Emsi, Lesley Rood, Allstate, Megan Buttita, Allstate, and Meta McKinney, Allstate

Participants from the Course Data Project will describe the processes they are exploring to make workforce and training courses data-wise so that course data can be machine-matched to résumé, jobs, and labor market data. The Course Data Project is a collaboration of NLET.org, the University of Chicago, and Emsi with research funding from a DOL sub-award through SkillsCommons.org, the DOL funded repository of all TAACCT courses.

with Gordon Freedman, National Laboratory for Education Transformation, Matt Gee, University of Chicago, and Nic Richmond Pima Community College

Hector Acosta will discuss the unicorn IT candidates that employers are hunting for, and how he and his colleagues at Worksystems, Inc. use Emsi and other data sources to prove that those candidates don't exist. Take away recommendations on what you can do to help local employers alleviate their IT needs.

with Hector Acosta, Worksystems

It's a given that in any market, firms looking to expand, consolidate or open a new operation want to find the most favorable location for fiscal and financial success. Site selection used to be built on old relationships and handshakes but has rapidly been transformed by the use of data analytics to understand viability. However, in order to be successful in the emerging market, firms must now consider Location Economics. Location Economics is about ordering spatial econometric facts concerning the potential for a business to operate within a market. The process is called location Intelligence and it measures the division of labor within a market that supports a geography of opportunity. Led by Dr. Wayne Gearey, Emsi's senior vice president of data science, this session will highlight how just having the right data is only part of the battle.​​

with Dr. Wayne Gearey, Emsi

Colleges are a big part of the economic development of the region. In this talk, Dr. Kevin Long of Montgomery College and Rob Sentz of Emsi will show how data collected from a variety of sources (traditional, job postings, résumés) can help colleges make strategic moves to improve student engagement, program development, and employer relationships.

with Kevin Long, Montgomery College, and Rob Sentz, Emsi

The first step in creating a business attraction strategy is to understand your market’s strengths. One of the top factors influencing the site-selection decision is the presence of a qualified and abundant workforce. Emsi Developer can help your community clearly identify its specific workforce strengths to tell your story. In this presentation, Vince Giovannini will discuss how Gilbert, Arizona, leverages Emsi data to identify target industry sectors to support the successful marketing of the community to prospective businesses in those industries. This session will leave you with the knowledge to execute in the following areas: 1) Using Emsi data in strategic planning efforts around business attraction; 2) telling your community story through demographic, workforce, and industry data; 3) leveraging data to set your community apart from competitors.

with Vince Giovannini, Gilbert, Arizona

Learn how companies are leveraging Emsi workforce diversity data to set expectations, find the diverse talent they need, and benchmark performance against the broader market.

with Brendan O'Neill, CareerBuilder

Following up from a full day of discussing key workforce trends and issues, the second day's panel will focus on actionable items you can take home to your business, college, or community to put in place.

with Yustina Saleh, Emsi, Julie Gacnik, Creighton University, Matt Gee, University of Chicago, and Carla Hickman, EAB

David Snipes, manager of the Montgomery County (Ohio) Business Solutions Center, will discuss the creative ways that Dayton-area leaders have come together to engage businesses and address their talent needs as well as help dislocated workers in the process.

with David Snipes, Montgomery County

Data science, business intelligence, and analytics programs are being launched at a fever pitch. What’s the hype about? What is data science? Our research has revealed that data science jobs come in many flavors and that the requirements vary significantly by region and industry. Data science skills infuse a diverse group of jobs in marketing, software development, engineering, and even the legal field. In this workshop, the Emsi team will present a new approach that allows us to move beyond ambiguous titles and trending buzzwords to the actual requirements of data science (and similarly emerging fields). We will show how skills cluster together to reveal defining skills, core skills, domain-specific skills, and more. This approach also lays the groundwork for a unique career pathway method that guides aspiring data scientists and provides a clear map for where to start and how to maximize opportunities in a specific market. As a bonus, our work has applications in almost every job field, including production.

with Luke Jankovic, and Yustina Saleh Emsi

In this presentation, Mark Hanson will demonstrate how to utilize dashboards to drive strategic market insight by combining disparate data sources, standard scoring, and decision tree logic.

with Mark Hanson, UHG

We will end the conference with a panel of Emsi's executives highlighting how you can apply the data and conference discussions to the various areas of employers, education, and economic and workforce development. Hear how each team at Emsi is addressing the core issue to provide a more wholistic approach to planning, training and hiring the future workforce.

with Andrew Crapuchettes CEO, John Pernsteiner VP of Economic and Workforce Development, and Bruce Evans VP of Talent Strategy