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What the Tool Provides The Graduate Employment Outcomes tool helps Minnesota's students, job seekers, career counselors, educators, and policy makers better understand the connections between postsecondary education choices and job outcomes. The tool displays key aspects of employment, including: Wages : What hourly pay can a graduate expect 12 and 24 months after graduation?

Minnesota High Tech Association (MHTA) is leading a coalition of technology-based employers to find solutions aimed at closing Minnesota's IT skills gap. There are an estimated 2,700 IT jobs in the Twin Cities alone, that remain unfilled - the IT Action Alliance is working to address this gap. The alliance is divided into workgroups to address 4 key objectives: ■ Launch a ten-year marketing campaign to deliver high-quality candidates for every open IT position ■ Increase re-employment of displaced IT workers through training opportunities ■ Utilize internships as a tool to place two and four-year college graduates ■ Promote IT careers in grades 6-12 to increase the number of high school students entering post-secondary programs.

Occupation Employment Statistics homepage. The OES Data Tool allows you to select, view and download data for multiple occupations and/or regions.

The Transformative Change Initiative (TCI) and Skills for America's Future at the Aspen Institute hosted an event focused on the evaluation of employer engagement under TAACCCT.

The Minnesota IT Workforce Commons (MNITWC) is a repository for information and articles on all things IT and a place to enter the discussion on current topics. The MITWC monitors and reports local changes in IT employment from both an employee and employer perspective.

Positively Minnesota, Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED)

Annual Veterans Employment event by DEED

Obama on Tuesday will also sign bipartisan legislation aimed at improving business engagement and accountability in federally-funded programs.

"If any college student asked me what career would most assure thirty years of steady, well-paying employment," said Ross, "I would respond, 'cybersecurity.'"

United States Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration

Search 80,000+ tech jobs. Dice.com has business analyst, software engineer, QA jobs and many more. Manage your tech job search and IT career on Dice.

An interactive tool that compares industries with certain topical areas in education.

In conjunction with the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development's (DEED) Labor Market Information staff, workforce analysis reports have been compiled and analyzed based on the state's six regional planning areas. These reports will provide an introductory framework and context for discussion during the regional meetings.

Minnesota's FastTRAC Adult Career Pathways Program, a collaborate effort under the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), was included in Vice President Joe Biden's report today to President Barack Obama as an innovative model for meeting the needs of businesses in the state and serving individuals who are educationally underprepared for lifelong careers.

This year's college graduates are earning more than they expected to in their first jobs out of school. But they weren't expecting very much. Members of the class of 2014 who accepted job offers took positions with median earnings of $50,050, above their median expectations of $48,890, according to new data from the National Association of Colleges and Employers, a career-services and recruiting industry group.