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.

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These courses are offered at no cost and students earn a TEEX certification of completion and Continuing Education Units (CEU) for the completion of each course. These courses are certified by the American Council on Education (ACE) for recommended college credit at the completion of each track. Follow ACE instructions on how to request college credit.

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iSEEK career profiles & occupational emploment statistics (OES).

iSEEK career profiles & occupational emploment statistics (OES).

iSEEK career profiles & occupational emploment statistics (OES).

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

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.

The Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce is an independent, nonprofit research and policy institute affiliated with the Georgetown McCourt School of Public Policy that studies the link between education, career qualifications, and workforce demands. Core Research: The Center conducts research in three core areas with the goal of better aligning education and training with workforce and labor market demand: jobs, skills, and people. ■ JOBS: Our first research focus is on the historic and future labor market supply and labor market demand for education, with secondary interest in occupation and industrial clusters at the national and sub-national levels. ■ SKILLS: Our second research focus is on connecting 21st Century competencies with education, training, and applied learning pathways. ■ PEOPLE: Our third research focus is on identifying the effect of changing job requirements and skill demand on students and the current workforce, with a focus on varying degrees of access and success by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Public Policy The Center seeks to inform and educate federal, state, and local policymakers and stakeholders on ways to better align education and training with labor market demand and qualifications. It also seeks to create tools that enable decision makers to access and customize the data to allow for national, state, and sub-state analysis.

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