Career Coach « EMSI | Economic Modeling Specialists Inc.

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Overview

Career Coach is a public-facing web tool designed to help colleges and workforce agencies connect students and jobseekers to local careers. The intuitive, easy-to-use tool does this by providing valuable and current information on the regional labor market and linking job searches to relevant education and training. Career Coach is a service that colleges and workforce agencies use to communicate with the local community, market programs, and connect people to good local jobs.

Career Coach is available in two versions:

   1. Career Coach for Workforce Boards

This version is designed primarily around re-employment and helping dislocated workers find compatible jobs. The tool can be customized to show a list of a workforce board's approved training programs mapped to the occupations those programs train for.

   2. Career Coach for Colleges

This version is designed to connect students to careers via the college’s programs. We link directly to the specific college’s training programs. We've also updated to the tool to help colleges meet new gainful employment regulations from the US Education Department (see our gainful employment page).

In either case, the goal of Career Coach is the same — to provide up-to-date, local career information that people in your community can use to find a job.

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Four simple steps

Career Coach generates four pieces of data to help jobseekers find good careers: earnings, the local employment outlook, job postings, and local education and training programs for that occupation.

  • 1. Earnings:

    Is the job worth the effort?

    Career Coach shows the regional wage for each occupation, which provides a general sense of the earning potential of different careers.

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  • 2. Employment Trends:

    What's available locally?

    Career Coach displays the total number of jobs and recent trends for the selected occupation. This helps jobseekers understand how many people actually do “X” in the area and if the job is growing, declining, or holding steady.

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  • 3. Education and Training:

    What's the next step?

    With Career Coach we can either link our employment data to regional training providers or directly to a college’s program data so that anyone can see available programs connected to the occupations that interest them. This is a very valuable component because it helps establish the need for training once people have found the right career and leads jobseekers straight to your door.

  • 4. Job Postings:

    Who’s hiring?

    Career Coach does this by using Indeed data, a comprehensive database of jobs for your area. This data links to our occupation data, which connects to your programs. That’s what makes this tool so powerful — Career Coach gives jobseekers a new perspective on employment and leads them straight to you.

Resume Builder

Career Coach also comes with our one-of-a-kind resume builder. This easy tool uses our vast database of career information to automatically fill out portions of the resume, getting your users on the right track quickly.

Point jobseekers in the right direction

Once a jobseeker finds a job, we make it easy for them to contact you about the appropriate training. In addition, if a jobseeker finds disappointing data for their occupation of choice, Career Coach can use the skill profile of the chosen occupation to generate a list of similar occupations to look for more job openings or stronger regional growth.

Career Coach’s simple interface and quick workflow will help you connect jobseekers to employment and training and gather essential data on the people you serve, so you can serve them better.

To learn more, watch the video tour or schedule a one-on-one demonstration with our friendly staff.

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