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How To Video: Finding the Value of an Industry

How many jobs and what amount of earnings does any industry in your region support? Watch a video about finding this information in the Input/Output tool in Analyst 3.

Dec. 15, 2011 | Posted by Josh Stevenson

How To Video: Creating Occupation or Industry Groups

Watch a video on creating and using occupation and industry groups in Analyst 3.

Dec. 14, 2011 | Posted by Josh Stevenson

How To Video: Deleting Jobs in Input/Output

How do you make a case for keeping an employer in your region? Use Input/Output to show the full range of effects on the regional economy. Watch a video demonstrating how to do this in Analyst 3.

Dec. 14, 2011 | Posted by Josh Stevenson

How To Video: Adding Jobs to an Industry in the I/O

What can you do with an Input/Output report? This video shows you the most basic application for I/O.

Dec. 8, 2011 | Posted by Josh Stevenson

How To Video: Use Filters to Find Focus Industries

Having trouble finding the distinctive industries that drive your economy? Watch a video to see how using filters in Analyst 3 can help you refine your list of industries so you can concentrate on what makes your region move.

Dec. 2, 2011 | Posted by Josh Stevenson

How To Video: Find High-Growth Industries and Occupations

A video demonstrating how to find high-growth occupations and industries.

Dec. 2, 2011 | Posted by Josh Stevenson

How To Video: Use Regional Requirements

Watch a video about how to run a regional requirements report for your region, and find where your economy lets money leak out.

Dec. 2, 2011 | Posted by Josh Stevenson

Analyst 3 Webinar Video

On November 17th, last week, EMSI hosted a webinar presentation of Analyst 3. The webinar covered many of the major changes to the tool, including new features, improved navigation, and data. We recorded the webinar, and you can view it below. The entire video lasts 51 minutes, and goes in-depth on Analyst 3. Watch to [...]

Nov. 21, 2011 | Posted by Josh Stevenson

Career Coach Tutorial Video

How to set up “Top Jobs” on the home page: Click here for more information on Career Coach. If your college currently subscribes to Career Coach, please join the Career Coach group for updates and announcements.

Oct. 27, 2011 | Posted by jon

Analyst 3 Feature Tutorial: Sliders

Our most recent A3 beta update included “sliders.” This is a new “slide-to-detail” feature that we’re pretty excited about. This functionality allows a user to “slide” the screen from an overview report to a full table view, work with the data, and then slide right back. This means you can dig into data, get what [...]

Oct. 14, 2011 | Posted by Josh Stevenson

Analyst 3 Feature Tutorial: Using STEM Groups

Watch a video on accessing the STEM occupation groups we’ve built into the tool, and get a few tips on basic analysis.

Oct. 14, 2011 | Posted by Josh Stevenson

Analyst 3 Feature Tutorial: My Programs

Watch a video on managing the program data that comes up in the “My Programs” tab in “Education.”

Oct. 14, 2011 | Posted by Josh Stevenson

Product Update: Analyst 3 Beta

Our next A3 beta update will include a new “slide to detail” feature that we are pretty excited about. This functionality allows a user to “slide” the screen from an overview report to a detail view (and back) without leaving the original report. Here’s a quick video on how it works.

Oct. 7, 2011 | Posted by Rob Sentz

How To: Economic Impact Videos

The following three videos cover significant territory in Analyst’s Economic Impact (EI) module. Input/Output modeling is inherently complicated, but these videos should break down the essentials. Harnessing EI is key for getting a handle on complex industry relationships. It aids site selectors and economic developers, as well as grant writers.

Mar. 23, 2011 | Posted by Josh Stevenson

4 Things You Should Know About EMSI Data

Here is a brief video we just produced that provides a simple explanation to the question, “So, what is EMSI Data?”

Dec. 6, 2010 | Posted by Rob Sentz

Video Previews of Analyst 2.5

EMSI is getting ready to launch a major update to Analyst, our web-based labor market analysis suite. The following videos give an overview of what’s new in Analyst 2.5 and detail the new dashboard, workflows, and under-the-hood functionality — all of which will help users more quickly and easily access the data and reports they need.

Nov. 12, 2010 | Posted by Joshua Wright

How To: Use the Jobs By Industry Report (Part II)

This second video on the Jobs by Industry Report will familiarize users with more functionality, covering things like sorting, filtering, and trimming the report into manageable, useful data. See part 1 here.

Oct. 4, 2010 | Posted by Josh Stevenson

How To: Use the Jobs by Industry Report (Part I)

This first video will help you explore your region using the Jobs by Industry Report. It demonstrates how to navigate to the report, set options, drill down in the industries, and a few other details.

Sep. 29, 2010 | Posted by Josh Stevenson

How To: Run a Basic Industry Report

This video shows users how to run an Industry Report, including how to get to the report, how to set the report options, and then an explanation of each section of the report and how to export it.

Sep. 27, 2010 | Posted by Josh Stevenson

How To: Run a Basic Occupation Report

The “Occupation Report” is one of the most used reports in Analyst. Here’s a brief video on how to run the report, covering the report output and some of the various options.

Sep. 22, 2010 | Posted by Josh Stevenson

How To: Compare New Career Options

Our latest how-to video goes through the “Occupation Candidates” report, which allows Analyst users to explore and compare a set occupations to transition a worker into based on compatibility, openings, wages, current job listings, and available training.

Sep. 13, 2010 | Posted by Joshua Wright

How To: Use Analyst for Grants

As part of a recent series of posts on grant writing, here’s a how-to video that shows how Analyst can be used to save time and easily get local labor market information for grant applications. The video runs through finding occupation data and moving between industry numbers to the specific occupations those industries serve.

Sep. 8, 2010 | Posted by Joshua Wright

How To: Program Review

Here are a set of videos that demonstrate how Analyst users can review specific programs at their colleges or in their regions and ensure local training is matching up with regional labor market demand.

Aug. 25, 2010 | Posted by Joshua Wright

How To: Manage Regions

Here’s a new How-To video dealing with region management inside Analyst. It’s an exhaustive look at the functionality of creating regions before diving into the data. Check it out. We’ve also worked up a one-page PDF that walks you through this process. You can download the PDF and keep it handy for reference.

Aug. 19, 2010 | Posted by Josh Stevenson

How To: Find Target Occupations Video

This video demonstrates the most straightforward path you can take to find high-growth occupations in EMSI’s Analyst tool. Keep this report in mind whenever we hit a new data run on our quarterly schedule. You can use it to make sure your top performers are still performing, and to try to catch any up-and-comers.

Aug. 10, 2010 | Posted by Josh Stevenson

How To: Find College Programs From Target Occupations

This three-part tutorial gives Analyst users a step-by-step guide to find college programs in their regions, starting at the industry level and moving to occupations and then programs.

Jun. 29, 2010 | Posted by Joshua Wright

How To: Find Target Occupations

This quick tutorial gives Analyst users a step-by-step guide to find target occupations in their regions. In this case, we define a target occupation as one that is potentially worth more development attention either because of decent growth, promising earning potential, or a sizable employment presence in the region.

Jun. 29, 2010 | Posted by Joshua Wright

Regional Comparison Functionality Added to Analyst

We’ve added new functionality to Analyst that allows users to compare data for up to 10 regions side by side. Check out this video to learn more.

Apr. 7, 2010 | Posted by Joshua Wright

Video: Updates to Career Pathways, Educational Analyst

In this EMSI video, Josh Wright and Josh Stevenson walk through the new updates to two of our web-based tools — Career Pathways, which is dedicated to skills and career exploration, and Educational Analyst, which helps planners assess training programs. These changes include a smoother, more user-friendly interface for analyzing re-employment scenarios, looking at occupation [...]

Dec. 8, 2009 | Posted by Joshua Wright