3. Let’s look at four labor market trends that suggest
some key strategies you might consider
1. Large numbers of long-term unemployed and parttime workers
2. Seasonal layoff patterns
3. Increasing population diversity
4. Changing employment patterns in occupations and
industries
5. • From July 2012 thru June 2013
RochesterWorks! served 30,418 job
seeker customers.
• 59% of them were Dislocated
Workers.
6. Why hire them?
• Number of Discouraged Workers is
declining
• Part-time workers want to work.
• Both groups likely have the “soft
skills” you need
• There are $$ available to help cover
on-the-job training costs
7.
8. Strategies
• Hire new employees from December
thru February
• If you typically lay off during this
timeframe, could you use the time to
strategically retain and train your most
valuable employees?
11. Groups to strategically recruit
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•
•
•
•
Younger workers
Older workers
Women
Racial and ethnic minorities
Individuals with disabilities and
veterans
12. Occupations With Greatest Decline in
Finger Lakes Region
Job Title
SOC Code
Decline, 2010–
2020
Replacement Needs,
2010–2020
Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing
machine operators
43-5053
-330
0
Sewing Machine Operators
51-6031
-290
0
Word processors and typists
43-9022
-220
100
Switchboard operators, including answering service
43-2011
-170
100
Postal service clerks
43-5051
-120
100
Pressers, textile, garment, and related materials
51-6021
-80
0
Computer operators
43-9011
-70
0
13. NYS Job Bank, November 2013, Finger Lakes Region
SOC
CODE
OCCUPATIONAL CATEGORY
APPLICANTS
OPENINGS
RATIO OF
APPLICANTS TO
OPENINGS
47206100
Construction Laborers
351
2
176:1
41909900
Sales and Related Workers, All Other
143
1
143:1
37201900
Building Cleaning Workers, All Other
111
1
111:1
43919900
Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other
408
5
82:1
25203100
Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Vocational Education
78
1
78:1
51403400
Lathe and Turning Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
66
1
66:1
35304100
Food Servers, Nonrestaurant
64
1
64:1
17302900
Engineering Technicians, Except Drafters, All Other
117
2
59:1
35101100
Chefs and Head Cooks
59
1
59:1
37301100
Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers
233
5
47:1
35909900
Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other
133
0
No Openings
51209200
Team Assemblers
110
0
No Openings
43407100
File Clerks
96
0
No Openings
39501200
Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists
68
0
No Openings
25202100
Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education
66
0
No Openings
13208200
Tax Preparers
61
0
No Openings
21101900
Counselors, All Other
59
0
No Openings
39909900
Personal Care and Service Workers, All Other
51
0
No Openings
13209900
Financial Specialists, All Other
48
0
No Openings
35201100
Cooks, Fast Food
48
0
No Openings
35302200
Counter Attendants, Cafeteria, Food Concession, and Coffee Shop
46
0
No Openings
43503200
Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance
43
0
No Openings
51301100
Bakers
40
0
No Openings
14. Separations for any reason in the
Rochester Metro, 4th Quarter of 2012
Rochester
MSA, Quar
ter
Construction
Separations
Manufacturing
separations
Q4 2012
5,478
7,433
Trade,
Transp, and
Utilities
12,509
Information
separations
1,799
Financial
separations
1,647
Prof and Bus
Svcs
separations
16,833
Education and
Health
Services
14,818
15. 1. Large numbers of long-term unemployed
and part-time workers
2. Seasonal layoff patterns
3. Increasing population diversity
4. Changing employment patterns in
occupations and industries
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Editor's Notes
Ruby developers ASAP—six months experience—looking for well over a year
Layoffs follow predictable, seasonal cycles. Involuntary separations tend to peak in December and January each year. In contrast, hiring tends to drop to its lowest level in the November–February period.
You will have the largest pool of available, experience workers and the least competition for them.
About 1/5 of MC workforce. The Labor Force Participation Rate experienced a sharp drop from 66% before the Great Recession to 63.7% in 2012 and is not projected to rebound any time soon. That means fewer working-age candidates for businesses to hire.
109,000 young men and women, 20-29, in MC. 42,000 in Rochester, 67,000 outside. According to a recent report from the OECD, 1/3 of low-skilled individuals in the US are aged less than 35. Born early 1980s (1982)-Early 2000s (2004)
Younger—you’ll need them to replace the Baby Boomers. Older—only age demographic whose LFP rate has increased in the last decade. Part time or consulting? Young women are more likely to have higher basic skills levels then their male counterparts (at a rate of about 2 to 1). Also non-traditional push. Racial/ethnic minorities—particularly black/African-American women (59.9%) and Hispanic or Latino men (77.8%).
So you cannot find qualified candidates who have experience in both the occupation and industry for which you are hiring. Could you find someone with experience in one or the other? Or perhaps a qualified candidate has experience in a related occupation or industry with the right set of transferable skills. Could fill recruiting needs in accounting and secretarial.
These industries are not necessarily in decline, but the workers may be available.