Econ

Your boss has asked you to prepare a detailed memo on the job market for economists and expects you to report your findings to stakeholders. You want to provide a presentation that clearly lays out your findings and provide a report for reference so that stakeholders have material to come back to at a later time.

1. Public Sector

· Focus on working for local, state, national governments, as well as non-profits.

· https://www.usajobs.gov /

· https://www.bls.gov/ooh /

Things that should be included

· Types of jobs

· Salaries

· Projected growth

· Skills needed

· Qualifications

· Location

· What’s available in this area

· Certifications?

· Entry level vs. advanced

· Types of tasks

· Prep you could do now?

· Resources available

What do you want to know?

· Market trends—

· Projected growth rates. Probably have to get a bit specific, probably with specific jobs.

· Development-areas for diversification and growth

· Requisite Skills

· Technological resources and trends—what is used in these areas?

· Certifications/qualifications

· Hard Skills

· Soft Skills

· Degree level

· Experience (internships?)

· Hiring process

· Sources of employment

· Companies

· Gov’t entities

· Location

· Salary expectations

· Measure across industry and across jobs.

· (top 10% vs. bottom 10%, etc.)4

· Measure within job.

· Measure across career length.

· Measure across degree level

· Feedback from current industry professionals

· Job Characteristics

· Reach

· Strategic alliances

· Current Job Prep

2. Remember to create a PowerPoint with at least five (5) to Ten (10) slides!

Also, you must add a regression in your PowerPoint presentation.

· Content of slides

. Your slides should be clean, easy to read, and easy to pull up when your time to present comes.

. Your slides should contain more than just words.

. Your slides should contain specific, sourced information.

. You should avoid generalities at all costs.

. Your slides should be professional, free of typos and formatting errors, and be complements to your presentation.

· Job market report

. Along with the presentation, you should produce a report on your findings.

. This report should be 1-2 pages, single spaced, Times New Roman font, 1-inch margins.

. You should break your report into logical sections.

. You should source all relevant information with a clean works cited page.

. This information should be complementary to what is contained in your presentation. Meaning there may be a large bit of overlap, but they should not be identical.

. You should seek to add value to your report.