This webinar focused on New Jersey and Nevada, which shared their success in connecting their unemployment insurance claimants to critical Wagner-Peyser and WIA services.

Yustina Saley, Director, Labor Market & Demographic Research, New Jersey Department of Labor presented information on the RealTime Jobs in Demand Tool--a tool that has a variety of uses including linking dislocated workers with current jobs and potential training programs. The tool is based on data collected through Spider Technology, which is software that queries thousands of private and government job boards and websites, newspaper and other meda outlets' classified media postings as well as corporate and community job boards and website for employment opportunities. The New Jersey Real Time Jobs in Demand Tool analyzes this data to identify trends and the job openings by industry and occupation. The report is sent out biweekly and an email is generated to job applicants with links to matching jobs. The new tool allows New Jersey to cross-reference the number of job openings to the number of people looking for work in a certain occupation/industry thereby identifying the labor shortage in the region/state.

Kim Morigeau and Theresa Nicks from the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation presented information about the strong collaboration, commitment and communication between employment service and unemployment insurance staff as well as the strong connection with the IT department that has developed tools to integrate the UI computer systems with Nevada's Job Connect operating system, allowing a completed Job Connect registration at the time they file their initiatl UI claim. Nevada also developed an automated call-in system that selects UI claimants to receive reemployment services, hired additional JobConnect (RES) staff, cross trained RES/UI staff as well as implemented new group orientations for the worker profiling and reemployment services system. Nevada became involved in two initiatives, REA and RES--that have the objective of assisting UI claimants to find jobs through the One Stop centers by providing one-on-one assessment interviews and follow-up assistance. Overall, the REA and RES initiatives were successful and below are sheets describing the initiatives as well as showing outcome statistics.

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