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.

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.