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The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) has been working with our academic partners to create a webinar series that features our role with The Foundation High School Program legislation (HB 5) in an effort to help all academic audiences learn about and understand how to use all of the TWC resources available to the public. In addition, these webinars highlight what we do, as a state agency, for students, parents, teachers, counselors, and all academics in regard to career and college exploration. Please take a look at any of the webinars you think may be useful to you, and don't forget to browse the corresponding Q&A documents that accompany each webinar. Also feel free to share the webinar content, this website, and/or our contact information with anyone you think the TWC can help in regard to all things relating to the new Foundation High School Program and the endorsement options Texas students have.
For comments, questions, or webinar content requests, please email careerinformation@twc.state.tx.us

Archived Webinars:

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Please note that the webinars are Power Point presentations, and will open in your browser. The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) has been working with our academic partners to create a webinar series that features our role with The Foundation High School Program legislation (HB 5) in an effort to help all academic audiences learn about and understand how to use all of the TWC resources available to the public.

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Exploration, Readiness & Planning

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LMCI specializes in creating quality products and providing high caliber staff support to a wide range of customers. The LMCI product mix ranges from our flagship online career information delivery system, Texas Career Check, to a variety of specialized economic development and regional planning tools. We offer services to students through a Toll-free Career Information Hotline and provide career-oriented tabloids and monographs to assist students and job seekers in making informed education and career choices. Each of these end user products is buttressed by applied academic research on Texas labor market dynamics. LMCI offers a collection of hardcopy and online labor market, career and follow-up information products and customer support services that are second to none! If you would like to purchase any of these items, please print our Product Order Form , complete it, and mail or fax it to us.

Magazines:

Foundation High School Endorsement Bulletins

This series of bulletins takes a closer look at each endorsement area and connects those endorsement pathways to career opportunities. Each comprehensive issue contains vital information about the guidelines of the Foundation High School program and endorsement selection requirements. In addition, they feature careers that are specific to each endorsement area and the accompanying labor market information for each job title. $.50
Check out the five Foundation High School Endorsement Bulletins

Starting the Conversation: Talking to Your Children about Career Exploration

This magazine provides hints for helping your children make good decisions that will ease the transition from high school to college or a career, and will also highlight some tools and sources of information that the Texas Workforce Commission and other state and federal agencies we work with offer. $2.50

Check out Starting the Conversation (accessible PDF)

Careers Are Everywhere! Activity Book for Elementary School Students

This activity book helps elementary students grades 3 through 5 to begin exploring career possibilities. By introducing students to the 16 career clusters they will learn more about in high school, this activity book aims to help students develop self-knowledge, explore education and occupations, and learn to plan for careers. $2.00

Check out Careers Are Everywhere (accessible PDF)

Books:

Brochures:

Top 10 Career Tips Poster Sets

Each panel of the Top 10 Career Tips Brochure has been made into a poster, each with a wide red border. Get the whole set of 5 posters. $12.00

Bookmarks:

Bookmarks are perfect for career fairs! $.10

Reality Check Bookmark

Labor Market & Career Information Bookmark

LMCI Career Information Hotline Bookmark

Online Publications:

The Workplace Essentials Soft Skills white paper

We've heard often over the years that employers hire because of a person's hard skills, but promote, or fire, because of their soft skills. Yet, "soft skills" are loosely defined and hard to quantify. We don't even know what to call them: soft skills, workplace basics, job essentials, professional job skills. The task of including them in employment decision making, no matter which side of the table we are on, is made all the more difficult by this lack of a common language. To bring some order to the chaos, in 2014-15, the Texas Workforce Commission funded research by the Texas State Technical College system to define and validate a common language to describe what we will call Workplace Essential Skills. The result was this Workplace Essentials Skills analysis that for the first time gives company hiring managers, job seekers, employment counselors and students a common language and standardized definitions for the "soft skills" necessary better match individuals to specific job requirements.
Download a one page overview of the Workplace Essentials white paper

Download the four-page report

Download the eight-page bulletin Workplace Basic Skills: Employer Demands and Worker Preparation

Texas Workforce Report 2021-2022

The 2021 Texas Annual Economic Report provides a detailed analysis of the state's demographics, labor market, job market, and occupational employment trends. The Labor Market and Career Information Department of the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) has produced this report to fulfill its commitment to providing the past year's statistical information to the Employment and Training Administration (ETA).
Download Texas Workforce Report 2021-2022

Report on Texas Growth Occupations 2022

Texas Labor Code Section 302.019 requires the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) to gather and study information relating to existing and projected shortages in high-wage, high-demand occupations in Texas annually, including for selected industries. This report summarizes those findings by industry in Texas. The additional data used in this report is current as of the end of federal fiscal year 2022. Thus, the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) data covers the period through first quarter 2022 while Current Employment Statistics (CES) data covers the period through the September 2022 estimates.
Download Full Report

Download Summary Report

Many of these end-user products rely on data generated through a variety of programs operated in cooperation with the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The department provides monthly, survey-based estimates of payroll employment, and estimates of unemployed persons and state and local unemployment rates. LMCI conducts extensive employer surveys to generate occupational wage estimates and generate detailed industry employment and payroll wage data. These data form the backbone of an extraordinarily rich data environment from which to understand the Texas labor market.

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Texas Career Check lets you explore higher education options by looking at detailed information by school and progam of study, AND you can explore occupations of your interest by education level, region, trends and more.

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It’s difficult to predict the future, but it’s never too early to start planning for it. Our tool will show you how much your living expenses will cost, and the amount of money you will need to earn to pay for them.

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The Texas Internship Challenge is a partnership among the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC), Texas Education Agency (TEA) and The Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB), who challenge employers to offer paid internships and make it easy for students to search and apply for them.

Labor Market Information

Occupational Wage Rates: Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) Program
The mean wage is also known as the average wage. The mean wage is calculated by dividing the estimated total wages for an occupation by the number of workers in that occupation. Entry Level and Experienced wage rates represent the means of the lower 1/3 and upper 2/3 of the wage distribution, respectively. Data is from a semiannual survey. Top Occupations Advertised Online: Online advertised jobs data

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Anything is possible - that's what Jobs Y'all is all about. Jobs Y'all is where you can explore good-paying and meaningful careers in growing industries. Here, you'll discover rewarding and satisfying jobs right in your hometown or elsewhere in Texas. Find the career that matches your interests and goals. Your career starts here.

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Anything is possible - that's what Jobs Y'all is all about. Jobs Y'all is where you can explore good-paying and meaningful careers in growing industries. Here, you'll discover rewarding and satisfying jobs right in your hometown or elsewhere in Texas. Find the career that matches your interests and goals.