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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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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.

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TWC Middle School Explore Careers Workbook

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TWC High School Explore Careers Workbook

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WFS Capital Area - created by outreach specialists for Student/Entry-Level Workers. Topics include how to build professional relationships and how to own up to making mistakes at work and learning from them.

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Identify the lifestyle you want to discover which jobs can support it.

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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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Everything you ever wanted to know about occuaptions and options beyond high school

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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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Compare collges, univeristies, and career schools.

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Texas CREWS interactive dashboards help you compare Texas public universities, public colleges, majors and career schools based on graduate wages, student loan levels, graduation rates and more.

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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.

Your career starts right here in Texas.

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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.

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workforce solutions: job readiness curriculum

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The job readiness curriculum developed by Workforce Solutions is comprised of 13 modules focusing on improving soft skills to help prepare individuals for success in the workplace.

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Welcome to our search page for the Directory of Literacy Providers in Texas. There are many providers across Texas that can help you reach your goals. Please fill in any one or more fields below to search for a literacy provider in your city or county. Go to search tips.

We also have two searchable maps by county or Workforce Board Area that you may use to search. Please scroll down the page or go to our instructions on how to use the maps.

Are you a Center in Texas, for Texans, offer FREE services, and would like to be included in our Provider Directory? Go to our Directory submission page and fill out the questionaire to be considered for inclusion in the TCALL Provider Directory. We will get in touch with you once we receive it.

Advanced search

We also provide an information and referral hotline from which you may obtain information regarding adult and family literacy providers in your area. If you would like to tutor, need help with literacy issues, would like to be added to the Directory of Adult & Family Literacy Providers, or would like to find out what services are available in your area, please contact TCALL.

Call our toll-free hotline: 800-441- READ (7323) or contact us via e-mail: tcall@tamu.edu for more information. Click on the links below for additional resources available to assist you.
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Searching is not case sensitive

If all fields are left blank, all entries will be returned.

For the names of those cities and counties which contain two words, please put a space between them. Example: Big Bend, instead of BigBend.

If you need a center with someone who speaks Spanish, please check the "Yes" box after the question: "Need a Spanish Speaker?".

Si Usted necesita un centro con alguien que hable español, por favor de un clic en "Si" a un lado de la frase "¿Necesita alguien que hable español?"

Mapping Texas Literacy and Workforce Service Providers
Providers of Adult Education and Literacy by county (If you prefer to use the map and would like to locate a literacy provider in a specific county, click on the map link above. Place the cursor over any county in Texas, click, and the list of literacy providers that serve the county will display.)

Providers of Adult Education and Literacy by Workforce Board Area

Through 28 Local Workforce Development Boards and their service contractors, the Texas Workforce Commission provides workforce solutions for Texans.

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TCALL is the statewide Adult Education and Literacy professional development and resource center for Texas, housed at Texas A&M University.

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The JET program provides grants to eligible entities to purchase and install equipment necessary for the development of career and technical education (CTE) courses or programs that lead to a license, certificate or post-secondary degree in a high-demand occupation. The JET Advisory Board will meet at least once each quarter, or as needed, to review received applications and recommend grant awards.

Eligible grantees include:

Public junior, state or technical colleges

Texas Independent School Districts (ISDs) and open-enrollment charter schools in partnership with a public junior, state, or technical college

Windham School District

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Jobs and Education for Texans (JET) Program

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The JET program provides grants to eligible entities to purchase and install equipment necessary for the development of career and technical education (CTE) courses or programs that lead to a license, certificate or post-secondary degree in a high-demand occupation. The JET Advisory Board will meet at least once each quarter, or as needed, to review received applications and recommend grant awards.

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A publication series for High School Students

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The LMCI Career Information Hotline provides free career information to Texas students and educators. The Hotline operates 8:00-5:00 CST, Monday through Friday. Callers calling during non-business hours may leave requests on voice-mail. The program is funded by a grant from the Texas Education Agency ( TEA). Counselors and teachers can download and print the Student Request Form and list of occupations in the LMCI library. This is the form to use to order occupational information.

The Hotline staff also handles the distribution of a number of other career information materials useful to job seekers, students and educators. These materials include books, newspaper tabloids, brochures, bookmarks, video tapes and computer software. Please visit our online Career Publications and Products catalog.

Please call 1-800-822-7526 or us for more information.

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The LMCI Career Information Hotline provides free career information to Texas students and educators. The Hotline operates 8:00-5:00 CST, Monday through Friday. Callers calling during non-business hours may leave requests on voice-mail. The program is funded by a grant from the Texas Education Agency ( TEA).

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Texas Workforce Commission is the state agency charged with overseeing and providing workforce development services to employers and job seekers of Texas.

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Texas OnCourse | The college and career planning source

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The Texas Science and Engineering Fair ( TXSEF) is an annual event sponsored by TWC, ExxonMobil and other partners and is hosted by Texas A&M University for middle and high school students. Participating students display their projects and compete in 21 different project categories. Awards are given for first through third place in each category, two Grand Prizes and one Best-of Show winner in both the junior and senior divisions. Top finishers from the high school division are additionally awarded a scholarship to attend the prestigious Governor's Science and Technology Champions Academy held on a Texas university campus.

Top competitors in the junior division advance to the national Broadcom Masters competition. Some of the winning senior division entries go on to compete in the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair ( ISEF). Texas has produced many ISEF winners and has a proud history of success for its fair participants.

Students advance to TXSEF from one of 13 regional fairs held across the state. Finalists may participate as a team or have individual entries in the science and engineering fair competition. Students have an opportunity to display their research and receive recognition for their hard work from industry experts who volunteer as judges. Science and engineering fairs provide advanced education of science, mathematics, engineering and social sciences for students.

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