TRAINING GRANT GOAL:   Finding employment for Adult Education training graduates. 

 

WDB NEED:  Target and engage employers across their large and rural counties with active or potential job postings.  

 

EconoVue’s multi-dimensional search platform can quickly narrow or expand targeted outreach strategies based on key criteria, including Career Pathways, location, industry, business health, and available job opportunities.

 

Target stable, healthy, and hiring employers with signs of growth and open job postings. Consider whether an Adult Education Training Grant could play a role in helping businesses succeed when they recruit and retain skilled workers.

EXPANSION GOAL:  Help Mature Businesses with Succession Planning and Transition Generational Ownership. 

 

WDB NEED:  Find businesses 30+ years old for initial engagement.  

 

EconoVue’s search platform, which provides complete current and historical business information, enables workforce boards to use unusual criteria, such as unincorporated areas and year of establishment, to build highly targeted outreach strategies.

 

Predict which businesses are mature and looking to retire. Target stable and growing businesses with low failure risk to help them transition ownership to employees. Succeed when employees take ownership of the business.

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EDUCATION GOAL:  Identify Businesses for a Career Pathways-focused, Education-to-Employment Program. 

 

WDB NEED:  Find businesses offering job opportunities in the pharmacy career pathway, as well as on ETPL training providers to support job seekers.  

 

As workforce boards develop more targeted education programs, EconoVue’s robust occupation search (by O*NET code, job title, or keyword) identifies businesses with specific job opportunities. Therefore, this facilitates career ladder trajectory discussions with job seekers.

 

Predict the stability and growth of the potential employers. Target growing companies of a specific size with low risk and open job listings in specific occupations. Succeed when workers with disabilities are hired and become valuable employees.

DISASTER IMPACT ANALYSIS GOAL:  Assess the business & workforce impact of a natural disaster.

 

WDB NEED:  Understand specific businesses, size, industries, and employment impact in the affected fire zones, at the frontline/ZIP Code level, and create a data-driven assessment and strategy for deploying assistance resources to businesses.

 

EconoVue’s company-level data, combined with its robust, versatile custom search functions, enable workforce boards to conduct precise and customized searches & analyses. As a result, WDB can do so for virtually any business engagement, assistance, or workforce program.    

 

Assess the economic impact of disrupted businesses, industries, and workforce in the disaster zone. Target impacted entities by industry to offer assistance with business recovery. Succeed when businesses normalize business operations and return to steady-state prosperity.

 

EARLY INTERVENTION GOAL:  Early engagement and assistance for at-risk companies.

 

WDB NEED:  Identify companies with increased failure risk that are likely to lay off or close within the coming months.

 

EconoVue’s advanced search, using business health and failure risk indicators, gives workforce boards a forward-looking lens to identify early signs of employer risk and to adopt a proactive engagement and support strategy to provide resource assistance and preserve jobs.    

 

Predict which businesses are struggling and likely to do layoffs or close in a region. Target at-risk companies with fewer than 50 employees within all sectors or a specific sector that require early intervention and retention strategies. Succeed when transition strategies prevent layoffs.

layoff aversion

OJT GOAL:   Find the Right Job Opportunities for Disabled Workers with the Right Employers. 

 

WDB NEED:  Identify occupation-specific job openings to match a disabled workers’ skill set.  

 

EconoVue’s precise search and targeting capabilities enable workforce boards to find the best employers for disabled workers.

 

Predict the stability and growth of the potential employers. Target growing companies of a specific size with low risk and open job listings in specific occupations. Understanding the landscape of job opportunities for disabled workers can help ensure that workers with disabilities are hired and become valuable employees.

ECONOMIC IMPACT REPORT GOAL:  Building an Economic Impact Report for a Film Industry Sector Grant. 

 

WDB NEED:  Conduct an economic assessment of the film industry in its primary city to evaluate the potential reach and impact of a pending grant program targeting this sector.

 

EconoVue’s deep data enables a unique, specialized data search & retrieval for sector analysis projects.  The simple user interface enables complex, unique, and multi-dimensional data searches for custom insights.

 

Predict the industry, employment, and business market in the local market. Target growth or at-risk areas as opportunities in the plan. Succeed when localized sector strategies grow a community.

Announcing the Most Read Workforce Development Use Cases of 2025. 

 

EconoVue publishes use case stories bimonthly to showcase how we accelerate business engagement for a diverse set of Workforce Programs nationwide.

We invite you to check out EconoVue’s Most Read Use Cases of 2025:

1  Federal Contractors in your Region > READ NOW

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5. Job Placements for Veterans  > READ NOW

PROGRAM GOAL:  Targeted apprenticeship expansion across the broader region. 

 

WDB NEED:  Identify apprenticeship-friendly businesses and connect them to candidates and training partners. 

 

EconoVue’s specialized business, jobs, apprenticeship, and business health data enable precise targeting and engagement of businesses to encourage participation and sponsorship in Registered Apprenticeship Programs (RAP).

 

Predict growing industries and expanding businesses in your local community. Target the best businesses to become employer sponsors for the work-based learning program. Targeted Apprenticeship Expansion is essential for ensuring growing and hiring businesses participate in the program, and apprentices learn skilled trades within their targeted career pathways.

 

TRAINING GRANT GOAL:   Accelerating Statewide Workforce Training Grant Outreach to Farms and Agribusinesses. 

 

WDB NEED:  Target and engage operationally stable small and mid-sized farms and agribusinesses that employed <50 employees.  

 

EconoVue’s broad and deep business data enables precise eligibility targeting for grant and funding programs, improving business participation and increasing workforce board impact and assistance to their local business communities.

 

Target stable, low-risk farms and agribusinesses with <50 employees, and signs of growth. Succeed when the businesses recruit and retain skilled workers.