WDB Strategic Plans & Reports
In addition to WDB Strategic Plans & Reports, this page includes Priority Sectors, ICT Pathways, & Regional Needs Maps
Plans
Reports
Priority Sectors & Labor Market Information
Priority Sectors
- Healthcare
- Business and Entrepreneurship
- Retail, Hospitality, and Tourism
- Advanced Manufacturing
- Agriculture, Water, and Environmental Technology
- Education and Human Development
Click here for the 2024 edition of the priority sector posters for Ventura County. Click here for the posters in Spanish.
Click here for Priority Sector Training programs in Ventura County.
Labor Market Information
The State of California Employment Development Department provides Labor Market Information on their website.
The California Earn and Learn Occupations Tool is a web-based, interactive tool designed to assist job seekers and workforce partners to identify potential occupations in which you could earn a wage and learn new skills at the same time. Workforce professionals can use the tool to assist job seekers in finding occupations that have a potential for on-the-job training while gaining classroom knowledge. Job seekers can use the tool as a guide to find occupations that will pay middle to high-wage in their local area and offer minimum training to aid in joining the job market faster.
The tool offers three components:
- Middle-skill and middle to high-wage earn and learn occupations.
- Training institutions in the local are that offer courses related to the identified occupations.
- Job centers across California to assist the job seeker with job readiness skills.
The Online Job Vacancy Statistics Dashboard provides timely monthly measures of labor demand (advertised vacancies) for the United States, California, and 29 metropolitan statistical areas of California. Advertised vacancies data is extracted from Burning Glass Technologies, Labor Insight™ Real-Time Labor Market Information Tool using the Help Wanted OnLine (HWOL) universe filter. Job ads in the HWOL universe are collected in real-time from online job domains including traditional job boards, corporate boards, social media sites, and smaller job sites that serve niche markets and smaller geographic areas.
Things you will find in this dashboard:
- Top Occupation with the most job ads in your area
- Cities and Census Designated Places with the most jobs ads in your area
- Top Employment Sectors with the most job ads in your area
- Top Employers with the most job ads in your area
The purpose of the California Labor Market Supply and Demand Tool is a web-based interactive tool designed and developed to assist workforce partners, businesses, and educational institutions, by providing data to build and strengthen partnerships in alignment with the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act.
ICT Career Pathways Tool
This tool highlights existing and emerging opportunities for the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) field in Ventura County with the goal of identifying the top job postings, occupations, skills, education/experience requirements, and career pathways for those interested in ICT. Data was pulled from Lightcast, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Economic Development Department of CA, and local education and training providers.
Why We Have This
- Job developers, career service providers, and partners can use this to support job seekers in navigating career pathways
- Youth can use this to understand possible career pathways
- Education providers can better help students navigate
How To Guide
- Slides 4-10 provide contextual data for the top ICT positions in Ventura County
- Slide 11 visualizes each of the sub-industries that comprise the ICT ecosystem and selected occupations under each category
- Slide 12-35 provides an overview of each of the 8 sub-industries as well as a career map that comprises entry-level, mid-career, and advanced occupations.
- Slides 36-51 represent detailed descriptions and skills of all the occupations listed in the career maps (alphabetical order).
- In sum, the slides can be used to understand the ICT ecosystem in Ventura by looking at sub-industry career maps and accessing specific job cards for each occupation.
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Regional Needs Maps
The WDBVC mapped regional needs. We hope to support equity and job quality by reviewing where we should be providing services based on demographic need.
The maps in this tool can help clarify:
- What job seekers the WDBVC is serving
- Where there may be current gaps in services based on needs
- Where there is a high concentration of need in the County
- Where the WDBVC should target marketing and outreach
The maps can be found here.
