Center for Urban Research
New York City Labor Market Information Service
Strategic Consulting Services

Strategic Consulting Services

We offer custom data-driven intelligence, materials, and guidance to policymakers and service-providers in philanthropy, education, and workforce.

Possible topics/areas of focus for consulting projects include:

Targeting philanthropic investments
Program alignment assessments
Economic and employment impact studies
Market feasibility studies for new programs
Supporting research for grant proposals
Recommendations for creating and strengthening career pipelines
Identifying employment opportunities from economic investments
Supporting industry-employer partnerships
Assessing and improving uses of labor market intelligence

Please contact us at nyclmis@gc.cuny.edu if you would like to work with us on a strategic consulting project.

Example Works

Presentation on Building Labor Market Information Capacity (2016)

In November 2016, LMIS director Lesley Hirsch was invited by the Ontario Ministry for Advanced Education and Skills Development (MAESD) to present to a group of 20 senior provincial officials. The presentation familiarized the group with LMIS’ history and evolution into its current form, as well as its mission, products and services. Hirsch’s presentation then reviewed major the considerations and challenges of operating a entity that is responsive to the needs of multiple stakeholder groups for accurate and accessible labor market intelligence.

MAESD recently embarked on wide-scale efforts to improve its products and services in response to a report by the Premier of Ontario’s Expert Workforce Panel, entitled Building the Workforce of Tomorrow, released earlier this year, which recommended that MAESD "take a leadership role in developing and making generally available high quality labour market information so that everyone can make better decisions based on timely, relevant, and understandable information.” The meeting was arranged by Toronto’s Metcalf Foundation for whom LMIS had co-facilitated a daylong session on strategic use of LMI at the nation’s first Sector Skills Academy.

Panel Discussion: Making New York's Workforce Development System More Accountable (2015)

Hosted by Center for an Urban Future and NYATEP

How wage reporting data can help the state measure the success of its workforce development system

Featured panelists included:

Hon. Nily Rozic, State Assemblywoman, NYS Assembly Labor Committee
Lesley Hirsch, Director, New York City Labor Market Information Service
Melinda Mack, Executive Director, NYATEP
Todd Oldham, Vice President, Economic & Workforce Development, SUNY Monroe Community College
Jeff Sorensen, Research Specialist, NYS Department of Labor

Moderated by Christian Gonzalez-Rivera, Research Associate, Center for an Urban Future.

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This event was generously supported by the Working Poor Families Project.

Demand-Side Immersion Academy (2013)

Resources

Commonwealth Corporation, Strategic Employer Engagement: Building Dynamic Relationships with Employers in Teen and Young Adult Programs, A Workforce Development Practitioner’s Guide, 2013. Although this report is targeted to youth and young adult programs, most of the framework and tools are applicable to adult sectoral strategies too.
Clymer, C. and L. Wyckoff, Job Development Essentials: A Guide for Job Developers, 2nd Edition. Public/Private Ventures, 2001. Practical advice for workforce development professionals. The guide was updated in 2001 with a stronger emphasis on engaging employers, providing expanded services to the business community and involving business people as resources and advocates for an organization.

Cohort Learning Session #1

Project Kickoff Meeting on September 24, 2013

Supplemental Reading

Geographic Siting Analysis for Workforce1 Career Centers (2011)

The New York City Department of Small Businesses asked the NYCLMIS to perform geographic analyses that would inform the placement of 10 new Workforce1 Expansion Center. NYCLMIS mapped concentrations of service - people served and placed in jobs by the City's Workforce1 Career and Sector Centers - and need - individuals receiving Unemployment Insurance(using aggregate records obtained from the New York State Department of Labor). The results showed an overall alignment of service to need, even at the peak of the recession and identified strategic locations where additional sites could further improve service.

Green Collar Training and Workforce Development Conference (2009)

A PowerPoint presentation and data handouts containing the long-term outlook for occupations in selected green sectors in New York City were developed for and presented to over 100 workforce development providers at a meeting that was co-sponsored by the NYC Workforce Investment Board, the NYC Department of Small Business Services, and the Mayor's Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability on July 22, 2009.

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