Reports on how workforce areas are responding to the need to provide virtual services during the pandemic and their plans for reopening physical offices.
Suddenly Virtual: Workforce Services, Eight Weeks Later
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Insights from the New Jersey Business and Organization COVID-19 Impact Survey
Details a survey of New Jersey businesses and nonprofits about the impacts of COVID-19.
Topline Results: New Jersey Business Reopening Survey
Provides results from survey about reopening New Jersey businesses.
Suddenly Virtual: Accessibility in a Virtual Environment
Provides resources to address the needs of people with disabilities as they access virtual services.
Virtual Services Toolkit: The Basics
Provides information on tools to assist service providers in communicating with clients, as well as communicating with one another.
Suddenly Virtual: A Practical Guide for Frontline Service Providers During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Examines how workforce professionals are responding to the COVID pandemic.
Suddenly Virtual: Delivering Workforce Services in the COVID-19 Environment
Reports findings from a survey of frontline staff and managers in the public workforce system and three virtual roundtables.
Older Workers, Precarious Jobs, and Unemployment: Challenges and Policy Recommendations
Findings from a Heldrich Center survey of voluntary and involuntary part-time older workers.
New Start Career Network Cited in Recent New York Times Articles
The Heldrich Center’s New Start Career Network was mentioned in two recent New York Times articles.
Business Summit Presentation: Middlesex County Economic and Workforce Competitiveness Project
Business summit presentation for Middlesex County Economic and Workforce Competitiveness Project.
Public Libraries: A Community’s Connection for Career Services
Examines the extent to which public libraries across the United States are offering career services.
New Report: Public Libraries: A Community’s Connection for Career Services
A recent Heldrich Center study chronicles the extent to which public libraries across the United States are providing career services.
Investing in Opportunities to Create Good Jobs
Reports on the discussions held at a May 2019 forum on strategies and solutions to increase good quality jobs.
Libraries as Engines of Economic Development: An Overview of Economic and Workforce Trends in New Jersey
Presentation about libraries and workforce development.
The Role of Libraries in the National Workforce Development System
Provides information about a Heldrich Center study on library career services.
What Me Worry? Most Americans Not Concerned about the Impacts of Technology on Jobs (Report)
Survey examines Americans’ concerns about the impact of technology on jobs.
A Glass Half Full or Half Empty? Americans Agree the Economy is Strong, but Worry about the Future: Media Release (full report)
Reports on the findings of an August 2018 Work Trends survey of the American public.
A Glass Half Full or Half Empty? Americans Agree the Economy is Strong, but Worry about the Future: Topline Data
Topline data from August 2018 Work Trends survey report.
A Glass Half Full or Half Empty? Americans Agree the Economy is Strong, but Worry about the Future: Media Release
Media release for August 2018 Work Trends survey report.
Investing in America’s Workforce in the 21st Century
Explores employment and unemployment in Pennsylvania.