Assessing the California Public Sector Job Market

Description

Public sector institutions at local, state, and federal levels are facing an unprecedented hiring crisis in competition for new talent. Yet there is no systematic understanding of the needs and openings across these levels of government to inform stakeholders such as universities, community colleges, and high schools on the current and emerging hiring trends in what constitutes approximately 15-20% of the entire labor market. In this project, students will develop algorithms that continuously scrap relevant job sites used by these governments to assess both developed and emerging hiring trends by aptitudes, professions, entry-levels, mobility, location, and other important attributes. In so doing, the project will inform researchers in public policy, public administration, political science, and labor economics as well as practitioners in government and associated stakeholders.

Students

• Darren Cao

• Josephina Zhenni Bian

• Nicole Dias

• Ryan Silva

• Yi Ming

Advisors

• William Resh

What students will learn

Students will learn how to develop and organize labor market data to be used by practitioners and researchers through the construction of portal that can ably transform data into usable aggregated statistics and graphs.