For workforce development boards
Prove the training matches the demand.
Are we training people for the jobs employers actually need?
Workforce boards are accountable for aligning training with demand, usually without the research staff to prove the alignment. MIQ Studio analyzes occupational demand, wages, skills and shortages across your region and the regions next to it, then produces the sector brief, the board dashboard and the grant evidence. Ask in plain language. Every figure carries its source, its period and its limitations, which is what a funder will ask for.
Labor market intelligence
- Which occupations are growing, and which are declining.
- What they pay, and how that compares against neighboring labor markets.
- What skills they require.
- Where shortages are emerging, and how quickly.
Program planning
- Compare training programs against occupational demand.
- Identify gaps between local training capacity and employer demand.
- Evaluate whether a proposed program aligns with labor market conditions before it is funded.
Career pathway development
- Identify adjacent occupations.
- Find realistic transitions from declining to growing occupations.
- Compare skills, education requirements, wages and job availability across those transitions.
Employer engagement
- Prepare sector briefs before employer meetings.
- Analyze workforce conditions around major employers.
- Identify the hiring problems common to an industry rather than to one company.
Across the region and beyond it
- Compare your labor market against adjacent and peer regions.
- Understand commuting patterns, which are by definition questions about other places.
- See where your workers are going and where your employers are recruiting from.
- Benchmark wages and occupational demand against the regions competing for the same workers.
Board and WIOA reporting
Labor market dashboards. Sector strategy reporting. Regional economic conditions. Workforce outcome analysis. Recurring board packets, produced on the cycle rather than before the deadline.
Grant writing
Generate the economic and workforce evidence supporting grant applications. Build regional need narratives with sourced statistics and stated limitations.
Evidence employers on your board will accept
Board employers know their own labor market. Every figure carries its source and the period it covers. Where data is suppressed, modeled or limited, MIQ says so, and where the evidence does not support a conclusion, MIQ says that too. You review, verify and own the work before it is published or used in a decision.
Go deeper
The use cases behind this work.