Understanding the job market is key to a successful a job search. Learn how to identify opportunities and leverage labor market data to get ahead in your search for a job.
Overview
Syllabus
Overview
- Welcome
- The importance of the jobs, jobs data, and the economy
- Unemployment and joblessness
- Different measures of unemployment
- Underemployment
- Unemployment scarring
- Wages and job creation
- The labor force and population
- Labor force and unemployment
- Layoff data
- Online jobs data
- Jobs data and racial disparities
- Jobs data and gender differences
- Differences by age group
- Unemployment at the state level
- City (MSA) unemployment rates
- Global employment and jobs data
- Value of education
- Takeaways and more resources
Taught by
Jason Schenker
