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NOTE FROM THE DIRECTOR
by scdew
Welcome to the December 2022 issue of Trends! How much does the average South Carolina worker make in a week? Turn to page 21 …
Speaker of the House Murrell Smith announced a bill last month, H 3726, that was developed by the Economic Development and Utility Modernization Ad Hoc Committee . If it is passed by the General Assembly and signed into law by Governor McMaster, this legislation would centralize statewide workforce development programs within our agency, overseen by a new Office of State Workforce Development. This office would facilitate the creation of a new Unified State Plan, which is slated to include many new workforce analytics tools. This is genuinely exciting news, as it would put us in a position to serve employers and jobseekers even more effectively I would encourage everyone with an interest in our state’s labor market to watch this legislation closely
This month’s featured article is about talent attraction Our friends at Lightcast recently published a Talent Attraction Scorecard, which takes into account a number of variables and attempts to determine how states and localities are faring South Carolina came in tenth, with high ratings in most measures From there, the piece pivots toward what individual firms can do to improve the chances that their employees will choose to stay. What Lightcast calls the Four Pillars of strategic skills-based hiring are transparency, transferability, development, and affirmation. Read on to learn more.
As always, we’re here to help If you have any questions about workforce data, please don’t hesitate to contact us at lmicustomerservice@dew.sc.gov. Thanks for reading
P S Please note that we will be on a brief hiatus This month, our number crunchers will be working with the Bureau of Labor Statistics on an annual data revision process called benchmarking That means there will not be an employment situation press release in February There will be two in March to catch up, though, and we’ll put out a new issue of Trends in early April that will review the new data
Bryan P Grady, Ph D Labor Market Information Director SC Department of Employment and Workforce
