Help Wanted: Projections of Jobs and Education Requirements through 2018

This report offers snapshots of education and employment trends by state. Each state profile:

• Gauges each state’s position compared to the national average;

• Compares the educational composition of jobs in the base year (2008) to the forecast year (2018); and,

• Shows where the jobs are by state, education level and occupation, for 25 detailed occupational categories in 2018. (Abstractor: Author and Website Staff) 

"The state report finds that: • Only 19 states will be at or above the 63 percent proportion of jobs (nationally) that will require a postsecondary education beyond high school in 2018 • Jobs in the District of Columbia will have the highest concentration of postsecondary education in 2018; • The highest proportions of Bachelor’s degree jobs and graduate degree jobs will be concentrated in the northeastern states; • Jobs for workers with some college or with Associate’s degrees will be dispersed throughout the country; • Jobs for high school graduates or dropouts will be concentrated in the southern states; and, • Three states, Arkansas, Louisiana and West Virginia, are more than 10 percentage points below the national average, which means that the educational composition of jobs in these states will be mostly high school education levels or less in 2018." (p.1) (Abstractor: Author)

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• Resource Publication Date: 2010
• Author(s): Carnevale, Anthony P.; Smith, Nicole; Strohl, Jeff
• Organizational Author(s): Georgetown University
• Funding Source: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Lumina Foundation, Ford Foundation
• Resource Availability: Publicly available
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• Posted in: Workforce System Strategies