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SkillTRAN Releases Job Browser Pro - Version 1.50.6
November 7, 2007 - SkillTRAN has re-released its Job Browser Pro software. A new CD will automatically be shipped to customers subscribed to the online update service (ongoing maintenance). Subscription to the online update service is only $99 per 12 months. Customers with a current online update service subscription will get the upgrade to the new Version 1.6, which should be released by the end of the year. Version 1.6 will include a revolutionary new method for estimating employment numbers at the DOT level within an OES group. All Job Browser Pro customers are encouraged to upgrade to this speedy, new version.
New features include:
- Faster - new, very fast searching
- Current Data Set - All of the most current data and program files
- Keyword Search through the DOT descriptions!
- Separate screens for Employment Numbers and Wages - Great for those using Job Browser Pro for SSA VE Testimony
REAL JOB OPENINGS - Quick Search &
Secure Sessions for Classic Services
January 1, 2007 - SkillTRAN deployed three important new features for your convenience and your security.
- By customer request,
SkillTRAN added a new feature to the web-based service so that you can
quickly launch a search for Real Job Openings. Just add or choose your client,
then click the "Get Real Jobs" button on the Client Information screen. You can
enter any single occupation or keyword(s) for that client and the search will
be conducted based on your simple input, within an adjustable radius of the
client's zip code. As in the standard Real Job Openings area, you can save as
many actual job openings to a list specific for that client. The other method
of searching by each occupation chosen in the occupations screen for additional
Labor Market Research (LMR) continues the same.
- SkillTRAN
has finally found and deployed a suitable and secure alternative to Telnet.
Just use the service as you normally would. All data transmitted between your
keyboard and the SkillTRAN server is encrypted. Many have already
commented that they prefer the new black letters on a white
background.
- The new Online Service login page
has also been revised to detect your Web Browser type and remind you to only
use Internet Explorer to access this site. The page also tests for and advises
you on several key issues including Pop-Up Blockers, Screen Resolution, and
Text Size. If there are any problems with the way that your Web Browser
appears, the new login page will prompt you with solution(s).
December, 2006 - SkillTRAN began shipping Job Browser Pro - Version 1.5 on December 22, 2006. The latest version of Job Browser Pro includes the following:
- Fresh Data
including:
- 2005 CENSUS data for National Wages and Employment Numbers
- 2005 OES data for National, Statewide, and Metropolitan/Micropolitan Wages and Employment Numbers
- 2004-2014 OES Long Term National Employment Projections by NAICS Industry
- Occupational Density Factor (Percentage) of OES occupations by NAICS Industry - useful for better estimation of local OES employment numbers by DOT code
- 2006-2007 Occupational Outlook Handbook
- Sort titles by DOT Code, DOT Title, Industry, SVP, Strength,
GED-RML or O*NET code - Holland Code Search
(R-I-A-S-E-C) for Career Guidance
- Just click the Interest button. - Completely re-engineered "under the hood" - new database engine
- Online Update Service (Optional but highly recommended) to keep the data current. The re-engineering process grouped the data files together that will likely change due to the government update schedule. When you start up Job Browser Pro and you have an Internet connection, it will start a "True Update" process to determine if there are fresh files you can download. This new service is free for new purchasers of Job Browser Pro. Existing customers must subscribe to this new service for a 12 month interval.
November, 2006 - SkillTRAN updated the dataset of business listings to be used for cold job search and labor market survey. The new data set is smaller (only 10+ million records vs. 15 million), but the quality of the listings should be even better.
SkillTRAN has begun some statistical studies to evaluate the relationship between the structure of the SkillTRAN data set and Federal Government County Business Patterns, which ultimately emerge from Federal tax records. Comparing the frequency with which each NAICS (National Industry Classification System) code is found in the SkillTRAN vs. the government County Business Patterns, the initial correlation is .93 which is highly significant. More studies will be done, but your confidence in the SkillTRAN Business Listing data set should rise given this finding.
REAL JOB OPENINGS - 5.5 MILLION - Updated Daily
August 8, 2006 - SkillTRAN introduced the ultimate professional tool for job search and labor market survey - access to REAL JOB OPENINGS. SkillTRAN has integrated access to more than 5.5 MILLION current job openings, none more than 60 days old, everywhere in the country. Between 75,000 and 125,000 new openings are posted each day. The data is combined from daily research of 170,000+ job boards and company web sites. SkillTRAN supplements this job openings data with relevant available Labor Market Information. Results are grouped by company name and job posting source to make follow-up calls a breeze. There is no distracting advertising and no need sign on or register at individual sites.
This is the fastest, most efficient, and most comprehensive research tool ever created to facilitate real job search and labor market survey. Individual openings can be instantly reviewed and optionally saved to a custom list per client. Click here for more details.
Also available are fresh Occupational Employment Survey Employment Numbers and Wage data for May, 2005 - National, Statewide, and for Metropolitan and new Micropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA). The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has modified its geographic boundaries for a number of these MSA areas and increased the number of local areas reported from 356 to 398 distinct areas, including new emphasis on the New England region.
Long term national occupational employment projections are also available with 2004 as the base year and 2014 as the projected employment year.
NEW CENSUS-BASED WAGE / EMPLOYMENT DATA
Spring, 2006 - SkillTRAN replaced Census occupation wage and employment data for Combined Men and Women, Men Only and Women only. Wages are reported using mean and median values. Census data is gathered during the monthly household Current Population Survey (CPS) and reported annually at the national level only. The data is available both in PREPOST and in the new web-based services for Labor Market Information.
FRESH BUSINESS LISTINGS AND LABOR MARKET INFORMATION (LMI)
December 16, 2005 - SkillTRAN announced updated business listings today and new LMI. The updated LMI is Occupational Employment Survey (OES) data (wages and employment numbers) as of November, 2004. The updated data covers all national, statewide, and MSA - Metropolitan Statistical Areas. The data is always at least one year behind.
SkillTRAN also announced the availability of new documentation of all of these data resources. Customers should contact SkillTRAN for more details or login to the new web-based server, then click the Support hyperlink in the upper right corner.
LABOR MARKET INFORMATION
NOW AVAILABLE ON WEB-BASED SERVICES
August 20, 2005 - SkillTRAN has expanded its new web-based services to include Labor Market Information (LMI). The new features enable selection of the most current government LMI for both wages and the number of people employed by occupation. New LMI includes Current Population Survey (CPS) national wage and employment data (including unpublished values) for year 2004 collected by the Bureau of the Census. This annual data uses the new Census 2000 occupational codes and can be requested by gender, mean, and median. CPS data is self-reported by household survey respondents.
New LMI also includes Occupational Employment Survey (OES) data collected at the National, State, and local MSA levels. Mean and %ile median wage data is available with employment numbers current as of May, 2004. OES data is reported by employers and is updated twice per year.
Additionally, National Occupational Employment Projections for Years 2002-2012 are available. These new report formats can be combined with each other in a single report to enable a highly customized report, with or without business listings. Customers using the classic PPS system for Transferable Skills Analysis will find that the most currently selected occupations from a search are automatically transferred to the new server for LMI as a group of occupations, just as are now done for requests for business listings.
Business Listings have also been updated on the normal quarterly schedule.
Business Listings Data Updated
May 25, 2005 - As announced earlier in the month, business listing data has been updated. A whopping 96.2% of the listings have phone numbers that match current directory assistance files. This should substantially increase the reliability of labor market survey contacts. A total of 13.2+ million new business listings are now available to customers for Job Search or Labor Market Survey by NAICS code, radius around a client's zip code, by city name, county/counties, MSA, statewide, or nationally. Customer feedback about the changes introduced early this month have been quite favorable.
SkillTRAN Deploys Secure Web Server and New Source for Business Listings
May 3, 2005 - The BUSINESS LISTING module has been greatly improved. We have changed our data supplier to Firmagraphix, a division of Market Models. The business listings database is gathered from research of more than 200 different public Federal, State, and local data sources such Chambers of Commerce, Applicants for government grants, etc. As a "Business to Business" file, it is compiled using proven methodologies to identify as many unique business entities, large and small, everywhere in the United States. More than 13.2 + million unduplicated businesses are on file that are frequently verified from multiple sources (not just outdated annual Yellow Page listings or historical business credit information).
Reports are now prepared in seconds instead of minutes. Reports can be immediately printed, it can be securely saved on your local computer, or it can be emailed to you. Corporate customers can elect to suppress the email feature if it would compromise their HIPAA or other regulatory compliance - contact SkillTRAN for details.
The new data set is current as of February, 2005 and will be updated again on a quarterly basis. Some new data fields are included in the report, such as the Year Started and a SOHO flag to indicate if the business is a Small Office or Home Office. Since there can be multiple contacts at a company, the data set is built with a bias towards those with hiring authority who can best answer your labor market questions during survey. In the upcoming data file (available mid-May and all subsequent updates), phone numbers are validated against Directory Assistance files - so that your labor market survey efforts will be increasingly accurate.
Smart selection technology employed at SkillTRAN favors random selection among the most reliable listings available when a subset of the available listings in a given area are chosen. Random selection within your chosen geogrphic and industry parameters is consistent with proper sampling techniques.
All in all, we are very excited about these newest changes. There are some additional data elements in the new database that SkillTRAN expects to be able to use in exciting new ways as well. We look forward to your additional questions and comments. We are diligently at work on the next phase of development - delivery of multiple sources of current labor market information for wages and numbers employed.
NEW CENSUS 2004 NATIONAL WAGE DATA
March 3, 2005 - New Census 2004 national median wage and employment data is now installed in all the classic online services. The data uses the new Census 2000 codes used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the monthly Current Population Survey (CPS). Data includes unpublished wage and employment data for occupations with fewer than 50,000 workers nationally. As the number of workers surveyed shrinks, the standard error of measurement for this data increases.
Keep checking this area for more NEW CHANGES COMING SOON !!!
NEW JOB BROWSER PRO - Version 1.4
September 20, 2004 - SkillTRAN released the latest version of Job Browser Pro - Version 1.4. The new version has updated data and new features, including:
- Complete 1991 U.S. Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) - 12,741 job descriptions, titles, & codes + 23 subsequent DOT occupations
- Alternate military and civilian titles (more than 36,000)
- Worker characteristics information for all 12,764 DOT occupations (including updates): Strength, Physical Demands, Working/Environmental Conditions, Specific Vocational Preparation (SVP), General Educational Development (GED), Aptitudes, Temperaments, Date of Last DOT Update
- 2003 National mean and median wage and employment data (by CENSUS 2000 code) for Men only, Women only, or both combined
- 2003 National, Statewide, and Local (MSA) mean and median wage and employment information by the new SOC-based OES codes
- Complete occupational reference text from the 2004-2005 Occupational Outlook Handbook (including photos)
- Long term national job outlook (OES) by NAICS industry (2002 --> Year 2012)
- Cross references to all North American occupational classifications, including: Industry Designation (DOT); Guide for Occupational Exploration (GOE); Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP 2000); CENSUS 2000; Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) [both 1990 and 2000 revision]; Occupational Employment Survey (OES - both new and old codes); Occupational Outlook Handbook (2004-2005); WORK fields; Material, Product, Subject Matter & Services (MPSMS); Canadian National Occupational Classification (NOC 2001); O*NET Codes [both 1998 and 2004 O*NET-SOC Version 6.0], Occupational Group Arrangement (OGA); and Data-People-Things (DPT) - Worker Functions
- New style of Help
- New, emerging occupations (original research) reported in same DOT format
Click here for more information about the Job Browser Pro software.
NEW CENSUS 2003 NATIONAL WAGE DATA
April 9, 2004 - New Census 2000 codes and national Census 2003 national median wage data are now installed in all the classic online services. Census 2000 codes are based on revised 3-digit codes now used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the monthly Current Population Survey (CPS).
These new codes are cross-referenced to the SOC 2000 (Standard Occupational Classification). The SOC 2000 codes are the same as the new OES (Occupational Employment Survey) codes. Use the crosswalk tables below to quickly cross-reference to other sources of Labor Market Information, such as statewide employment numbers, long-term projections, and wages.
CENSUS 2000 —> SOC 2000 SOC2000 —> Census 2000
WEB-BASED SERVICE for Current Business Listings Gets NEW Speed Enhancements
February 2, 2004 - SkillTRAN deployed dramatic speed enhancements for its new web-based service, resulting in a 94.5% improvement in responsiveness. The improvements are due to a combination of faster web connectivity, a dedicated high speed database server, and a re-engineered method for obtaining counts. Industry counts are done in less than 10 seconds total. This speed enhancement will make the labor market research process pleasant and fast.
For customers,a new tutorial document is available now to explain how to use the service. Contact SkillTRAN to obtain a copy by email.
September 3, 2003 - SkillTRAN Launches NEW Web-Based Service for Business Listings
SkillTRAN launched an entirely new web-based service designed to access high quality, regularly updated (quarterly) business listings. The new source of these listings is InfoUSA, a market leader in timely information about business. The information approaches 95% accuracy, so job search and labor market survey are much more efficient. The new service is easy-to-learn and easy-to-use. Because it is web-based, it can work with or without other SkillTRAN products/services.
The new web service integrates with the existing TELNET-based services or can be accessed by subscribers independently of the "classic" services. This approach encourages users of other TSA programs to take the results of what they already have and get useful information for labor market survey and job search. The new service uses NAICS industry codes (replacement for the SIC) and takes advantage of web-based technology. New features include:
- Web-based - Uses familiar browser features. Use your mouse to "hover" over occupational lists to see more information, then click the hyperlink for more extensive information, including O*NET codes, titles, and occupational definitions.
- Reports are all HTML - Great looking, complete with MapQuest hyperlinks. HTML-based reports can be copied, pasted, and edited in most modern word processors.
- Optional new report format for Labor Market Survey - Includes up to three additional questions you want to ask each employer.
- NAICS codes - This is the new 2002 replacement for the 1987 SIC codes. Expect labor market information to begin using NAICS very soon.
- New data source: InfoUSA - With quarterly updates and 95% accuracy. Search by Zip code radius, city, county, MSA, State, Region, or Nationally !!!
- Online help system - Just click a help icon to pop up instant help. Built-in access to the "Customers Only" support area without separate login.
- Full integration to the classic TELNET-based online services. DOT occupations are cross-referenced to O*NET codes and can be sorted.
- New Report Finder - Instantly displays your prior reports.
- Re-engineered to enable you to enter (and remember) all information BEFORE purchasing a report. You can make some initial choices, logout, then return again at another time to complete your request.
Current customers can use this new service immediately by going to this new web address: www.online.skilltran.com and logging in using your current username and password. This new service includes features distilled from many comments and suggestions made by customers over the years. Your continued comments and suggestions will be most welcomed.
Click here to sign up for online services.
June, 2003 - Professional article (in press)
ABVE members can look forward to a new article, currently in press, entitled "Transferable Skills Analysis and Vocational Information in a Time of Transition". The article, authored by SkillTRAN President Jeff Truthan and SSA Sr. Policy Analyst Sylvia Karman, squarely addresses the challenge of trying to use O*NET data in transferable skills analysis. The article will appear in the Journal of Forensic Vocational Analysis, Volume 6, Number 1, June, 2003. Reprints of the article will be available from ABVE. An advance copy of the text of this article is posted at the SkillTRAN web site (with permission from ABVE). Click here to read this important article.
April 24, 2003 - NEW - CENSUS 2002
WAGE DATA
Wage data has been
refreshed in all online products. The wage data available now in all reports is
for year 2002.
Spring, 2003 - New Pocket Guide to the DOT
At LONG last, SkillTRAN has revised and re-published the ever popular Pocket Guide to the DOT. The Pocket Guide is a two-sided, four panel summary of the frequency distribution of all of the DOT worker characteristics. The new Pocket Guide also has web links to a variety of excerpts from the 1991 Revised Handbook for Analyzing Jobs so that full definitions of the characteristics can be quickly located.
Call SkillTRAN at 1-800-827-2182 and ask for a FREE COPY of the Pocket Guide. Ask about pricing for additional copies, available in various packages. Pocket Guides are an excellent reference and marketing tool for you, as you can give them to your various referral sources as a handy reference for the vocational reports you generate. IARP members should look for a complimentary Pocket Guide in their next (July/August/Sept, 2003) issue of "The Rehabilitation Professional".
April 1, 2003 - SkillTRAN is now SkillTRAN, LLC
It is time to change the form of our business to LLC status (Limited Liability Company). Effective today, please direct payments to SKILLTRAN, LLC. There is a new EIN # 03-0511598 for customers who need this information. Please pass this information on to your accounting department.
There is no change in the principal of the company, just a business decision to operate under a corporate structure rather than as a sole proprietorship.
Stay tuned for a mini-newsletter soon with more news, particularly about a whole new approach to getting current business listings. We've been working on it for the last 18 months ... so we look forward to bringing this out very soon.
December, 2002
- Job Browser Pro - Version 1.3
Features new data files, fully
integrated, editable Job Analysis Format, SOC2000 / O*NET Codes, hyperlinks to
O*NET Online and sources of additional information, Search by SOC 2000 / O*NET
codes and Unskilled occupations, help files now include frequency distribution
tables for all DOT worker characteristics, and more. Click here for full product details.
Click here to see some screen shots of this exciting
new release.
November, 2001 - All SOS customers
New HTML Report Format
Available
SkillTRAN Online
Services produce reports that can now be emailed to you as an attached HTML web
page. If you want to be able to very simply print the report without editing
and you can receive attachments in your email, SkillTRAN highly recommends this
method for very easy report printing right from your web
browser.
Labor Market Research Survey
THANK YOU for the many responses to our emailed
questionnaire about Labor Market Research and Survey. Your answers are guiding
us to a significantly enhanced new way to drill down to necessary labor market
information. More than 20% of the customer base responded. Wow!
October, 2001 - PREPOST
SOS PREPOST customers can now easily discover why a particular
occupation is NOT included in the post-injury list of occupations. Just choose
the Post Search option to "Compare to an Intended Goal". Only the differences
between the target occupation and the worker characteristics profile will be
displayed. Most labor market information is available for this target
occupation as well.
8/24/2001 - SOS
CASE ID / Number Accounting and PPS Menu
Changes
Case ID. All SOS services now begin with an optional
prompt for CASE / ID number as the selected SOS product begins. You can enter
numbers and/or letters. The optional information you enter will be added to the
report heading (optional client name). This information will also appear on
invoices to better identify the case for your internal accounting
purposes.
PPS Menu
Changes. These new menu changes better align the menus with the 4 steps
of processing a case with E-A-S-E:
Step 1 - E -
Enter work history
Step 2 - A -
Adjust the worker profile
Step 3 - S -
Search for suitable alternatives
Step 4 - E -
Explore the search results. Add labor market information,
etc.
Several new screens appear between Steps 1 and 2 to encourage
important decision-making about whether a person was "average" prior to an
injury. More detail was added to the Step 4 - Explore menu. All of these
changes come from the many great questions asked by our rapidly growing
customer base, particularly the new online customers. Keep asking those
questions!
7/30/2001
NEW - Web-based Support Area for Online
Customers Only
Online customers of SkillTRAN can now
visit the secure "Customers Only" area of the SkillTRAN web site to obtain
online, web-based documentation and tips for processing online cases. This new
area includes a variety of statistical tables about the distribution of worker
characteristics in the DOT. It is an expanded and web-based version of
the popular DOT Pocket Guide. Topics include:
- Product overviews and case processing tips
- Case Preparation Tips
- Common Case Situations - Suggested profile adjustments and traps
- Worker Characteristics
- Documentation of the transferable skills analysis process
- Case Preparation Guide (2 page PDF)
- New Subscriber Guide (18 page PDF)
To gain access to this area, refer to
the web page mentioned in the "New Customer Login Instructions" emailed to you
when you first subscribed to SOS. You will need a special user name and
password. You can also call (509-927-8195) or
email
SkillTRAN for instructions.
Click here to login to the "Customers
Only" area now.
S.O.S. - SkillTRAN Online Services - Available NOW !!!
SkillTRAN is pleased to re-launch online services that had previously been available at CAPCO®/JobQuest®. ALL of the online products are available including PPS, PREPOST, CCS, and JSS. Year 2000 CENSUS wage data is already installed.
Click here to be rescued by SOS!
After two months of testing by a core group of experienced users, SkillTRAN has relaunched the four online products that had been well known in the marketplace under the CAPCO/JobQuest label. Since CAPCO/JobQuest ceased its business operations last summer, there has been a great void in comprehensive, well-integrated transferable skills analyses with highly localized labor market information.
SkillTRAN is extremely pleased to be able to restore these services to you. Initial response has been very favorable. SkillTRAN looks forward to the opportunity to restore your confidence in the quality, comprehensiveness, and support that you deserve. Please visit www.skilltran.com/online.htm for complete product details.
What About Transferable
Skills Analysis?
SkillTRAN is very pleased to be
able to deliver online TSA for both rehabilitation and forensic work. TSA
technology is embedded in three of the four online products.
Please click here to learn more
about SkillTRAN's online products.
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About JobQuest or
CAPCO
If you are wondering about JobQuest, visit the
Press Releases page for more information.
JobQuest has ceased its business operations. See the latest press release.
JobQuest was the new name for CAPCO in 1996.