City Partners with Local Business to Provide Innovative Web Resource

The City of Roanoke’s Office of Economic Development announces that JobsEQ® Suite – a new economic development tool – is now available to help local businesses and job seekers make more data-driven strategic decisions. Access to this software is free to businesses, organizations, and individuals at

www.roanokeva.gov/businesseq.

Users must create a profile to begin utilizing this resource, which provides current career and labor data for the region by industry and access to current job seeker profiles.

The data and information available through the software is updated quarterly by Chmura Economics & Analytics. Job seekers can visit www.roanokeva.gov/connect and create a profile to begin a focused job search by industry in the region.

“Economic development is a dynamic process requiring innovative strategies and technologies such as JobsEQ,” said Assistant City Manager Brian Townsend. “This product will help businesses, organizations, and individuals make informed decisions which will positively affect Roanoke’s economic future.”

Some of the other tools the site provides to economic development staff include wage data, employment growth, labor inventory, entrepreneurial activities, labor supply and demand, forecast, emerging workforce estimates, cost of living adjustments, clusters, peer comparisons, worker skill set mapping, ad-hoc reports, shift share, and training needs.

“We are pleased the City of Roanoke’s Office of Economic Development has committed to this innovative technology tool to help its community,” says Dr. Christine Chmura of Chmura Economics & Analytics. “Roanoke understands that technology can play a vital role in economic development activities and they want to be the catalyst by sharing the data with their constituents.”

The software is also used in five other states outside of Virginia.

The Office of Economic Development will be holding its first demo/information session on Tuesday, July 28, at 8:30 a.m. at 117 Church Ave. Subsequent demo sessions will be held the fourth Tuesday of every month at the same time and location.

For more information, please contact Stuart Mease, Special Projects Coordinator for the City of Roanoke, at [email protected] or 540-853-2384.

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