The President's High Growth Job Training Initiative serves as a national model for working with leaders in high growth/high demand and economically vital industries to develop solutions to workforce challenges and to make strategic investments that address specific needs for these industries.
Employment in the Geospatial industry is on the rise. Because the technology's uses are so widespread and diverse, the geospatial market is growing at an annual rate of almost 35 percent, with the commercial subsection of this market expanding at the rate of 100 percent each year. The worldwide market for geospatial technologies has enormous potential. The most frequently quoted growth figures estimate the geospatial market at $5 billion in 2001, with projected annual revenues of $30 billion by 2005. This growth is due to many factors, including the sector's importance to national economic and security interests.
Workforce3 One is pleased to offer a series of insightful webinars that overview each of the targeted industries. These webinars feature business leaders and their education, economic development, and public workforce investment partners discussing the industry's workforce challenges and the successful demand-driven solutions implemented. Do not miss this informative high-growth industry webinar:
The Geospatial Industry - An Overview
Presenters: Mary Ann Stewart, Project Manager, Geospatial Information & Technology Association Doug Richardson, Executive Director, Association of American Geographers Cyndi Gaudet, Director of the Jack & Patti Phillips Workplace Learning and Performance Institute, University of Southern Mississippi Chuck Thomas, President, William F. Goodling Advanced Skills Center
Moderator: Brad Wiggins, Business Relations Group, ETA, DOL
Description: Many sectors of the economy are coming to depend on geospatial technology and information to aid in make more effective decisions and improve daily operations. The federal government uses it to manage forests, develop defense strategies, establish tax valuations and employ census data to determine voting districts. Utility companies use it to automate transmission and distribution networks and to build and service pipelines and communication networks. Cities are using geospatial technologies for applications as diverse as routing sanitation and emergency vehicles, replacing water mains, and matching equipment to job requirements. Private companies use geospatial information to make more informed decisions in areas ranging from site selection, to marketing demographics, to analyzing competition. Once a tool that was affordable only to the largest organizations, geospatial systems have become a cost-effective option for even the smallest organizations.
This Webinar provides an overview of the geospatial technology industry and sectors, key occupations and career opportunities, skills and education, key workforce challenges, and the investments that ETA has made to address those challenges.
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