ALMIS Fact Sheet, Employment & Training Administration (ETA)

The America’s Labor Market Information System (ALMIS) is funded by the One-Stop Career Center/ALMIS appropriation. The system produces high-quality workforce information and tools in a variety of media and formats for use by job seekers, employers, and workforce development professionals. This collaborative effort between the states and the Employment and Training Administration is continually developing and refining the information infrastructure critical to supporting the workforce investment system and One-Stop Career Center initiative. ALMIS is comprised of Federal, state and local components including data collection and analysis, research and information, product development, direct service delivery, technical assistance, and capacity building.

Specific activities include:

Career and occupational information available on the web and in local One-Stop resource centers.
Labor market analysts producing custom workforce information for customers from a variety of data sources.
Formula grants to states for developing core information products and services in each state resulting in comparable information, services, and products available nationally.
The CareerOneStop Portal (COS), a single point of entry to the content contained in ETA’s E-tools (America’s Job Bank, America’s Career InfoNet, and America's Service Locator) including: national and state labor exchanges, skills resources, career paths, wage information and local One-Stop locations.
O*NET, the electronic replacement for the Dictionary of Occupational Titles.
The Labor Market Institute, through traditional and distance learning methods, provides training and other professional development opportunities in labor market and workforce information for labor analysts and workforce professionals nationwide.
Multi-state research and development consortia that produce standard tools, methodologies and web applications that can be accessed and adopted by any state for producing and disseminating labor market and workforce information that meet demand driven end user needs.