Iowa Workforce Needs Assessment

Workforce challenges reported by surveyed employers.

Actions employers took in response to workforce challenges.

This dataset shows the percentage of employers reporting they use retention strategies.

Details the specific retention strategies used and their reported effectiveness.

Advertising media reported by employers to fill job openings.

This data provides the websites reported by employers surveyed, to advertise their job openings.

Details the barriers to recruitment, as reported by employers surveyed.

Dataset showing the level of agreement employers reported for various difficulties in hiring they have experienced.

This dataset indicates how difficult hiring has been for employers, at the time of the survey.

Percentage of employers reporting difficulty in hiring by occupational categories of the open positions.

Perception of employers on if applicants fulfill skill requirements.

Shows three categories of skills: basic, hard, and soft and the percentage of employers who perceive they are lacking.

Dataset presents specific skills and the percentage of employers who perceive those skills are lacking in applicants.

Reasons employers give for rejecting applicants and the percentage of employers reporting each given reason.

Employers' plans for the future, in terms of downsizing, maintaining, or expanding.

This dataset shows the reasons given by employers for downsizing, maintaining, or expanding.

This dataset indicates the occupational categories that are expected by employers to be impacted by their future plans.

This dataset shows the percentage of employers concerned about retirements in the next 2 years, at the time of survey.

Strategies for retaining individuals who are eligible for retirement and percentage of employers using the strategy.

How employers plan to handle vacancies left through expected retirements.

Dataset shows the percentage of employers that reported that they provide training opportunities to their employees.

Types of training opportunities employers report providing employees and the percentage of employers providing each.

Number of job openings employers reported at the time of the survey. Provided by education level required.

Number of job openings employers reported at the time of the survey. Provided by industry of the employer.

Number of job openings employers reported at the time of the survey. Provided by occupational category.

Covering Boone, Dallas, Jasper, Madison, Marion, Polk, Story, and Warren counties

Covering Benton, Cedar, Iowa, Johnson, Jones, Linn, and Washington counties

Covering 42 counties in the western half of the state.

Covering Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Jackson, Lee, Louisa, Muscatine, and Scott counties.

Covering 20 counties in the northeast corner of the state.

Appanoose, Davis, Hardin, Jefferson, Keokuk, Lucas, Mahaska, Marshall, Monroe, Poweshiek, Tama, Wapello, Wayne, Van Bure