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Special Reports
Clean Energy & Green Building Careers in Silicon Valley
This 2008 report is designed to help individuals explore and research a number of green careers available within Silicon Valley. This timely report provides information on specific careers within these industry sectors and a variety of links to other valuable resources.
The additional materials available here are from the community forum held December 12, 2008, in Sunnyvale.
E-handbook compiled and edited by Jim Cassio, career information professional.
Downloads:
- Clean Energy & Green Building Careers e-Handbook (PDF, 1.9MB)
- Community Forum PowerPoint presentation (PDF, 7.1MB)
- Transcripts of Panel Presentation (PDF, 760KB)
- Train the Trainer workshop handouts (PDF, 358KB)
"Exploring Green Jobs" e-Handout
This e-handout is for participants in NOVA's “Exploring Green Jobs” workshop with Jim Cassio. The e-handout includes the handout used in the workshop, as well as an extnsive bibliography entitled “Green Industry and Occupation-Specific Resources.”
- “Exploring Green Jobs” e-handout (PDF, 572KB)
This series of city-specific reports provides a summary of NOVA services provided to the residents and businesses of NOVA’s seven consortium cities for the duration of the 2007–08 fiscal year (July 2007–June 2008), as well as an overview of workforce and demographic data for each respective city.
Click here to access any one or more of these city-specific reports in PDF format.
In 2007, the California Space Authority asked NOVA to to join their “smart supplier” initiative. The overall purpose of this initiative was to characterize foundational “smart supplier” competitiveness skills for organizations. NOVA’s role was to learn more about the challenges and opportunities occurring with the transformation of supply chain management and to share that information with the local workforce investment community. As a result, NOVA has just released a white paper to introduce local workforce investment boards and others to supply chain concepts and the challenges facing suppliers.
Although the paper has a focus on aerospace and defense industries, we felt that overall supply chain management is an important business practice to understand in order to help businesses be more productive. It may also be helpful for job seekers to understand so that they can articulate how they would help businesses’ competitive advantage.
NOVA also developed a resource guide targeted to the needs of suppliers, including resources for workforce development, education and training, quality assurance, and other tools to enhance supply chain management effectiveness.
Click the following to access this white paper in PDF format:
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Industry Reports
NOVA has conducted a series of regional reports on industries of particular relevance to Silicon Valley. These industry reports provide in-depth information on a particular industry, focusing on the state of the industry within Silicon Valley and identifying trends as identified by those currently working within the industry. Particular focus is made to the primary occupations within the industry, the skills and education necessary for entry into and succes within these occupations and a description of the erspective career ladders and lattices.
List of reports:
- Silicon Valley: A Small Business Perspective (2006)
- Silicon Valley Roots: Foundational Occupations with Growth Potential (2006)
- The High-tech Downturn in Silicon Valley (2005)
- Space IT (2003)
- Information Security (2003)
- Accounting (2003)
- Education (2002)
- Healthcare (2001)
- Construction Trades (2001)
- Information Technology (2000)
- Bioscience (updated 2000)
- Hospitality (1999)
- Interactive Digital Media (updated 1997)
- Software (updated 1998)
- Service (1998)
- High-Tech Manufacturing (1998)
- Telecommunications (1996)
- Semiconductor (1996)
Some of these reports are still available in hard copy. To obtain a hard-copy report for just the cost of shipping, call 408-730-7835 or e-mail workforcepublications@novaworks.org. Visit the industry report archives to download selected reports in PDF format.
NOVA's industry reports may also be examined in the resource library section of the CONNECT! Job Seeker Center, 420 S. Pastoria Avenue, Sunnyvale.
Newsletters
Workforce Innovations is an e-mail newsletter published for the business community, educators, and career facilitators. Each issue focuses on current workforce development issues, trends, and resources. If you wish to subscribe to this newsletter, send a blank e-mail message with "Subscribe" in the subject line to workforcepublications@novaworks.org.
Most recent issue (html)
Workforce Review provides a monthly review of labor market statistics and related information for northern Santa Clara County. It also records the number of companies laying off workers and how many workers are affected. This publication is included in NOVA's e-mail newsletter, Workforce Innovations.
Most recent issue (PDF)
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