January Monthly Meeting
January 25, 2017
11:00 AM CST - 1:15 PM CST
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Maggiano's Little Italy
2019 Post Oak Blvd
Houston , TX 77056
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Here Today, Better Tomorrow: The Decline and Recovery of the Texas and Houston Labor Markets
How Total Rewards Pros can glean information from trends to be more agile in 2017
The Texas economy is a diversified engine of job growth and opportunity. Since the Great Recession, Texas job growth was driven by a resurgent oil and gas sector, exports and rapid population growth. The Houston region played a significant role in the Texas job expansion and has seen both the positive impacts of sector growth and the repercussion of falling oil prices. The demand for worker skills is being influenced by an economy evolving around new technologies, different business practices and an increasingly global perspective. Some industries are disproportionately affected, and projected employment and wage growth in various occupations is uneven. A clear trend is emerging of increased demand for technical skills, and more jobs are being created for which new and evolving skill sets are in demand. All these phenomena influence both the availability and price of talent going forward.
Join us as Rich Froeschle shares an interactive presentation that highlights Texas statewide and Houston regional employment developments, and overviews labor market trends that are influencing occupational demand, employer skill and hiring requirements, and wage rates.
Be sure to come early for networking to meet your new board and fellow total rewards professionals.
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Mr. Froeschle has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin and a Masters degree in Manpower and Industrial Relations from the University of North Texas, where he also taught microeconomics, regional labor market analysis and workforce strategic planning. His writings include four books, Where the Jobs Are, Connecting the Dots, Working Texas Style, and An Atmosphere of Enterprise, a dozen monographs including Targeting Your Labor Market, Getting Down to Business, and The Texas Economy: An Age of Global Economic Opportunity, and many related essays and briefs all focused on the application of labor market and career information in education policy, workforce planning and economic development. Mr. Froeschle has made presentations at over 425 conference events over the past decade on a variety of labor market topics. His professional specialties and interests are in the fields of regional economic analysis, labor market dynamics, skill and job analysis, and the development and interpretation of labor market information; all of which have occupied his career for the past 36 years. |
Mr. Froeschle is a labor market economist and a highly regarded speaker on a wide array of topics relating to the Texas economy and workforce and education programs. He is the former Director of the Labor Market and Career Information (LMCI) department of the Texas Workforce Commission. He also served as Director of the Texas State Occupational Information Coordinating Committee (SOICC) and as a labor economist with the Texas Department of Community Affairs. Prior to his work with Texas State government, Mr. Froeschle conducted in-service training with the National Labor Market Information Training Institute at the University of North Texas in the areas of strategic planning and regional economic analysis for state and federal employment and training programs.
Tickets
$30.00 Member
$35.00 after 9:00 am January 25
$40.00 Non-Member
$45.00 after 9:00 am January 25
