Resources

InterLink’s Resources are developed for use in the classroom and beyond. Many of the topics are at the request of educators whom we serve, and others are used to guide us into the future.

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What Employers Want (available online in the Publications section)

InterLink asked regional employers the following question: If you had access to teachers of middle school to high school students, what advice would you give them to prepare their students for the workforce of the next 5-8 years? This power point presentation offers their responses.
Work-Based Learning Toolkit
Why Work in North Central Texas

Employer response to the question: From your perspective as a business leader, how does North Central Texas rate as a unit of measurement in meeting your business needs?

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InterLink Speakers Bureau Guidelines
Critical Workplace Basic Skills

InterLink hosted employers from across Texas who identified these skills and attributes as being critical for entry-level employment. They are validated each yearly through InterLink’s Employer Survey.

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InterLink’s Regional Employment Forecast supplements the three Workforce Solutions Boards in North Central Texas by providing a 16 county Regional Employment Forecast determined by an annual survey of employers.

We encourage all employers in the sixteen-county region to participate in the confidential survey conducted annually, since 1987.

The North Central Texas Region comprises Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Erath, Hood, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman, Navarro, Palo Pinto, Parker, Rockwall, Somervell, Tarrant, and Wise Counties.

InterLink also provides labor market services to schools in Grayson County.

This covers the north-central portion of Texas and includes some of the state’s most densely populated urban areas with more than four times as many people per square mile as the Texas average, which is growing at a faster rate than the state and most areas of the nation.

As shown in the following Regional Commute Pattern Graphic, a regional labor market forecast is important because the workforce is highly mobile and reflects the need for highly skilled employees for the occupations most in demand by employers throughout the sixteen-county region.

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