Purpose
1. Automate the generation of labor market insights reports for city employment departments to streamline analysis of local employment trends, job vacancies, workforce demographics, and employer demand.
2. Automatedly aggregate, synthesize, and visualize employment data from multiple city, state, and national sources for reporting and strategic planning.
3. Enable fast, reliable, and regular report dissemination to stakeholders, including policy makers, employers, and the public.
Trigger Conditions
1. Scheduled automation (e.g., weekly, monthly, or quarterly schedule).
2. Event-based automation (e.g., new labor force survey published, new data upload to cloud storage, API webhook from job board).
3. Manual automation trigger (e.g., via dashboard or custom form submission).
Platform Variants
1. Microsoft Power BI
• Automates data aggregation, visualization, and automated publishing of labor insights dashboards.
2. Tableau
• Automates report generation, scheduled extracts, and automated report sharing with stakeholders.
3. Google Data Studio
• Automates pulling data and scheduled insights report generation for city employment analysis.
4. AWS Lambda
• Automates backend processing of labor data and triggers email/file publication.
5. Azure Logic Apps
• Automates workflow orchestration from data collection to report delivery.
6. Zapier
• Automates task flow for collecting, formatting, and distributing employment data reports.
7. Google Cloud Functions
• Automates serverless transformation and aggregation of employment datasets for automated insights.
8. Slack
• Automates sharing labor market highlights and summary reports to city employment teams’ channels.
9. Microsoft Teams
• Automates delivery of report summaries and links directly into team chats.
10. Google Sheets
• Automates data merging, analysis, and automated report creation on shared spreadsheets.
11. Smartsheet
• Automates labor market data collection and scheduled insights dashboards.
12. Salesforce
• Automates pulling employment-related cases/contacts for trend analysis and sharing.
13. Workato
• Automates end-to-end labor insights generation and multi-platform delivery.
14. Notion
• Automates updating labor market report pages and dashboards.
15. Trello
• Automates status tracking for labor reports and automates alerts for due reports.
16. Asana
• Automates workflow reminders for insights review and approvals.
17. Airtable
• Automates data intake, calculation, and automated report generation.
18. Dropbox
• Automates ingestion of new labor datasets to trigger report runs.
19. Google Drive
• Automates sorting, storing, and automatedly distributing generated reports.
20. Mailgun
• Automates direct email delivery of labor insights reports to predefined contact lists.
21. SendGrid
• Automates sending detailed labor market insight newsletters to subscribers and city officials.
Benefits
1. Automates repetitive report production, saving analyst hours.
2. Accelerates insights delivery for timely decision-making.
3. Improves reliability and accuracy by automating data integration and analysis.
4. Supports scalable, automatable dissemination to diverse audiences.
5. Enables more frequent, automatedly updated reports for improved tracking of city employment dynamics.
6. Facilitates continuous improvement through automation analytics and audit logs.
7. Reduces error risk by eliminating manual data handling.
8. Automates compliance by maintaining scheduled reporting consistency.
9. Strengthens collaboration through automated notifications and automated sharing across teams.
10. Fosters proactive strategy through automated early-warning triggers in employment trends.