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selection for a firm thinking about opening or expanding operations in a region may hinge on its demand for appropriately skilled labor relative to the region's supply.
One
approach to estimating a firm's labor demands has been automated in the Interactive Industry-Occupation Matrix (the Interactive Matrix). This Interactive Matrix can help a new or
expanding business establishment form an educated guess about its labor requirements, a necessary prerequisite to evaluating the suitability of a region's labor supply.
The first step in this process BEGINS HERE with an
identification of the industry under discussion.
