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Demand Occupations List

Find occupations "in demand" across the State, and identify training programs for "in demand" jobs to help accomplish your goals. The Demand Occupations List brings together information about current job openings, trends and projections in employment and labor supply, and other current indicators of the labor market.

Statewide Demand Occupations List

The Demand Occupations
List can help career counselors
and their clients find relevant
skills training programs; shows
you where skills gaps are present
in the current economy, as well
as the size of the skills shortage;
and, anticipated employer
need for trained workers in the
listed fields.

View or download the list of
Demand Occupations that
includes the Training
Program codes (CIP code)
and Program Titles associated
with the code.

Demand Occupations List
Definitions and Terms

Message for Career Counselors

Use this list as a starting point
when approving individual
training programs in the
Workforce Development
Partnership (WDP) Act,
Workforce Investment Act (WIA),
and all other occupational training
initiatives within New Jersey’s
Workforce Investment System.

The Demand Occupations List
is NOT meant to be a final,
stand-alone authority for approval
or denial of training in Workforce
Development Partnership or any
other program.

When making training decisions,
it is also important to consider the
individual’s:

employability development plan,
local and regional labor market conditions,
the labor market area where the trainee is likely to seek employment, and
the impact of training on the individual’s marketable skills and earning power.

Exceptions to Demand Approval

View list of Training Programs Excepted Statewide

View list of Training Programs Excepted by WIB Area

If a Workforce Investement
Board (WIB) believes that an
occupation is not listed as in
demand in its area, it can
designate such an occupation
as being in demand and allow
program participants under its
jurisdiction to be placed in
training, after consultation with
the Department of Labor and
Workforce Development.
This is done in accordance with
the procedures outlined in the
Department 's
To Work Bulletin 2005-01 dated
April 14, 2005.
Download the Exceptions Forms