WorkInTexas.com Blog & Comment Policy (last updated – 11/30/2011)
The purpose of this blog is to facilitate an ongoing dialogue between WorkInTexas.com (herein referred to as Texas Workforce Commission), representing the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) and its users on job search tips, techniques, ideas, and all things related. We encourage your comments; your thoughts and concerns are important to ensure that a broad range of users are active and informed participants in the discussion. WIT reserves the right to modify this policy at any time.
This is an open blog. That means all comments are posted as submitted. We want to maintain an open and candid dialogue; however we expect that participants will treat each other, as well as TWC and its employees, with respect. Comments that contain vulgar or abusive language; personal attacks of any kind; or offensive terms that target specific ethnic or racial groups will be removed. We will not post comments that are spam, are clearly “off topic,” that promote services or products, or make unsupported accusations.
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This blog should not be used to:
- Report criminal activity. If you have information for law enforcement, please contact your local police agency.
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- Submit unsolicited proposals, or other business ideas or inquiries.
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- Submit any claim, demand, informal or formal complaint, or any other form of legal and/or administrative notice or process.
- To exhaust any legal and/or administrative remedy.
This is a place for facilitating open discussion, collecting suggestions and new ideas, and addressing common misunderstandings or issue. It is not a substitute channel for TWC services, processes, procedures, or specific policy or programmatic questions.
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Thank you for taking the time to read this comment policy. We encourage your participation in our discussion and look forward to an active exchange of ideas.
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What happened? Your previous site was very easy to use.
Your new website is NOT user friendly. More often than not, if I try to log in, it insists I need a new password. I have gotten lots more emails with job notices but when I do manage to log in, most of them are not showing. HELP!
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I apologize for the problems you are encountering accessing WorkInTexas.com. Are you by any chance using IE 8? The issue you describe sounds like the ‘Compatibility View’. From the Tools menu, check the box that allows your browser to be compatible with other versions, and also remove “add-ons.” If you are using another version of IE, you may want to check your Content Advisor settings to make sure your Content Advisor is disabled.
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How do you notify twc about unemployment statis without filing a claim when you are out of benefits. It seems that when you are out of benefits it make the unemployment rate for your state go down.
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Hope this helps. Per our Unemployment Insurance Division experts: It’s a common misconception that the number of individuals drawing unemployment benefits affects the actual unemployment rate. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) calculates the official unemployment rate by dividing the number of unemployed workers by the total population in the workforce. The BLS relies on survey data to determine who is unemployed. These data come from the Current Population Survey (CPS), which is a monthly survey of households conducted by the Census Bureau for BLS. It provides information on the labor force, employment, unemployment, persons not in the labor force, hours of work, earnings, and other demographic and labor force characteristics.
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Actually your response is true for national data but at the state and local levels the CPS is just one input into the estimating models that also include counts of UI claimants among several additional variables. These models generate estimates of the labor force and estimates of the number of persons unemployed. Dividing the latter by the former yields the Urate.
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I received a job match today for job posting 6203770 – SR Admin Assistant. Under the job posting contact information, is this link: http://www.superiorjobs.com/showjob.asp?job_number=268225, which leads to a page that states, “This job is no longer available.” The posting creation date is 7/17/12 and the closing date is 8/16/12. I understand that jobs fill quickly but since I literally signed up for this service yesterday, it makes me wonder.
More importantly, there should be a link some where on the Work in Texas site where one can report “closed” job issues like this. It is understandable that Work in Texas employees may not be able to keep up with or actually receive this information. What makes no sense is the lack of options for job seekers to report these issues.
I am using this blog as the only place I could find online to report this problem, however, I actually feel this is an inappropriate place for it.
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