The USDOL Employment and Training Administration (ETA) sponsored a telephone conference on Friday, March 17, regarding the Administration's plans to discontinue support for America's Job Bank (AJB) as of July 1, 2007.

According to ETA, the environment has changed since AJB was started over a decade ago as most states have developed or purchased their own Internet-based job banks and the private sector has caught up and produced numerous nationwide job bank sites. The two major factors ETA weighed when making their decision to discontinue support for AJB were: (1) changes in the job bank market and (2) the costs associated with running AJB.

Following are links to documents that USDOL - ETA sent to state administrators regarding the AJB transition:

• USDOL - ETA Letter Sent to State Administrators (PDF)
• The Phase Out of America's Job Bank Questions and Answers (PDF)
• The Phase Out of America's Job Bank Fact Sheet (PDF)

DirectEmployers Association/JobCentral links relating to the JobCentral National Labor Exchange:

• Special DirectEmployers Conference Call presentation on August 2, 2006 (Online)
• Downloadable version of the August 2, 2006 conference call presentation (PDF)