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Labor Market Information Center

What's New

South Dakota Career Interest Survey Updated

The South Dakota Career Interest Survey (SDCIS) which we developed a number of years ago, has been updated to encompass new occupations and to better reflect work tasks completed using today's technology. The SDCIS is available for downloading in Microsoft Excel (for electronic responses and self-scoring) or in PDF format (to be printed for manual responses and scoring). There is no charge, and no username or password is required to access the survey. The SDCIS is a great tool for career exploration, with the assessment helping users identify their interests and career paths. It uses the six John Holland-developed personality types (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional: RIASEC). After responding to the 108 assessment items in the SDCIS, a user's three highest interest areas are identified. Users can then Explore Occupations of Interest within those three areas using our online resources, learning in-depth information about the occupations with convenient links to our virtual labor market data system and O*Net.

Sweet Ideas

With Valentine's Day around the corner, we compiled some fun labor market facts to give you a few ideas of ways to show your love—not only to your sweetheart, but by supporting South Dakota businesses.

Overview of South Dakota Labor Market

See an overview of the labor market in South Dakota based on the most current data available, December 2024.

Snapshot of South Dakota's Economy

Get a quick synopsis, or snapshot, of the most current data available for numerous closely watched economic indicators.

Release Dates

Find out when the next data release from LMIC will be.