NIC Inc. : Hawaii Directory of “Green” Employers Now Available to Public

Hawaii Directory of "Green" Employers Now Available to Public HONOLULU - 1/3/2012

as part of its Hawai'i Green Jobs Initiative. Green employers-who work in areas such as renewable energy production natural resource conservation post profiles in the Directory that describe their operations, specify their core occupations,describe the skillseducation they want in employees. Jobseekers access the employer profiles to learn about these companiesthe workers they require.

includes results from a 2010 survey conducted by the Hawai'i Green Jobs Initiative to assess the number of green jobs in the private sector in Hawai'i. These results additional employer data can be found in the directory launched today. The online directory allows employers to update their information new employers to add themselves to the directory.

"Hawai'i is blessed with hundreds of Green Employers operating thousands of work sites--and through our Green Jobs Initiative we are investing in Hawaii's workforce by providing training needed to work with green companies," said DLIR Director Dwight Takamine. "Now we have developed a comprehensive, centralized tool for matching existing employers with potential employees. This is an important step forward as we continue to build a sustainable economy."

. Employers may access their listings by clicking on the Administration Login link at the bottom of the Homepage. Businesses wishing to be added to the directory may contact the DLIR ResearchStatistics office at [phone] or [e-mail].

An American RecoveryReinvestment Act (ARRA) grant from the initially funded work on the directory. The directory will be maintained via the program, a largely self-funded public-private partnership between the State of Hawai'iHawai'i Information Consortium LLC a Hawai'i corporation wholly owned subsidiary of eGovernment firm . (NASDAQ: EGOV). This partnership has allowed Hawai'i to deploy award-winning applications such as: , , .

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launched the Hawai'i Green Jobs Initiative in December 2009 with federal funding under the American RecoveryReinvestment Act (ARRA) to assist the transition to a greener economy. The initial goal of the Hawaii Green Jobs Initiative is to generate green labor market information that users can be confident in. A core component of this green labor market information is an employers' directory.

For more information about the Hawai'i Green Jobs Initiative, please visit .

About ehawaii.gov

, is managed by Hawaii Information Consortium, LLC, a Hawai'i corporation wholly owned subsidiary of eGovernment firm (NASDAQ: EGOV). Hawai'i Information Consortium works with Hawai'i statecounty government agencies to enable them to conduct state business onlineimprove public access to government information.

About NIC

, online services,secure payment processing solutions. The company's innovative  help reduce costsincrease efficiencies for government agencies, citizens,businesses across the country. NIC provides for more than 3,000 federal, state,local agencies across the United States.