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Workforce Challenges? NAEP Scores Show U.S. Must Start Solving Them with a Focus on Early Reading
Cheryl Oldham
The 2019 Nation's Report Card, released last week, showed alarming drops in reading and disappointingly middling results in math. This has huge implications for our nation's future workforce and heartbreaking consequences for families across the country who are trusting our public education system for the most basic of learning goals.
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New Findings in the Development of a Cybersecurity Talent Pipeline
Kimberly Vegliante, Workforce Development Manager, Greater Phoenix Chamber Foundation
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With nearly 8,000 open positions, Arizona faces a growing shortage of cybersecurity professionals. In order to address this growing shortage, businesses must accept a stronger role engaging with education and training providers to build the region's talent pipeline. Three years ago, the Greater Phoenix Chamber Foundation launched a Cybersecurity Workforce Collaborative comprised of employers who have cybersecurity as a key function of their business.
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Upskilling, the Future of Work, and the Coming Agile Workforce
© Jordan Stead / Amazon
The future of work is now and the problem we are solving is not adapting to new technologies, but adapting to the dynamism of the economy, which will only accelerate. Dynamic economies require dynamic labor markets, and agile businesses require agile workers and workforce partnerships.
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How Young People Are Navigating the U.S. Work Economy in 2019
Kayleigh Alexandra, Micro Startups
Anyone who thinks this is an easy time for someone to navigate early adulthood is sorely mistaken. Young people face an unclear future. In the coming years AI systems will destroy and create entire industries and an end to scarcity will erode the basic working model. Is this cause for major concern?
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Building a Career Services Culture on Campus
Ian Avington, Director of Career Services, College of Health Care Professions
Lauren Cutrone, Senior Director of Career Services, College of Health Care Professions
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Ask a group of students when they first used their school's career services office, and you may hear that they stopped in sometime during their final semester. They may even say they made use of those services only during their last month. Even worse, many -- perhaps nearly half -- would say they never visited the office at all. It's a worrying response that's having an impact on students' lives after graduation.
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Building a Stronger Foundation for Growth by Investing in Hidden Talent
Sharon Bonney, Chief Executive Officer, COABE
As President Donald Trump moves forward with his pledge to rebuild America's infrastructure, we're going to need more workers. And as the nation looks to rebuild the American middle class, we're going to need more people who are workforce-ready to support it. But we find ourselves in a difficult holding pattern.
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Build vs Buy: Why the best solution for talent acquisition problems is workforce development
Charlie Schilling, General Manager, Enterprise Business, General Assembly
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The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that by 2020, there will be 1 million more computing jobs than workers to fill them. Demand for jobs in data science alone has grown 300 percent over the last four years. Tech skills like cloud computing and user interface design top the list of the most in-demand skills. It's a challenge that stems, in part, from the well-documented divide between higher education and the world of work. And the challenge is only accelerating as the shelf life of skills shrinks.
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The Age of Retraining: How Employers Are Working to Upskill Employees and Stave Off the Rise of the Machines
Kevin Mahnken, The 74
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When economists and editorialists speak in worried tones about America's "skills gap," they're referring to the mounting number of jobs that require some degree of technical know-how and the relative dearth of qualified candidates to fill them.
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How to Shrink the Skills and People Gaps
Sean Hackbarth
There's a lot of work to do and not enough skilled people to do it. That was the message U.S. Chamber President and CEO delivered at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation's Talent Forward event. "There's no question that the American workforce is the finest in the world," said Donohue. "But, if we are going to keep that advantage, if we are going to keep the promise of opportunity to future generations of Americans, we have some work to do."
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