Some 2.2 million people on TikTok, Instagram and Facebook watch Czumak-Abreu do her work as an electrician in Cornwall, N.Y. Maybe you are one of them. Did you see her recently atop a bucket truck, adding utility outlets to power poles? Or fixing an electric panel in a water-damaged basement?
For too long, the field of workforce development has been viewed as a lesser path – a means of providing basic job training to the unemployed and underemployed rather than a catalyst for lifelong career advancement.
This was the first year SXSW organizers added a workforce track; accordingly, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) joined artificial intelligence (AI) advancements as key topics of interest for us. Experts shared that DEI is in metamorphosis and that DEI consultants will start to take more of a leadership role in defining the scope of work, rather than allowing companies to define the work.
Industrial site selectors must consider not only a prospective location’s current labor pool but also its recruiting reach and unanticipated future demands and costs of a particular market.
In the coming decades, as the pace of technological change continues to increase, millions of workers may need to be not just upskilled but reskilled—a profoundly complex societal challenge that will sometimes require workers to both acquire new skills and change occupations entirely.
The emergence of prestigious “degree apprenticeships” in the United Kingdom has implications for the future of higher ed in the U.S., Joe E. Ross writes.
Apprenticeships, work-based learning programs with both a paid work element and a formalized educational component, have been an important part of the United States' labor force development since they were formally established in the 1930s.
These are the top skills employers prioritized when recruiting, posting, and hiring for jobs.
Predictions and analyses of the fastest-growing economies among the top 100 —midsized cities.
As labor markets strive to rebound from the impacts of the pandemic, a talent shortage of historical scale has catalyzed.
