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.
Can Florida's Workforce Support Future Defense and Homeland Security Cluster Growth?
Since her inception in 1959, Barbie has lived hundreds of lives, owned plenty of luxury dreamhouses, and was at the top of her game in over 200 jobs. And if you've ever wondered what trades Barbie has dabbled in, well, we've collected them all.
Nearly 6 in 10 women were employed in three sectors hardest hit by the pandemic: education and health; leisure and hospitality; and retail and wholesale trade.
In today's persistent tight labor market, the competition for talent is fierce. To attract and retain employees, organizations need to engage them.
While continued innovation drives and sustains growth, the one piece of the puzzle energy companies need to get there is greater gender equality in their businesses.
Employees need their leaders to be deliberately and relentlessly clear about what each job entails at every level of the organization, as well as about who owns what.
