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35 Critical Skills With Definitions
Active Listening: A person’s willingness and ability to hear and understand, focusing entirely on what is being said and confirming accurate comprehension of the message Application of Legal Skills: Basic understanding of legal processes and constraints as they pertain to a position or responsibility Business Case Development: Develop a compelling and credible business case for … Continue reading
The Skills Gaps in US – Where are the biggest gaps?
A July 2014 Financial Sense article reported that according to the National Federation of Independent Business, an advocacy group for small business, “The proportion of business owners reporting that they can’t find qualified applicants has been trending steeply upward since the end of the recession.” Further, “the most commonly cited shortages are in technical trades … Continue reading
From a Labor Economy to a Talent Economy
With Byron Auguste, Managing Director, Opportunity@Work and Robert Hohman, CEO, Glassdoor.
Skills Gap in US – More than 209,000 cybersecurity jobs unfilled
More than 209,000 cybersecurity jobs in the U.S. are unfilled, and postings are up 74% over the past five years, according to a 2015 analysis of numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics by Peninsula Press, a project of the Stanford University Journalism Program. A report from Cisco puts the global figure at one million … Continue reading
Youth Unemployment and the Skills Gap – Certainly it is a failure
Simon London: The sort of layperson’s view would be that this sounds like a sort of massive case of market failure. On the one hand, you’ve got a lot of idle resources—young people who want to work. And on the other hand, … you’ve got employers who are really struggling to attract and retain entry-level … Continue reading
Skills Gap – soft skills and the internal work makes them so hard
Here are three categories of soft skills and the internal work which I believe makes them so hard. Self-awareness is hard because it requires courage. Self-awareness is an essential attribute of an effective leader. Self-awareness requires owning personal behavior and accepting responsibility for your role in situations. The self-aware leader is skilled at pausing to … Continue reading
Skills Gap in Delaware – Pathways to Prosperity
Last year, in response to a need expressed by the Delaware Manufacturing Association for a pipeline of skilled workers to help the industry thrive in this new era, leaders from across the state came together to create a dual enrollment program for Delaware high school juniors and seniors. The two-year program kicked off in the … Continue reading
Grads Over-qualification and Skills Gap in UK – Many occupations have simply experienced either job competition report finds
The UK has witnessed one of the highest rates of higher education expansion across Europe over recent decades, but has not seen an increase in high-skill jobs matching that expansion – indeed, a number of countries with a slower expansion of higher education sector have experienced a larger increase in high-skill jobs. In this report, … Continue reading
Skilled Migrant Limit Reached in UK – CBI urges Cameron to lift it
David Cameron is risking the economic recovery by refusing to lift the cap on skilled foreign workers coming to the UK, the CBI has said. The monthly limit on visas was hit for the first time since it was introduced, in June and already again this month. Up to 20 firms have complained that they … Continue reading
Vocational education and training has been neglected OECD says
“Vocational education and training has been neglected. If “strong vocational programmes increase competitiveness”, “many programmes fail to meet labour market needs” writes the OECD in LEARNING FOR JOBS: SUMMARY AND POLICY MESSAGES. The OCDE review “aims to bridge the gap between learning and jobs, by exploring how to make initial vocational education and training for … Continue reading
Skills Gap in UK Digital and Creative Sector – 1.2 Million new workers needed between 2012 and 2022
The UK digital and creative sector has grown rapidly in recent years. It contributes almost nine per cent of total UK GVA and employs 2.1 million people. Digitisation of the wider economy is driving extremely strong demand for digital services, and the recent widening of tax relief has stimulated very strong growth in certain areas … Continue reading
The skills gap in US – How companies can fill it
The labor market, meanwhile, has steadily bifurcated, with menial low-wage jobs on one end and high-skill, high-wage careers on the other. Technology and competition from emerging markets have undermined those in the middle. Yet at the same time, there’s a skills gap: in the US, nearly two-thirds of companies report having positions for which they … Continue reading
Online talent platforms could add $2.7 trillion McKinsey finds
Labor markets around the world haven’t kept pace with rapid shifts in the global economy, and their inefficiencies have taken a heavy toll. Millions of people cannot find work, even as sectors from technology to healthcare struggle to fill open positions. Many who do work feel overqualified or underutilized. These issues translate into costly wasted … Continue reading
Skills Gap in Georgia – Many firms complain about the quality of workforce education
Many firms in Georgia complain about the quality of workforce education, especially technical and vocational, which is one indicator of a skills gap. Roughly, one firm in five sees workforce education as a major or severe problem. To put this figure into context, workforce education is deemed by a bigger problem than other labor related … Continue reading
China’s Skills Gap – Causes a sizeable share of graduates to take up jobs unrelated to their studies
The skills mismatch, defined as the difference between skills demanded by employers and those available in the market, can be captured using the MyCOS survey data based on the answers of over 150 000 graduates in 2013, six months after graduation. The survey asked graduates to judge whether a certain skill type is important for … Continue reading
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