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Aligned Workforce Development Efforts Support Businesses and Area Youth in Tempe

Haley Ast
Anne Gill, President and CEO, Tempe Chamber of Commerce
Education
Postsecondary Education
Workforce Training
Youth Employment
February 5, 2019
Center for Education and Workforce
Career Ready Tempe, AZ
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It has been one month since participants were announced for the U.S. Chamber Foundation Career Readiness Lab and the Tempe Chamber of Commerce has been moving quickly to respond to the call for innovative, Chamber of Commerce-led programming to better connect classroom to career. This summer, the Tempe Chamber of Commerce will launch Career Ready Tempe, a youth workforce pilot program intended to tackle barriers to employability for income-eligible youth and help employers create a robust youth talent pipeline.

How Young People Are Navigating the U.S. Work Economy in 2019

Kayleigh Alexandra, Micro Startups
Competitiveness
Education
Youth Employment
January 17, 2019
Center for Education and Workforce
How Young People Navigate the Work Economy in 2019
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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?

Building a Stronger Foundation for Growth by Investing in Hidden Talent

Sharon Bonney, Chief Executive Officer, COABE
Competitiveness
Education
Workforce Training
January 9, 2019
Center for Education and Workforce
Investing in Hidden Talent, COABE
© 2019 Getty Images
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.

In Texas, in Illinois, and Around the Country, Businesses Are Working With Students to Better Bridge Classrooms With Careers

Cheryl Oldham
Education
K-12 Education
Workforce Training
Youth Employment
January 3, 2019
Center for Education and Workforce
Businesses Are Working With Students to Better Bridge Classrooms With Careers
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Now more than ever, the success of American business and the effectiveness of our education systems are inextricably linked. Business leaders must be even more engaged in ensuring that our education and workforce systems are preparing learners beginning at an early age for the increasing demands of the globally competitive 21st century knowledge economy.

3 New Year’s Resolutions for Workplace Learning and Development

Kevin H. Johnson, CEO, Udemy
Data
Education
Workforce Training
December 27, 2018
Center for Education and Workforce
3 New Years Resolutions for Learning and Development
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With unemployment at a historic low, companies are coming up with creative ways to hire fast and at scale. But, as Udemy’s 2018 Skills Gap Report found, companies will see diminishing returns if they don’t invest in their workforce’s ongoing learning and development. 

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
Competitiveness
Education
Postsecondary Education
December 18, 2018
Center for Education and Workforce
CHCP Career Services Culture
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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.

Build vs Buy: Why the best solution for talent acquisition problems is workforce development

Charlie Schilling, General Manager, Enterprise Business, General Assembly
Competitiveness
Education
Workforce Training
December 12, 2018
Center for Education and Workforce
Build vs Buy, 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. 

The Age of Retraining: How Employers Are Working to Upskill Employees and Stave Off the Rise of the Machines

Kevin Mahnken, The 74
Competitiveness
Economic Growth
Education
Postsecondary Education
Workforce Training
November 27, 2018
Center for Education and Workforce
The Age of Retraining, Featured Image
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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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