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Workforce Training

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation publishes content on workforce training and related issues. Find and access current and archived items in our database. 

Walmart Joins Lumina Foundation in National Effort to Build Talent Marketplace of the Future

Data
Education
Workforce Training
December 13, 2018
Center for Education and Workforce
T3Network, Phase Two Partners
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation today announced new support from Lumina Foundation and Walmart to begin the next phase of the T3 Innovation Network. With their support, the U.S. Chamber Foundation will leverage emerging technologies to implement a series of projects that will modernize the U.S. talent marketplace and align learner, education, and workforce data to create seamless transitions from education to career pathways for all workers in the United States.

New Models for Business Engagement Game Changers for Small Business

Jason A. Tyszko
Economic Empowerment
Economic Growth
Workforce Training
December 4, 2018
Center for Education and Workforce
Q4 Small Business Index
Addressing our country’s workforce development challenges is no longer a big business problem. In fact, small businesses may yet deliver the most innovative and important solutions for creating real pathways to opportunity in today’s economy.

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
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

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.

How to Shrink the Skills and People Gaps

Sean Hackbarth
Competitiveness
Economic Growth
Education
Workforce Training
November 1, 2018
Center for Education and Workforce
Talent Forward 2018 - Above the Fold
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.”

T3 Network Phase 1 Report

Center for Education and Workforce
October 29, 2018
T3 Innovation Network Phase One Final Report
This report summarizes and brings to a close phase one of the T3 Network. The report is divided into two parts. Part I focuses on the T3 Network’s vision, guiding principles, and profiles the work groups. Part II highlights the T3 Network’s recommendations, organized as a list of pilot projects that together provide the foundation for an open, distributed, public-private data infrastructure that supports access and opportunity for the American student and worker. The report concludes with next steps and acknowledgements.
Data
Education
Innovation
Workforce Training

Why the Apprenticeship Model is Succeeding in Corporate America

Robert Kress, Accenture
Elizabeth Ferruelo, Director of Foundation Relations, i.c.stars
Education
Postsecondary Education
Workforce Training
October 25, 2018
Center for Education and Workforce
Blog Image - Apprenticeships
Many large organizations have this same challenge. And yet, there is a degree gap - “a discrepancy between the demand for a college degree in job postings and the employees who are currently in that job who have a college degree.” In an analysis of more than 26 million job postings, the degree gap was found to be significant, according to a study by Accenture, Harvard Business School, and Grads of Life. The study attributes degree inflation to two key factors: the fast-changing nature of many middle-skills jobs and employers’ misperceptions of the economics of investing in quality talent at the non-graduate level.

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