Skills News from Around the World
Each week we post skills training news and manufacturing sector talent news from around the world.

Why the Hospitality "Skills Gap" Has Become a "Skills Chasm" Due to COVID-19

Why skills - not degrees - will shape the future of work

Fixing The World’s Most Inefficient Market

Research: How Workers Shift from One Industry to Another

We Have an Unemployment Crisis. Now What?

IWU launches online workforce training program

Gov. Holcomb Launches $50 Million Initiative To Help Hoosiers Economically Recover

New COVID-19 Antibody Testing and Job Training Program Announced

New COVID-19 Antibody Testing And Job Training Program Announced

Connecticut launches new initiative to help people get back to work

Manufacturing survey shows lower turnover rate than national average, lack of skilled applicants

Our Kitchen Table is Missing a Leg: Skills Training and 2020 Primaries

'They outperformed everyone': How training can transform an incarcerated workforce

Hiring Hoosiers: IN-MaC labs igniting student interest in manufacturing careers

It’s never been this hard for companies to find qualified workers

This state will pay workers up to $2,000 to upgrade their tech skills

Manufacturing groups launch effort to close 'skills gap' at U.S. plants

New skills — not degrees — are key to workforce transformation

Manufacturing's skills gap crisis at a critical juncture

Training and development in digital skills a priority for SMEs in 2020

Personalization — not stereotypes — should guide learning initiatives

Manufacturers to spend $26.2 billion on ‘upskilling’ in 2020 to attract and keep workers

Indiana McDonald's workers can learn on the job via 'crosswalk credits'

Work-based learning develops employability

Pitfalls To Avoid In Workplace Training

5 Manufacturing Trends to Watch in 2020

Census 2020 provides new opportunity to invest in skills

6 learning trends to watch in 2020

Half in U.S. Now Consider College Education Very Important

Employer commitment to skills training strengthens, says new report

Walmart Opens Training Academy for Supply Chain

Manufacturing Skills Training for Inmates

Viewpoint: Soft Skills Are a Difference Maker in the Construction Industry

How to Make Targeted Soft Skills Training With Microlearning

Should Skills Training Replace Higher Education?

BRIEF As AI infiltrates work, employers pay a premium for soft skills

How businesses can tackle skills gaps and an ageing workforce

When training for skills, don't overlook knowledge

Europe Is Hiring—But Its Workforce Isn’t Ready

The Manufacturing Mismatch

Navigating the Manufacturing Skills Gap

Screaming labor shortage forcing firms to get creative to fill record job openings

Developing the next generation of manufacturing talent will take fresh thinking

BRIEF Walmart opens training academy in distribution center

Goodwill®: Census Survey Demonstrates The Vital Importance Of Skills Training Programs

As Manufacturing Stumbles, It’s Time To Address The Skills Gap

What Adults Without Degrees Say About Pursuing Additional Education and Training

How Companies and Governments Can Advance Employee Education

How Skills Initiatives Can Benefit Manufacturers

States Can Foster Job Growth if Lifelong Learning is at Play

Skills training, apprenticeships target employees traditionally left out as labor market tightens

Facing a raft of retirements, BIW seeks 1,000 new hires

The Time is Now for Another ‘Great Generation’

Apprenticeships: A Bridge to Solve the Skills Gap

Businesses Need to Embrace the New Science of Learning

Non-Degree Certificates And Certifications: Fast, Cheap And Effective

A new Colorado report tries to show what higher education is worth. The value is clearer for some degrees than others.

You've made a bad hire — what happens now?

3 ways colleges can prepare the workforce for automation

National Association of Manufacturers pledges to train 1M workers in 5 years

Small manufacturing businesses drive US economy

Closing The Manufacturing Skills Gap

The way Americans think about blue-collar manufacturing work is a bigger threat than robots

Americans must embrace lifelong learning and training to thrive in the future of work

This Is the Most In-Demand Skill of the Future

Amazon to offer job skill training to 100,000 US workers

Alternative Pathways Programs Could Fill Training Gap for Low-income Adults

Poor Training, Lack of Skills Leave Older Workers Behind: Study

Strike While the Millennial Iron Is Hot

Why Manufacturers Should Embrace Digitalization

'Upskilling' Your Workforce? Start by Measuring the Skills They Have Now

Four Ways to Close the Skills Gap in the Age of Automation

The high school diploma isn’t what it used to be

Skills training for now and for the future

Desperate need for manufacturing workers: Local company offers to pay for training

What Divides America? Job Skills, Says IBM CEO

Why Continuing Education Programs Are Poised to Become Hubs of Innovation

In Brevard County, the modern manufacturing sector is thriving (and hiring).

Doing something about workforce development

In the future, will we acquire skills, not degrees?

Positioning Higher Education Institutions to Serve the Corporate Market

What’s Really Behind Employers’ Interest in Education?

Trained in the Trades

Closing the Skills Gap

Profits boom as workforce crisis looms, survey finds

Workforce solutions, opportunities abound

Trends with benefits: Employment expert says strong job market prompts shift in training, retention

What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

Can training candidates close the skills gap?

The dangers of skills-gap skepticism

Employers want to see these attributes on student's resumes

Core Manufacturing Skills Certificate Program... receives grant support

Artificial Intelligence and Automation — the U.S. Manufacturing Challenge

How Manufacturers are Tackling the Skills Gap

If Your Employees Aren't Learning, Your Company Could Fall Behind

Ditch Witch training academy offers paid learning, guaranteed employment

The Triple College Crisis: Crisis #3. Too Few Good Jobs

CEOs tell Trump they are hiring more Americans without college degrees

How Does a College Grad End Up at a For-Profit Technical School? It’s All About the Job Market — and the Value of a Bachelor’s Degree

More Job Openings Than Ever, But Who Is Prepared To Fill Them?

'Middle skills' needed for jobs

Companies Seek to Fill Skills Gap by Retraining Their Own Workers

Addressing the employment challenge: The use of postsecondary noncredit training in skills development

Manufacturers Are Hiring Again; What Skills Are They Looking For?

Who Wants to Work in Manufacturing?

Detroit Sees Training Opportunity Before Expected Job Boom

Canyon ISD's Manufacturing Academy joint effort between industry & education

New Funding to Support Development of Mobile Game to Help Pennsylvanians Land Manufacturing Jobs

Center Line educators work to bridge gap with business

The bridge between jobs and the labor skills gap is education

How Apprenticeships Bridge the Skills Gap

Episode 285: Training Employees So They Don’t Leave For A Few Dollars More Somewhere Else

What 100 job offers for 28 recent Butler County high school graduates tells us about the economy

Skills Gap Crisis Is Great Threat to US Economy, Congressman Says

Millennials still not well informed about manufacturing

What industry wants: Soft skills, ongoing training important in workplace

ARPM launches online training program

Survey: People can't find the jobs they want because they lack the skills they need

How to obtain the skills needed in a smart factory

Job Vacancies Becoming Manufacturing ‘Crisis’

How to Build a Strong Talent Pipeline in Manufacturing

Industry 4.0 Holds The Key To Closing The Manufacturing Industry's Skills Gap

Exploring the Manufacturing Skills Gap: Menace or Myth?

How best to target manufacturing skills gap shortage?

Deloitte-TMI Study Notes Widening Manufacturing Skills Gap

Adult Education Comes of Age

To assert relevance, liberal-arts colleges lean into skills training, business partnerships

Training Camp: Help Employees Develop Skills for the Factory Floor

Management Tip: Soft Skills Can Be Hard To Find

Nondegree Credentials, Work-Based Learning, and the American Working Class (PDF)

How to train 2 million Americans for high-skilled jobs for free

Earn-while-you-learn training provided by Wisconsin

U.S. manufacturers struggling to find workers turning to high schools

Manufacturers say their worker shortage is getting worse. Here’s why

2018 skills gap in manufacturing study

Titan Gilroy Says This Skilled Trade Can Fix A Lot Of Our Problems

Here’s what a manufacturing skills gap of more than 2 million people will look like

The future of work won't be about college degrees, it will be about job skills

LinkedIN 2018 Workplace Learning Report

Bridging the skills gap between employers and applicants focus of Work Ready Forsyth initiative

#RethinkSchool: Creating Pathways and Closing the Skills Gap

Georgia Labor Commissioner: Job seekers need training in basic skills

Students learn about manufacturing jobs

Manufacturers talk solutions to hiring problems

New York City high schools should expand vocational education

Skills training: businesses also need an education shake-up

Short on skilled workers, employers offer training, chance to grow: Pathways to Prosperity

New $3 million program could help close skills gap in advanced manufacturing

Open house to highlight Manufacturing Day

Ford plant manager Debbie Manzano wants more women in manufacturing

How Advanced Manufacturing Is Driving The U.S. Economy [Infographic]

WorkinCT #CTConfident: Push for new talent in advanced manufacturing

WMU Opens Advanced Manufacturing Partnership Lab

Grand Rapids New Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory Will Train Next Generation

What skills are being sought by Dayton businesses

Teaching students to manage emotions provides them with the skills to become future workplace leaders

Jobs expert: ‘This is going to be an epidemic’

Are Hard Skills Or Soft Skills More Important To Be An Effective Leader?

Lack of digital skills will cause 7 million to be 'left behind' in next decade

99pc of employers report low literacy and numeracy skills, study finds
