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?
Bridging the skills gap and finding employees
Lack of digital skills will cause 7 million to be 'left behind' in next decade
Only 20% of Employees Have Necessary Skills for Current And Future Career
99pc of employers report low literacy and numeracy skills, study finds
Apprenticeship program working to improve the future of Oregon’s workforce
How Industry 4.0 Helps Manufacturers Solve Workforce Challenges
Millennials and Manufacturing: Eight Tips to Attract and Train a 21st Century Workforce
Manufacturing is firing on all cylinders, but a lack of skilled workers is squeezing the sector
The Relevance of Soft Skills in the era of AI, ML, and Robots
Creating an effective workforce system for the new economy
What’s Really Behind Employers’ Interest in Education?
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