Yearly Archives: 2012

Succession Planning Crisis – An Elephant in the Management Suite

There is an elephant in the management suite – an impending talent pipeline crisis.   The crisis doesn’t stop at the top.  There is also a serious shortage of skilled workers…

Survey Says Students Find Schoolwork Too Easy

How can the United States continue to compete in a global economy if the entering workforce is made up of high school graduates who lack the skills they need, and…

Growing Skills Gap Poses Opportunity for Skilled Freelancers

To prepare our students to move into these new roles, schools will need to place an emphasis on creativity, independent thinking, self-directed work, and openness to experimentation and risk…

Contingent Workforce Will Double by 2020 – Are Your Prepared?

Until the 1980s, people were typically hired with the idea that they would stay with the same company until they retired. Most American company workforces were composed almost exclusively of…

Mismatch Between Education Levels and Jobs Tied to Long-Term Unemployment

Wow! Just yesterday I wrote about widespread diversity of skilled worker shortages from place to place.  And just this morning I received word of a new study released today tying…

Skilled Worker Shortages Reach Widespread but Not Evenly Distributed

If the survey of economists in a recent Associated Press Economy Survey is correct, the job market will still be unhealthy seven years (2016) after the Great Recession officially ended…

Creating Great Places to Work Engages Younger Workers

Employers all over the world have discovered that creating unusual workspaces for the younger generations (Gen X and Millennials) has a very positive effect on engagement and retention. In Silicon…

A Troubling Tale of Two Job Markets: High Unemployment & Shortages of Workers

Within a 24 hour period of the Bureau of Labor Statistics releasing its latest unemployment data, I received nine articles that might make most people scratch their heads and say…