Skills Shortages
A Shortage of ICD-10 Workers Threatens HealthCare Bottom Lines
While changes are transforming almost every industry, perhaps no individual profession will be impacted with the next few years as much as healthcare. And within that industry, no single job…
What is Happening to Blue Collar Careers?
The United States has become a nation of “non-tinkerers,” a survey shows, and it may harming the way we live and work according to manufacturers. In a…
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…
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…
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…
Low Literacy and High School Dropouts Fuel Skilled Worker Shortages
A day doesn’t go by that I don’t read a blog, LinkedIn discussion, or business article challenging the existence of a skilled worker shortage. A few weeks ago…
Companies Dream about Filling Cloud Computing Jobs
Cloud computing jobs increased by 9 2 percent in February 2012 in comparison to numbers from February 2011. And it was up 400 percent from the same time in 2010…