Skills Shortages
Who’s to Blame for Job Skill Shortages: Employers, Workers, or Schools?
Who’s to blame for the shortage of skilled workers? Not unlike politics, it depends who you ask. Employers blame schools. Schools blame government. Workers blame employers. The Institute for…
Why Robots are Putting Employees Out of Work … and Creating Jobs
Automation and outsourcing have been blamed for putting a lot of people out of work. Ironically innovation is what produces wealth and creates jobs. Technological innovation is linked to three…
Why Employers Can’t Take Chances on Low Skill Employees
You’ve read it before. The future of work is vastly different than the past. And the skills required to perform the jobs of the future are night-and-day…
Re-work of Work Makes Average Worker Obsolete
The concept of work is getting re-worked. All this change establishes a new norm. The skills required to get and keep a job are changing dynamically and continuously. Individuals…
What Jobs Should the U.S. Be Creating?
The news about jobs is getting better. The unemployment rate dipped for the fifth straight month to 8.3 percent. The number of jobs being created has been rising at…
9 of the Best Workforce Predictions for 2012
Having reviewed nearly two dozen different articles predicting what employers can expect to face in 2012, I’ve come up with nine of the best workforce predictions for 2012…
Why Companies Will Fail To Find Qualified Employees in 2012
Whether you believe there is a shortage of qualified candidates or an unwillingness of companies to pay the salaries skilled workers demand will be argued well into 2012 and beyond…
Looming Doctor Shortage Just TIp of Iceberg?
Stories about the shortage of skilled workers are so frequent these days that many people just take the news with a grain of salt. But an article like the one…
Why Complexity Drives Managers Crazy
Business life has always featured the unpredictable, the surprising, and the unexpected. What’s changed is that the level of complexity that people have to cope with has simply become…
10 Stats and Facts – Job Skill Mismatch
In the coming years, not enough American workers will have the right skills to fill the jobs that will be available. There are too many workers with a high school…