First published by SHRM, November 7, 2017. A poor understanding of how job skills transfer among occupations—especially from occupations in decline to in-demand fields—is one of the biggest reasons for the nation’s skills gap. But employers and job seekers can...
First published by Dusty Weis, Association of Equipment Manufacturers At the urging of local officials, contractors on the $524 million project have approached hiring challenges with bold, unconventional workforce development strategies that help people get needed job training....
First published by Jim Kinney at MASSLive.com, October 25, 2017. Baystate Health has 12,000 employees and makes about 1,400 new hires a year of folks from outside its system, said President and CEO Mark Keroack. And as the city’s largest employer,...
First published by SHRM, October 12, 2017. A new study highlights how several states are helping students choose what to study depending on the skills local employers say they need. The report from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW), a...
More and more people are trying to better understand the future of work and why the U.S. has more open jobs – more than 6 million – than at any time in our history. In September, former VP Joe Biden hosted an event Choosing a Future of Quality...
First published by I-95 Business, October, 2017. Cybersecurity is one of this century’s most urgent global imperatives. Financial damages are measured in the trillions of dollars and are a result of the proliferation of digital devices into every aspect of our daily lives in pursuit...
Why is it that each day we see a story about a company that can’t find workers, communities without jobs, and graduates not finding work? It’s not that we don’t have jobs. We have 6.2 million unfilled jobs in the U.S., more than at any time in our history. It’s not that we...
First published by Baltimore Business Journal, August 22, 2017. The Cybersecurity Association of Maryland Inc. is launching a new online jobs platform in partnership with Germantown job-seeking firm SkillSmart. Maryland Cyber Jobs was built to address the shortage of qualified...
The Cybersecurity Association of Maryland, Inc. (CAMI) announced today the launch of a state-of-the-art online jobs platform in partnership with Maryland-based firm SkillSmart. Maryland Cyber Jobs (MCJ) addresses the chronic shortage across all industry sectors in finding qualified...
Over the past weeks, we have seen Made in America Week, Infrastructure Week, and the Democrats’ Deal for the American Worker. There seems to be agreement that many Americans are trapped in jobs that don’t pay desirable wages while other, higher-earning...
SkillSmart has been selected as a finalist in the 2017 MIT Inclusive Innovation Challenge, sponsored by MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy, which is awarding over $1 million to tech-driven organizations that are reinventing the future of work. This year’s award...
First published by Phoenix Business Journal, July 31, 2017. Washington, D.C.-based Village Capital brought 12 education startups from across the country to Phoenix to meet local companies, mentors and city and business leaders for possible partnerships. The four-day workshop was held...