Content tagged with “Job Training”

In Search of the Skilled Worker: The Challenge of Finding, Training and Placing Workers in Skilled Trades Positions

For a number of years, employers have expressed concerns about the Skills Gap – the perceived lack of qualified employees to fill the positions that employers have available. Employers in the...
Tags: Skills Training, Community Colleges, Skills gap, Workforce Development, employment, Job Training

Manufacturing and the Job Market

The US energy renaissance and related manufacturing job boom could be a solution for millions of unemployed Americans, according to a panel of experts gathered at the Aspen Institute yesterday. One...
Tags: Jobs, Job Training, Manufacturing and Society in the 21st Century

Partnerships in Practice Roundtable: In Search of the Skilled Worker: The Challenge of Finding, Training and Placing Workers in Skilled Trades Positions

The Manufacturing Institute claims that there are over half a million jobs in the manufacturing sector that go unfilled because employers cannot find workers with the skills needed to do these jobs...
Tags: Skills gap; community colleges, Workforce Development, Job Training

Policy Priorities for Manufacturing: Summary Findings of 2012 Aspen Seminar

Tags: Manufacturing, Policy, Exports, Taxation, Job Training, Workforce, Skills Training

What to do about workers' skills (Chicago Tribune)

Tags: Education, Job Training, Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence

Economic Opportunities Program

The Economic Opportunities Program (EOP) advances workforce training, community college, microenterprise and asset building strategies for lower income Americans.
Tags: Economic Development, Poverty, Economics, Workforce Development, Jobs, Community College, Courses to Employment, Microenterprise, Job Training, FIELD