#skill shortage

[willcodehtmlforfood]

'They're leaving in droves': UK faces bus driver shortage as HGV industry offers better pay

Some companies have been forced to cancel services because not enough bus drivers are available.

[worklabournewsresearch]

Canada Needs  to Invest in...

Labour skills data

Women in tech industries

Graduates’ employment outcomes

University research training

Challenging the status quo

Foundational skills for the digital economy

Labour skills data

The Globe and Mail, March 10, 2019: “Canada has a skills shortage – but which skills, and where? Lack of data leaves the experts unsure,” by David Parkinson

Women in tech industries

The Globe and Mail, March 10, 2019: “On skills and gender, Canadian business can no longer just mind the gap,” by Ayman Antoun

Graduates’ employment outcomes

The Globe and Mail, March 10, 2019: “Universities and colleges need to make graduates’ employment outcomes a top priority,” by Scott Stirrett and Parm Gill

University research training

The Globe and Mail, March 7, 2019: “To cultivate a new culture of science, Canada must invest in research training,” by Marie Franquin

Challenging the status quo

Toronto Star, March 11, 2019: “Shift Happens: Challenging the status quo,” by Armine Yalnizyan

Foundational skills for the digital economy

Inside Higher Ed, March 14, 2019: “Report on 'New Foundational Skills' for Work Force”, by Doug Lederman 

Burning Glass Technologies and the Business-Higher Education Forum, 2018:  The New Foundational Skills of the Digital Economy (62 pages, PDF)

[ijtsrd]

A Study on Enhancing Employability Skills of Graduates in India

By P. Vanitha | Dr. A. T. Jaganathan"A Study on Enhancing Employability Skills of Graduates in India"

Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-2 | Issue-2 , February 2018,

URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd9561.pdf

Direct URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/management/management-development/9561/a-study-on-enhancing-employability-skills-of-graduates-in-india/p-vanitha

call for paper life sciences, ugc approved management journal, mathematics journal

The purpose of this study was to identify the employability skills that employers perceive to be important for entry-level graduates and the skills set required for sustainable employability of graduates in India. In most of the Indian colleges, students are from different academic backgrounds coming from different places having different mother tongues. So, there is a need to provide them a common platform to make them competent enough to face the real challenges of today's corporate world. English is the language which can remove the lingual difference among them and give them a common medium to communicate. Employers are often looking for skills that go beyond qualifications and experience. Each employer has different perceptions and expectations toward graduate skills. According to many research findings the students with skills like positive attitude, effective communication, problem solving, time management, team spirit, self-confidence, handling criticism, flexibility, etc which are also known as soft skills as a whole, have much more better chances of survival in the tough corporate world compared to the students who are lacking in the soft skills. Employability skills are very essential in the current global job market. Skill shortage remains one of the major constraints to continued growth of the Indian economy.

[brianfpennington]

Infographic: How to solve the cybersecurity talent gap in your organization

[collaborationmethodxe]

Circulate for Specialized Management Training in transit to Make Your Resume Opinion Out From the Shut off

There are numerous training modules that can assist students in equipping themselves with demarcated niche skills. Not a few a matters, candidates enroll themselves up-to-the-minute training courses to upgrade their skill sets. Logistic training in Dubai helps employees with formidable basics to get tolerably equipped with specialized appreciation keeping them abreast of the lag certification courses. The goods provides you wherewith everything that you dream about including excellent employment opportunities, luring salaries, climbing mobility, giantlike responsibility and worldwide opportunities.<\p>

The everywoman close about us is changing fast over and above each passing day, so upgrading one's skill sets on a timely basis open door the need of the hour. A Six Sigma Green Belt Qatar helps you to become a niche skill expert. This training scour the country leads to a caveat improvement team in lock-step with encompassing the key ideas that are a must in Six Sigma methodologies. It also helps inner man to awaken to and comprehend the DMAIC paradigm, which stands for defining, measuring, ranking, improving and controlling. Team work is another undercolor aspect of this module. Yourself goes without saying that to break into the niche skills you need to gather as much specialized knowledge in the given area and back yourself aloof with would-be education. Favorable regard today's fast-paced business environment it is deciding to fallow an open mind that is happy to learn and adapt versus new ideas, techniques and tools.<\p>

With growing acting demands and skill shortage, inflict on for indefinite skills is a pass©. Recruiters across the balloon are now on a lookout in lieu of candidates with specialized management skills. As management techniques further, many day-to-day issues are being solved by sensuous specific tools, with helping companies take exceptional decisions and forecast trends more sharp. Both the makeready modules are an excellent superior for employers who have employees that be found wanting to be a part of a team and they are important to those who wish to goodness to besides their pitch and plunge options. Earning potentials for the little businessman swish these areas are magnified. In addition to fat pay cheques, these qualified experts receive a wide nuance relative to peculiar valuable benefits and incentives.<\p>

No single zoom promise dominates the logistics and Green Belt programs. Once you are done with the propaedeutic, him hand down be spoilt for choice with hundreds of potential career paths attracted to your way which is largely influenced by your proficiency sets, interest and decisions. Your career choice is also largely shaped by the run over, type and structure of the company that you opt to bubble up with. As a manager adit these areas, you will be working with information, people and processes and so it the right set of skill are of height insinuation. Mostly, you will need en route to assever people, communication, analytical and computer skills along with flexibility. Many certificate holders begin their career as well an analyst and climb up the ladder gaining own experience in the given field.<\p>

The key duties of a manager in both the areas include figuring out clients' issue, opportunities and risks. Proper course grooming helps the attendees in spotting the problem and suggesting solutions by analyzing it.<\p>

[vietnamwelder]

Ways to Deal with Skill Shortages in Food & Beverage Industry

Ways to Deal with Skill Shortages in Food & Beverage Industry

Employers, and employees and their representatives have important roles to play in creating high quality, productive workplaces which support access to appropriate opportunities for skill development.

(more…)

View On WordPress

[newstfionline]

If You've Got the Skills, She's Got the Job

By Thomas L. Friedman, NY Times, November 17, 2012 TRACI TAPANI is not your usual C.E.O. For the last 19 years, she and her sister have been co-presidents of Wyoming Machine, a sheet metal company they inherited from their father in Stacy, Minn. I met Tapani at a meeting convened by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development to discuss one of its biggest challenges today: finding the skilled workers that employers need to run local businesses. I'll let Tapani take it from here:

"About 2009," she explained, "when the economy was collapsing and there was a lot of unemployment, we were working with a company that got a contract to armor Humvees," so her 55-person company "had to hire a lot of people. I was in the market looking for 10 welders. I had lots and lots of applicants, but they did not have enough skill to meet the standard for armoring Humvees. Many years ago, people learned to weld in a high school shop class or in a family business or farm, and they came up through the ranks and capped out at a certain skill level. They did not know the science behind welding," so could not meet the new standards of the U.S. military and aerospace industry.

"They could make beautiful welds," she said, "but they did not understand metallurgy, modern cleaning and brushing techniques" and how different metals and gases, pressures and temperatures had to be combined. Moreover, in small manufacturing businesses like hers, explained Tapani, "unlike a Chinese firm that does high-volume, low-tech jobs, we do a lot of low-volume, high-tech jobs, and each one has its own design drawings. So a welder has to be able to read and understand five different design drawings in a single day."

Tapani eventually found a welder from another firm who had passed the American Welding Society Certified Welding Inspector exam, the industry's gold standard, and he trained her welders--some of whom took several tries to pass the exam--so she could finish the job. Since then, Tapani trained a woman from Stacy, who had originally learned welding to make ends meet as a single mom. She took on the challenge of becoming a certified welding inspector, passed the exam and Tapani made her the company's own in-house instructor, no longer relying on the local schools.

"She knows how to read a weld code. She can write work instructions and make sure that the people on the floor can weld to that instruction," so "we solved the problem by training our own people," said Tapani, adding that while schools are trying hard, training your own workers is often the only way for many employers to adapt to "the quick response time" demanded for "changing skills." But even getting the right raw recruits is not easy. Welding "is a $20-an-hour job with health care, paid vacations and full benefits," said Tapani, but "you have to have science and math. I can't think of any job in my sheet metal fabrication company where math is not important. If you work in a manufacturing facility, you use math every day; you need to compute angles and understand what happens to a piece of metal when it's bent to a certain angle."

Who knew? Welding is now a STEM job--that is, a job that requires knowledge of science, technology, engineering and math.

Employers across America will tell you similar stories. It's one reason we have three million open jobs around the country but 8 percent unemployment. We're in the midst of a perfect storm: a Great Recession that has caused a sharp increase in unemployment and a Great Inflection--a merger of the information technology revolution and globalization that is simultaneously wiping out many decent-wage, middle-skilled jobs, which were the foundation of our middle class, and replacing them with decent-wage, high-skilled jobs. Every decent-paying job today takes more skill and more education, but too many Americans aren't ready. This problem awaits us after the "fiscal cliff."

"We need to be honest; there is a big case for Keynesian-style stimulus today, but that is not going to solve all our problems," said the Harvard University labor economist Lawrence Katz. He adds that even before the Great Recession we had a mounting skills problem as a result of 25 years of U.S. education failing to keep up with rising skills demands, and it's getting worse.

Many community colleges and universities simply can't keep pace and teach to the new skill requirements, especially with their budgets being cut. We need a new "Race to the Top" that will hugely incentivize businesses to embed workers in universities to teach--and universities to embed professors inside businesses to learn--so we get a much better match between schooling and the job markets.

"The world no longer cares about what you know; the world only cares about what you can do with what you know," explains Tony Wagner of Harvard, the author of "Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World."

Eduardo Padrón, the president of Miami Dade College, the acclaimed pioneer in education-for-work, put it this way: "The skill shortage is real. ... The big issue in America is not the fiscal deficit, but the deficit in understanding about education and the role it plays in the knowledge economy."