Skills Gap

MBA Curriculum and the Looming Social Media Gap

Michael Kempner | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Social Media, Social Business, Skills Gap, Mba, Business School, Prsa, College Curriculum, MBA Degrees, Business News
Michael Kempner

As I write this, another class of MBA graduates is preparing to walk out of the classroom and into the business world. But will they have the skills they need to successfully lead a business in a digital age?

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Closing the Skills Gap

Jerry Jasinowski | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Unemployment, Skills Gap, Unemployment Rate, Business News
Jerry Jasinowski

Too many of our unemployed lack the requisite skills to fill jobs that need filling, especially in manufacturing.

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Colleges Should Play a Central Role in the Jobs Agenda

Jeff Selingo | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: College Programs, Jobs Debate, Unemployment, Colleges and Umemployment, Jobs, Jobs Plan, Colleges, Skills Gap, Recent College Grads Unemployment, Unemployed Skills Gap, College News
Jeff Selingo

In the short term, colleges could create programs to help close the "skills gap" that right now keeps some three million jobs from being filled, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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America's Job Surplus and the College Completion Crisis

John Bridgeland | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jobs, Small Business, College Completion Rates, Unemployment, Business, Postsecondary Education, Skills-Gap, College News
John Bridgeland

How can it be that today, 53 percent of employers -- and 67 percent of small business employers that create most new jobs -- find it difficult to find qualified workers?

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Do We Hold the Solution to the Recession in Our Hands?

Jessica DuLong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Skills Gap, Skills, Recession, Politics News
Jessica DuLong

To achieve a better-balanced economy, not to mention society, we need to find ways to foster mutual respect between people who do hands-on and hands-off work.

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