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| 07.01.2025 | Job Market Woes: A Tough Road Ahead for Job Seekers | The job market is a battlefield. For many, it feels like a never-ending struggle. Recent reports paint a grim picture. Job seekers are facing longer waits and tougher competition. The average time to find a job has stretched to six months. ... |
| 07.01.2025 | The Unforgiving Landscape of American Politics and Employment | In the heart of American politics, a storm brews. The January 6 insurrection looms large, casting shadows over the future of justice and accountability. More than 1,250 individuals have faced the consequences of that fateful day. Over 650 o... |
| 06.01.2025 | 'Really Hard to Find a Job': 1.7 Million Job Seekers Have Been Looking for Work for at Least 6 Months It now takes an average of around six months to find a job, one month longer than it did it 2023. | Job hunters are having a tough time reentering the workforce.
According to a Sunday report from the Wall Street Journal, it now takes job seekers an average of six months to find employment, a month more than in years past.
The number of pe... |
| 11.05.2024 | Gen Z's wobbly path to the career ladder | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
More than one third of 18 to 24 year olds reported no income through wages or a salary in 2022, according to a recent report out of the St. Louis Fed. That figure is up from about 22% in 1990.
Why it ... |
| 30.06.2023 | Court Strikes Down Student Debt Forgiveness: Will Higher Ed Accept Responsibility? | Without taxpayers to bail them out, it's time higher ed leaders accept responsibility for this ... [+] crisis.Pixabay |
| 10.01.2023 | 3 Ways Higher Education Can Flip the Script on Value | As institutions we must do better to ensure education is a pathway to opportunity that can be ... [+] traveled by every individual.Unsplash |
| 15.11.2022 | How Workers Are Advancing To Better Jobs Today | In Nomadland, the nomadic older adults take seasonal entry level jobs at Amazon, and are not looking ... [+] to advance. But as a major new study demonstrates, most entry level workers at Amazon and other large American companies seek to mo... |
| 27.06.2022 | The Strategic Relevance of Cybersecurity Skills | Evidence suggests there is a global cybersecurity skills shortage affecting businesses and governments alike, which means that organizations are struggling to fill their cybersecurity vacancies. For example, the United Kingdom would need to... |
| 18.05.2022 | Infosec Institute Unveils New Role-Guided Cybersecurity Training Roadmaps to Skill-Up Teams and Close Global Skills Gap Faster | We are finding that retention rates are going up in our cybersecurity roles because people feel like they’re being listened to. They’re provided opportunities that they may not have had before.
MADISON, Wis. (PRWEB) May 18, 2022
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| 06.12.2021 | 2U : These 5 Skills Will Secure Your Place in the Future of Work | The future of work demands adaptable thinkers. Building a "career path" is no longer the singular accepted route to success in the workplace. Rather than following a linear progression of roles and titles, the strongest profession... |
| 01.12.2021 | Salesforce com : The Salesforce User Experience (UX) Designer Certification | Trailblazers can now add design skills to their portfolio, unlocking more career opportunities with the Salesforce User Experience (UX) Designer certification.
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Design skills are key
Skill up with the Designer role and... |
| 17.08.2021 | AT&T : and NOVA Launch IT Apprenticeship Program | Download release (PDF) AT&T and Northern Virginia Community College Launch IT Apprenticeship Program
Program Aims to Help Identify and Train Entry-Level Information Technology Talent and Expand AT&T Talent Pool in Support of Federal... |
| 11.08.2021 | South Floridians Receive Certification Training, Opening Paths for Tech Careers in Weeks, Not Years by New Horizons South Florida | PLANTATION, Fla. (PRWEB) August 11, 2021
Leading IT and business training solutions provider New Horizons South Florida has nine-and eighteen-week certification training courses that provide a rapid path for a career in IT. Once certified, ... |
| 23.04.2021 | Since colleges are failing to prepare students for tech jobs, it’s time to bring back apprenticeships | Sophie Ruddock Contributor
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| 04.02.2021 | The Crisis of Unemployed College Graduates | With the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines over the next few months, colleges may finally be able to consider a return to normalcy and the possibility of a safe opening in the fall. But despite the prospect of pandemic relief, there is another c... |
| 03.02.2021 | Human Capital Era Reality: The Skills Gap May Never Close | |
| 21.01.2021 | Colleges Weighed Down By Failed Program Launches | BOSTON, MA - MAY 8: Maddi Walker, a UMass Boston student, center, chants with others during a rally ... [+] after UMass Boston students walked out of classes in Boston on May 8, 2018 to protest the controversial acquisition of Mount Ida Col... |
| 19.01.2021 | Five Ways To Pivot Your Career In 2021 | CEO, Advantage Talent Inc, Award Winning Coach and Author/Futurist/WomenTech Global Ambassador/Future of Work Speaker/Data Scientist. |
| 14.01.2021 | Can Edtech Close the Talent and Workforce Gap in Cybersecurity? | How we protect our data is more important than ever. Attacks on high-value entities, including big businesses and federal government agencies, regularly make headlines. Schools are increasingly targeted as well. Just last month, the FBI, CI... |
| 27.12.2020 | Top 10 Tech Job Skills Predicted To Grow The Fastest In 2021 | Quantum Computing, Connected Technologies, Fintech and AI & Machine Learning expertise are predicted ... [+] to be the fastest-growing tech job skills in 2021 and beyond. getty |
| 21.12.2020 | Топ-10 «подрывных» ИТ-навыков с самой большой прибавкой к зарплате | Александра Кукуть 21 декабря 2020, 13:45 Топ-10 «подрывных» ИТ-навыков с самой большой прибавкой к зарплате
Dice Insights опубликовал десять так называемых «подрывных» технологических скиллов, которые не просто необходимы для функционирован... |
| 14.11.2020 | What Tulsa and other cities are doing to woo remote workers away from Silicon Valley | Image: Vasil Dimitrov, Getty Images/iStockPhoto
The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically increased the speed of our economy’s digitization which, in turn, has opened up opportunities outside highly concentrated and highly expensive tech center... |
| 29.10.2020 | Preparing Students for Emerging Careers in an Immersive World | Imagine teaching a history lesson in which students take a virtual field trip to the pyramids in Egypt and really experience the scale and detail—walk around and explore the site firsthand. What if the homework from this lesson had students... |
| 25.09.2020 | R.B.G. And The Future Of Higher Education | It’s been a week since we lost Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. A truly great American for her service on the Supreme Court, but equally for her groundbreaking advocacy in the decades prior, R.B.G. passed away on Erev Rosh Hashanah. Today she b... |
| 28.08.2020 | Want an IT job? Look outside the tech industry | Image: nesharm, Getty Images/iStockPhotos Must-read developer coverage
If you don’t know Python, it’s time to learn: Try this affordable training
What developers value most about their positions
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| 15.08.2020 | What Workforce Education Is Learning From the Pandemic | COVID-19 has transformed the education technology landscape in ways few could have anticipated. As schools and universities shuttered, working adults (those who remained employed) were asked, seemingly overnight, to adapt to a fully remote ... |
| 29.06.2020 | Forget ‘Jobs of the Future.’ Let’s Prepare People for Ones That Already Exist. | Anyone who has attended an education conference in the last ten years has likely heard the claim that 65 percent of today’s children will work in jobs that don’t even exist yet. The statistic, cited in a popular World Economic Forum report,... |
| 11.09.2019 | Burning Glass Technologies Receives Majority Investment from KKR | Burning Glass Technologies, a Boston, MA-based real-time labor market data source provider, received a majority investment from KKR.
KKR took the stake in the company from Providence Strategic Growth. The amount of the deal was not disclose... |
| 11.09.2019 | Providence Strategic Growth Sells Burning Glass Technologies | KKR Makes Major Investment in Leading Labor Market Analytics Provider Burning Glass |
| 05.09.2019 | The new marketplaces connecting school and work | Ryan Craig Contributor
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| 11.04.2019 | How tech boot camps can help solve the Houston innovation equation | It's been a little over a year since Houston lost out on the Amazon HQ2 bid and left the city pondering its approach to innovation. Houston is known for taking risks and bouncing back from adversity. We're known for growth and entrepreneurs... |
| 02.04.2019 | The future of work is a race between education and technology, and one’s not keeping up | Jack Hylands is the general manager of strategy and new product at RMIT Online. Source: Supplied.
In the context of the future of work, the question ‘will robots take our jobs?’ has become so ubiquitous it has spawned its own website — ente... |
| 25.06.2018 | Employer Credentials and Community Colleges: A Look Behind Google’s IT Support Certificate Program | Today’s red-hot job market demands new approaches to skill building, and community colleges find themselves on the front lines of this workforce-development challenge.
This is especially true when it comes to the growing share of jobs that ... |
| 07.05.2018 | ‘Talent’ Has Become the New Theme Uniting Education and Employment | The postsecondary education sector is on a collision course with the world of work.
Entrepreneurs and investors, government leaders, foundations and others are increasingly framing their goals around the concept of developing “talent”–or hu... |
| 16.01.2018 | Google and Coursera launch program to train entry-level IT support professionals | To address a shortage of IT talent in the U.S., Google announced today that it is launching a Coursera training program for IT support professionals. The Google IT Support Professional Certificate is designed to help students with no prior ... |
| 16.01.2018 | Google and Coursera launch program to train entry-level IT support professionals | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
To address a shortage of IT talent in the U.S., G... |
| 21.11.2017 | The language of jobs: Tech North’s digital jobs workshop | This article was originally posted on the Tech North website.
Last last month, we hosted a distinguished group of organisations who work in the field of skills. We wanted to understand how Tech North’s digital jobs pilot, which will help u... |
| 11.11.2017 | How to Choose the Right STEM Field | A huge emphasis is placed on going to college for a degree in one of the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields. This makes sense when you consider that STEM-related industries are constantly growing and boast an ave... |
| 13.06.2017 | Tech shows every industry how retraining is the new recruiting | Percia Safar Contributor
Percia Safar is a founder of WorkRamp.
Across the country, businesses in every industry are bracing themselves for a new wave of digital disruption. In the last year, Amazon announced it is creating supermarkets wit... |
| 05.03.2017 | Blame bad applicant tracking for the soft skills shortage at your company | Ryan Craig Contributor
Ryan Craig is managing director of University Ventures.
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| 14.12.2016 | Rethinking Credentials: The Power of Soft Skills | “Oh, The Places You’ll Go” is one of the most popular books by Dr. Seuss. Where do you hope education technology will go in 2017? What aspects of curriculum or community might get us there? (Dartmouth College)
In 2017, I hope (and insist!) ... |
| 28.04.2016 | Community Colleges Are New Gateways to Hot Cybersecurity Jobs | After 22 years of working in the hotel business and becoming a food and beverage manager, 42-year-old Marc McCarthy came to the realization that “very few opportunities for advancement existed,” he says. “Basically, I had to find something ... |
| 27.01.2016 | How Denver’s tech scene sees itself | While walking downtown, Healthify Software Engineer Shelby Switzer can overhear in-depth conversations about coding languages. In the evening, there are more events than Rockies Venture Club Executive Director Peter Adams knows what to do w... |
| 02.01.2016 | One Million Cybersecurity Job Openings In 2016 | Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg |
| 08.12.2015 | How CBA and UNSW plan to tackle the cyber skills shortage | The Commonwealth Bank and the University of NSW will join forces to close the gap between demand and supply of information security professionals through a new $1.6 million, five-year partnership.
Employers are increasingly struggling to fi... |
| 24.06.2015 | Providence Strategic Growth Invests in Burning Glass | Burning Glass Announces Major Investment from Providence Equity |
| 18.03.2015 | The new market for marketers | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
It used to be that if you wanted a job in marketi... |
| 09.03.2015 | What Will It Take to Close the Adult Digital Literacy Gap? | As new technology continues to emerge and evolve, the need for digital literacy in the American workforce becomes increasingly important. While employers’ expectations for technology proficiency were once reserved for professionals trained ... |
| - | 3 Great Recession grads who have earned 6 figures while working for Netflix and Bank of America share the steps they took to land a job during a downturn | Don't fear graduating into a recession. Chuck Savage/Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
More than 56 million people have filed for unemployment during the pandem... |
| - | Why you need these 5 skills on your resume today, says CEO who has read over 1,000 resumes this year | Emerging technology and pandemic-related disruptions are redefining the skills people need to succeed in their jobs.
In fact, according to the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report, which surveyed executives across 15 industries in 2... |
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