Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Middle Skills (Questions for Helen (How is the HDCI Atlanta work taking…
Middle Skills
Questions for Helen
-
What problems associated with skills gap resonates with employers: output, turnover, increased overtime, growth and competition
-
Why are employers coming to the table? What's motivating them? Is this a nice to have or a must have? What trends are you seeing in the employer participation
How much of HDCI Atlanta's actvities focused on middle skill s job, which part of the problem is HDCI working on?
What are you seeing as the main drivers of the middle skills gap? How has your experience vary with the conventional wisdom (can't find talent, unwilling to invest, talent not ready, etc...
-
-
-
Drivers of issues :<3:
-
-
-
-
shift to flatter, team-based structures
reduced efficacy for OJT
the kinds of skills needed by employers changed from incremental new ones that can easily be learned on the job to those that require advanced technical and behavioral skills (in problem solving, communication, teamwork, and leadership) that existing production and employment paradigms lacked.
-
Need
Nearly 44% of the executives indicated that it was difficult to fill jobs because candidates lacked soft skills like communication and critical thinking.
17 Employers cited the absence of technical skills (48%) and of workplace or soft skills (33%) as the most significant barriers to fulfilling their needs.18
HBS alumni from middle-sized companies20 found the task particularly challenging, with 46% reporting that sourcing appropriately skilled talent was either very difficult or somewhat difficult.Are there existing consortiums that could fund such efforts*
Currently in the U.S. about 69 million people work in middle-skills jobs, representing roughly 48% of the labor force. - March 2012 :<3:
labor market experts to estimate that as many as 25 million, or 47%, of all new job openings from 2010 to 2020 will fall into the middle-skills range.- March 2012 :<3:
Additionally, 73 percent of employers expect to see their need for middle-skills jobs grow in the next two to three years.4 - Feb 2014
Solutions
-
-
-
upskilling :<3:
accenture survey 38% ypically need to hire people with more education than the position requires to get the talent we need
-
Issues
-
-
-
underemployment
Accenture 2014 College Graduate Employment Survey revealed this exact frustration: Nearly half (46 percent) of the 2012/2013 college grads we surveyed said they were underemployed; that represented a 5 percent increase from the previous year’s survey.
-
-
-
-
-
cost of middle skill gap
employers :<3:
49% of the respondents to Manpower Group’s Talent Shortage Survey in 2013 indicated that talent shortages were undermining their ability to serve
customers.
-
-
-
-
-
Standard Motor Products, a manufacturing rm based in New York, found that hiring the wrong employee costs the rm two to three times the employee’s annual salary
-
-
-
-
-
Future Work
check update publications from Burning glass, accenture, HBS Center for Competitiveness
-
-
-
-
Employer actions
-
Many firms fear that if they invest in training on their own, competitors that don’t make similar investments will lure away their workers.
-
-
-
Public Sector
weakness in federal support for job training since 1995. funding on a per capita basis has sharply declined.
middle-skills jobs—those that require more education and training than a high school diploma but less than a four-year college degree
-
Would employers fund development for the their existing employees
- Walmart, UPS, Fedex, Chick Fil La , McDonalds, etc
Target employers who are already working with technical colleges and community colleges - this is year up for college dropouts vs. high school drop outs
-