Can we end all the dog whistles about employment soon?
We’re not having realistic discussions around employment. Continue Reading
Skills Gap
The thing is … re-training programs don’t really work that well…
It’s often framed up as the “answer” to automation concerns, but the problem is that the programs don’t really have positive results. Continue Reading
The real reasons why the hiring manager-recruiter relationship often sucks
A dance as old as time… Continue Reading
If you’re not raising wages, can you really complain about a “skills gap?”
Paradoxical. Continue Reading
The dangerous skills gap myth
Solve a problem in your business? Naw. Let’s play the blame game, baby! Continue Reading
At work, certain skills can’t belong to just a few people
Here’s a tricky little thing about work and the future of work: we spent most of the past century building jobs around specialized skills — i.e. “He’s an IT guy!” or “She’s a designer!” — but, in the process, we created a… Continue Reading
If we want to solve the skills gap issue in the U.S., maybe we should turn to reciprocity (like parts of Europe)
“You don’t really know what you get,” she says. “If someone tells you they’re an electrician, they could have just exchanged light bulbs at an amusement park or they could have worked, maybe, at complex problems.” That quote is from… Continue Reading