Workforce development is a key factor in attracting new businesses and a critical component for encouraging existing firms to expand.
We have a massive shortage of engineers and one of the big glaring holes is that we have so few women doing engineering – it’s less than 10 per cent of the workforce.
If you focus on the single question of who knows best what students need in the workforce, it’s the people already in the workforce. Why not give industry a voice?
Alabama needs a comprehensive approach of collaboration that improves education from Pre-K to the workforce.
The women’s movement in the 1970s led more women into the workforce and got them closer to pay equality.
Clinton understands that in a competitive global economy we need the best-educated workforce in the world. She and I worked together on a proposal that will revolutionize higher education in America.
If you want a more productive economy, you need to invest in the skills of our workforce.
Gender discrimination has no place in our workforce.
Long-term economic growth depends mainly on nonmonetary factors such as population growth and workforce participation, the skills and aptitudes of our workforce, the tools at their disposal, and the pace of technological advance. Fiscal and regulatory policies can have important effects on these factors.
Australia’s economic future depends upon getting smarter. This means investing in the skills and knowledge of our workforce.
Members of the workforce must feel valued.
Apprenticeship is a proven model for developing a skilled workforce.
Women are the key to successful development and ongoing progress. In the workforce, their ingenuity, determination, and hard work help our economies thrive. In the government, they offer valuable perspective that can inform policy and remove barriers.
Jetsetting is now not the privilege of the elite so much as a veritiginous mundanity for a permanently dispossessed global workforce.
Independent contractors – a rapidly growing piece of the workforce – can often achieve the best quality of life. They can choose from where they work, whom they work for and for how long.
Because there still exists a significant pay gap, women tend to earn less than men over the course of their lifetimes. Compounding the problem, women tend to spend less time in the workforce than men.
It is incumbent on the American people to work hand in hand with our veterans and streamline their transition back into the workforce.
This idea that we can take hundreds of thousands, which we’ve done so far, and scale it to millions and move them into a new workforce, this is really critical because Salesforce is a platform.
Having today’s technology available to our students is crucial in preparing our future workforce.
We can no longer let the threat of an early frost send a chill of fear throughout a large portion of our workforce. Diversification is the only answer.
The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
I’m not pretending I can give advice to every single person or every single couple for every situation; I’m making the point that we are not going to get to equality in the workforce before we get to equality in the home. Not going to happen.
Military veterans have unique skills, experience, and qualifications that are invaluable to today’s workforce, including teamwork and leadership skills, the proven ability to learn quickly, a strong work ethic, dedication, and the ability to work under pressure.
We have about 360,000 employees in the VA health care system. It’s the largest health care system in the country. And the negative attention that’s been put on VA has hurt the morale of our workforce. And so what we’re trying to do is to get people to understand that we’re doing great work every day.
We know that veterans have valuable skills and experiences that are highly sought after in today’s workforce.
We know that to compete for the jobs of the 21st century and thrive in a global economy, we need a growing, skilled and educated workforce, particularly in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math. Americans with bachelor’s degrees have half the unemployment rate of those with a high school degree.
Productivity depends on many factors, including our workforce’s knowledge and skills and the quantity and quality of the capital, technology, and infrastructure that they have to work with.
In an ever-changing global marketplace, the one factor any state can count on is the skills of its upcoming and existing workforce.
Simple health interventions such as lead paint abatement and home visiting for pregnant women result in not only improved health for children but also higher rates of graduation, reduced crime, and a more robust workforce.
We need to be investing in manufacturing and small businesses. We need to be creating a workforce where Americans can compete in a global marketplace because they have the necessary skills. And we need fairness, and we need a sustainable, strong economy that’s durable for the future.
I’m a big fan of Purdue as an institution and in its role of educating the next-generation workforce.
I had accepted a position as a business analyst at Deloitte Consulting in New York. But before I went into that workforce, I decided to take a year off and went to India to do a social enterprise fellowship. It wasn’t the best fit, but that was where a TV show in Korea found me and invited me to first come perform.
The only agency of the federal government with a more demoralized workforce than Homeland Security is the Small Business Administration, a notorious turkey farm that should have been abolished years ago.
Our children and grandchildren are not going to have the same standard of living unless we educate that workforce.
It’s important for students to learn to make smart money management decisions before heading off to college or the entering the workforce.
It is proven that when women enter the workforce and find their full potential, their families are healthier, there are more opportunities for women, there’s an impact economically, psychologically, physically on our society at large.
More and more companies are updating their leave policies to reflect an understanding that being family-friendly is a smart investment in their workforce and America’s future.
There are certainly a lot of things that still need to change when it comes to women in the workforce.
Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further into the coffin of American manufacturing jobs.
The big experience of feeling like I jumped off into the deep end was that transition from college into the workforce. There were so many unwritten rules I didn’t understand.
In the 114th Congress, I had the privilege of serving on two of the most important Committees in the House of Representatives: the House Armed Services Committee and the Committee on Education and the Workforce.
If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
We must recognize housing policy is workforce policy.
I’m a liberally minded immigrant, leading a predominantly liberal workforce hailing from predominantly liberal cities and countries.
Tampa Electric has used apprenticeships since 1978 to make sure its workforce is the best in the business – trained, prepared, and productive. Apprenticeships improve its bottom line and give the company a competitive advantage.
Immigrants are not the main threat to the industrialized world’s workforce: robots are – or, rather, artificially intelligent robots are.
I recognized that if you’re going to have women in the workforce that sometimes you need to be more flexible.
We will continue to focus our efforts bringing more Virginians into the workforce and supporting families, businesses, and communities with the resources they need to build back stronger.
There is a huge business case for diversity. You will be making products for people you don’t understand, you don’t interact with. If you don’t have an inclusive, diverse workforce, it makes you myopic.
If you want a more productive economy, you need to invest in the skills of our workforce.
The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans paying payroll taxes to support each individual currently retired and collecting Social Security taxes.
Simply, diversity of workforce yields diversity of thinking.
After graduation, I discovered that I’d hit the limit of what I could learn from the women in my family. On top of that, in the workforce, all of the things that mattered in college suddenly weren’t enough.
As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily.
We face many health care challenges and having a healthy West Virginia is critical to building a world-class workforce.
Everything has changed in recent decades – the economy, technology, cultural attitudes, the demographics of the workforce, the role of women in society and the structure of the American family. It’s about time our laws caught up. We watch ‘Modern Family’ on television, but we’re still living by ‘Leave It To Beaver’ rules.
