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Want to advance skills-based hiring? Study suggests dropping degree requirements from public sector jobs

For the last ten years, skills-based hiring has been gaining momentum in the United States, especially in...

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How to redesign work for the age of AI

With so much at stake, organizations need to strike a balance between the race to innovate and...

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GOF publishes three new courses advancing open learning in Philippines manufacturing

As skills shortages grow, global policymakers are seeking innovative ways to train large workforces rapidly, especially in...

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Advance your career with free and low-cost online courses from MIT Open Learning

Learning new skills doesn’t have to break the bank. No matter which industry you work in, MIT...

Workforce Learning Ecosystems for Advanced Manufacturing

By 2028, manufacturing in the United States is predicted to have a shortage of 2.4 million workers....

How can we prepare workers for the age of generative AI? Consider the Human Skills Matrix.

A little more than a year after Open AI released Chat GPT, a consensus appears to have...

Mapping the LER ecosystem to drive adoption and collaboration in service of learners and earners

Learning employment records have potential to increase access to career pathways and make learning, career and life...

Addressing Emerging Skills Gaps in a Tight Labor Market

“While there is certainly demand for technical skills, the biggest gap is for the ‘human skills’ that...

Is AI coming for your job? Tech experts weigh in: “They don’t replace human labor”

MIT economist David Autor believes the rise of AI does indeed mean millions of jobs are going...

GOI Launches Human Skills Working Group

Hard skills get you hired, but soft skills get you fired. So goes an adage among business...

Ask an MIT Professor: why your business should build a quantum-ready workforce now

MIT Professor Will Oliver shares his insights on why organizations should be proactive about quantum computing training....

MIT’s Global Opportunity Forum joins new $5 million program to develop advanced manufacturing skills in the Philippines

As the world undergoes “The Fourth Industrial Revolution,” workforce education has often been slow to catch up....

Community college’s role in building apprenticeships

Abstract Apprenticeships can offer unique opportunities to both students and employers. Many students entering the workforce are...

Benchmarking advanced manufacturing education

Abstract American manufacturing has been a troubled sector in recent decades. Between 2000-2010, the manufacturing sector lost...

Should AI decide who gets the job?

In late November 2022, Vox reported that Amazon recently sought to replace human resources (HR) employees with...

Manufacturing a cleaner future

“Mechanical engineers can uniquely solve critical problems that require next-generation hardware technologies, and know how to bring...

Study: Automation drives income inequality

A newly published paper quantifies the extent to which automation has contributed to income inequality in the...

Workplace automation could affect income inequality even more than we thought

A new study from MIT and Boston University argues workplace automation is even more problematic than previous...

Most Education Benefits Go Unused. Why?

In March 2022 Amazon announced that it would increase funding for employee education benefits to $1.2 billion....

How to Strengthen the Workforce in an Age of Longevity

Globally, the working-age population is expected to decline by 10% by 2060, and in some countries, such...

7 management practices that benefit low-wage workers

“Increasing economic inequality is a major problem in the U.S., and the management practices that organizations choose...

The “last mile” from credentials to employment

Employers view digital credentials on a resume as a value-add, but there is no standardized approach to...

GOI Launches Asia Regional Hub at 3rd Integrated STEM Leadership Summit in Manila

The MIT Global Opportunity Initiative (GOI), a movement to transform workforce education worldwide, will launch its Asia...

Looking for a job in the lucrative semiconductor industry? Start here.

On August 9, 2022, the CHIPS and Science Act was signed into law in the United States....

Riding the green wave to a sustainable career

Green jobs are on the rise. By 2030, according to the International Labor Organization, green jobs across...

Career guidance helps people take charge of their careers

Every year, in the United States, millions of graduating students—including both high school and college graduates—prepare to...

When It Comes to Promotions, It’s About Who Knows You … Not Who You Know

Most of us spend our time learning a craft, networking with our peers, and avoiding big mistakes....

Employable skills without jumping through hoops

Over the prior decade when labor supply tightened, and throughout the greater labor squeeze of the pandemic,...

Innovating in the Company and Your Career: Steve Suarez and HSBC’s Innovation Unit

Not all learning & development activities are run by people in Human Resources. At HSBC, one of...

Printing the future: New factory tech reshapes the U.S. industrial economy

The giant machines churning out metal parts on this factory floor do not bang or clang –...

Saving Management From Our Obsession With Leadership

Evidence all around us suggests that we devalue management practices at our peril: What we’ve come to...

Job Training and Mentorship for Job Seekers from Vulnerable Communities Increases Workforce Equity

Sixty percent of Americans over age 25 have no bachelor’s degree. Without this diploma, large numbers of...

America’s seeing a historic surge in worker organizing. Here’s how to sustain it

America is in the midst of a potentially historic increase in worker organizing and collective actions. After...

The Big Blur: An Argument for Erasing the Boundaries Between High School, College, and Careers

The biggest structural barrier to increasing college completion rates and career success is the enduring and seemingly...

Reducing search barriers for job seekers

A review of 30 randomized evaluations of job search assistance programs and other innovations to reduce search...

How to become recession-proof

In July, job growth in the United States unexpectedly soared across all industries, according to the Labor...

Global Opportunity Initiative Launch Event Creates a Movement to Tackle Workforce Development Challenges

While fears about robots taking over our jobs have abated in recent years, millions of workers around...

The importance of purpose

Charles Bodwell, ILO’s Enterprise Specialist for East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific reflects upon his professional...

The Workforce Relevance of Liberal Arts Education

Liberal arts colleges and universities are currently facing substantial challenges. Small colleges are closing at unprecedented rates....

The Bias Cut

A 2021 women’s leadership study from LeanIn.org and McKinsey & Co. found that American women held 41%...

Economists weigh a new approach to unemployment insurance

For some workers, benefits arrive too late after an economic downturn to prevent household financial crises; others...

Why America’s Economy Needs More Apprenticeships

The only model that solves for skills and experience in a single, transfer-less, transition-less bound is apprenticeship....

How three companies retain workers in a competitive environment

Companies that emphasize purpose and meaningful work will find more of their employees wanting to stay put....

White House Announces over $40 Billion in American Rescue Plan Investments in Our Workforce

Since passage of the law, states, localities, community colleges, and local organizations have leveraged American Rescue Plan...

US Department of Labor awards $121M in apprenticeship building America grants to expand, diversify, modernize registered apprenticeship programs

The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of more than $121 million in Apprenticeship Building America grants...

Middle class, minus debt: Apprenticeships, certificates offer low-cost option to college

No one knows what President Joe Biden will decide when student debt repayments are set to resume on Sept. 1, but for...

Looking for work? Here’s how to write a résumé that an AI will love.

Through job-matching platforms and AI-powered games and interviews, companies are relying more and more on artificial intelligence...

Investing in a new future with Open Learning

For MIT OpenCourseWare and MITx MicroMasters learner Michael Pilgreen, risk taking and hands-on learning opened new doors...

Inside Slack’s bold bet on training formerly incarcerated people to be tech workers

The workplace messaging giant’s Next Chapter is expanding its training and hiring initiatives for people who were...

To hire and retain employees, start by revamping your systems

Hiring, retention, and talent development are no longer the sole responsibility of human resources. It’s every manager’s...

Study finds an unexpected upside to workplace impostor thoughts

People who report “workplace impostor thoughts” are often still successful, by being strong team players in the...

Graduates of apprenticeship programs share the benefits of apprenticeships and vocational training

Apprenticeships have long provided workers with the skills and training to succeed in their chosen professions. In...

The promises of summer youth employment programs: Lessons from randomized evaluations

Summer youth employment programs are an evidence-based option for improving the lives of young people in outcome...

Three common myths about work culture

Healthy corporate culture is top of mind today, as organizations consider the work of the future, the...

Five traits of the workforce of the future

Nationwide, low-wage workers are finding their voice and finding purpose, and employers ignore them at their own...

Migration Summit addresses education and workforce development in displacement

Displaced communities face complex and structural challenges in accessing education and workforce development opportunities. Read...

Forget technology: Talent is the key to modernization

A recent panel convened to talk about talent and learning at the MIT CIO Symposium. George Westerman,...

Five companies investing in upskilling the workforce

The need to upskill and reskill the workforce is more urgent than ever. Even before the Covid-19...

‘No skilled worker left behind’: Maryland drops bachelor’s degree requirements for thousands of jobs

Almost half of all workers in Maryland are STARs or “skilled through alternative...

US Manufacturing is Facing a Productivity Crisis

Labor productivity growth in US manufacturing has been declining in the past decade, reports a 2021 IndustryWeek...

Woolworths reveals huge training fund for workers and its fastest growing role at the supermarket

Australia’s largest supermarket chain, Woolworths, announces plans to invest $50 million towards re-skilling its employees over the...

MIT ReACT welcomes first Afghan cohort to its largest-yet certificate program

Through the championing support of the faculty and leadership of the MIT Afghan Working Group convened last September by...

Credential chaos: Growing “maze” of education credentials is confusing consumers and employers

As the number of well-paid jobs requiring postsecondary training grows, so too do credential offerings for employees....

To Fill Millions of Open Jobs, Many Workers Need More Than Skills

To help people land good jobs, labor experts call for a “whole person approach” to workforce training...

MIT to share in $3.2 million grant to create a statewide technician-training program in advanced manufacturing

Massachusetts receives a $3.2 million, two-year grant to create a statewide training program that bridges traditional manufacturing...

Workforce Education Project details how Covid-19 upends assumptions

A report from the MIT Open Learning Workforce Education Project concludes that a reformed workforce education system...

Digital Learning Consortium releases “Voice of the Learner” survey results

The Digital Learning Consortium (DLC) brings together many of the world’s largest firms, most innovative platform providers,...

How can marginalized girls and young women access quality learning opportunities to succeed?

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MIT to spur global education hub for displaced populations and refugees

The Refugee ACTion Hub (ReACT) will create tailored learning experiences and spark collaboration. MIT is poised to...

Op-Ed arguing that workforce upskilling is the next sustainability goal

Stats: https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/future-of-work/how-will-automation-affect-jobs-skills-and-wages...

Bringing mothers back into the workforce

“Efforts to introduce algorithms to determine salary, for example, publishing all salaries and other mechanisms designed to...

60-Year Career

Recent research from the Stanford Center on Longevity (SCL) predicts that many of today’s children can expect...

How sectoral employment training can advance economic mobility for workers who face barriers to employment

J-PAL North America publication highlights the promise of sectoral employment programs in combating US wage inequality. For...

J-WEL announces Global Opportunities Initiative webinar series

New webinar series explores facets of a rapidly evolving labor market To many in the global workforce,...