Workforce
Talent is one of our country’s most important assets—yet our current methods for discovering and cultivating talent are outdated—built for another time and a different economy. For America to grow and prosper, we need new systems fit for our modern economy.
Our shared economic success as a nation will depend on our ability to source, develop, and deploy our workforce successfully, but for too many the labor market is broken, inaccessible, or non-existent.— Jason Tyszko, U.S. Chamber Foundation Senior Vice President
A Public-Private Financing Approach for Upskilling and Reskilling in a Dynamic Economy
Stories of Education and Workforce in Action
Across our nation’s talent pipeline, we explore the stories of employers investing in the workforce of today and tomorrow to close the skills gap.
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Rating States’ Work on Post-College Outcomes
With the release of Strada Education Foundation's State Opportunity Index, U.S. Chamber Foundation Vice President Jaimie Francis weighs in on the need for highly developed systems for career coaching, work-based learning, and alignment with employer interests.
Programs
The challenge of our time is creating a workforce system that develops the talent needed for the jobs of today and tomorrow. At the U.S. Chamber Foundation, we address this challenge through our commitment to promoting innovative workforce development solutions. We achieve this by building employer-led, agile workforce development systems and programs.
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As the labor market tightens and the pace of technological change continues to accelerate, it’s becoming an increasingly common theme that the traditional “one-and-done” model of education is over. As a result, employers, policymakers, and analysts alike are increasingly calling for new approaches to lifelong learning that will help upskill and re-skill individuals to compete and succeed in a fast-changing economy. In this shifting landscape education and workforce organizations are joining forces to experiment with new models with the potential to create pathways to opportunity and economic mobility.
With nearly 8,000 open positions, Arizona faces a growing shortage of cybersecurity professionals. In order to address this growing shortage, businesses must accept a stronger role engaging with education and training providers to build the region’s talent pipeline. Three years ago, the Greater Phoenix Chamber Foundation launched a Cybersecurity Workforce Collaborative comprised of employers who have cybersecurity as a key function of their business.
This past spring, members of the Information Technology Alliance (ITA) visited technology workforce development nonprofit i.c.stars prior to the start of their Chicago conference. As part of a Solve-A-Thon activity, designed and led by i.c.stars graduates, the group ended up discussing an unusual topic in technology: re-entry hiring.
In the United States, 44 million adults lack basic educational and workforce readiness skills, and 28 million do not have the basic digital skills needed for our ever-growing. digitally-enhanced workforce. For these people, getting on track for a job that comes with a livable wage starts with adult education.
For many looking to join the American workforce today, the chance to start working towards “the magic number of greatness” is out there, it’s just a matter of finding that opportunity.
To inspire other companies to create STEM career pathways for young girls, Abbott has implemented a successful high school STEM internship program and published the key to it, a detailed blueprint, so any company in any STEM industry can recreate the model.
We are in an economy that competes on talent. The business community succeeds or fails based on its ability to find and develop a consistent and reliable pipeline of high-quality talent. Thus the business community is very interested in what is taught in our nation’s postsecondary institutions. Rather than an intrusion on postsecondary education’s mission, it is a realization that what postsecondary education does and does not do has a real impact on the success of the business community and the competitiveness of the United States.
The Hospital Workforce Collaborative used the Talent Pipeline Management® (TPM) framework to identify and work with education providers to create an efficient, sustainable model for hiring, upskilling, and retaining nurses in six specialty practice areas critical to the healthcare business community in Arizona.
