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Talent is one of our country’s most important assets—yet our current methods for discovering and cultivating talent are outdated—built for another time and a different economy.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.
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.
Solving challenges around learning and employment records with SkillsFWD
More than 70 million adults in the United States are skilled through community college, workforce training, bootcamps, certificate programs, military service or on-the-job learning, rather than through a bachelor’s degree. Learning and employment records (LERs) could play a critical role in advancing skills-based hiring practices and ensuring they are implemented equitably.
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Scaling Up Skills-Based Employment Practices for American Businesses
Business Roundtable, SHRM, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are joining together to scale up skills-based employment practices for American businesses.
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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There is a lost opportunity — for workers and employers alike — when learners drop out of their degree or skills credential programs. A new company has an innovative insurance product aimed at incentivizing them to complete their studies.
As the gap between talent and employer needs increased in one of the fastest growing cities in Texas, greater:SATX recognized the need for investment in upskilling San Antonians.
A group of 10 leading stakeholders in education, workforce development and government announced today the launch of an interactive LER Ecosystem Map, designed to help individuals access career opportunities and help employers hire and promote talent based on skills and experience.
The historic transformation from industrial economies to technology-enabled, knowledge-based economies is disrupting the skills needs of employers.
How Sacramento grows its future workforce from K-12 through post-secondary education.
For the past nine years, the U.S. Chamber Foundation has sought to tackle the all-too-common challenge of successfully preparing talent for the work of today and tomorrow and ensure their skills align to employers’ needs. To achieve the type of behavior and systems change needed, we believed the approach had to be a significant departure from traditional workforce development efforts.
A new initiative offers loans — repayable later by some employers — to students who might otherwise have difficulty overcoming traditional credit thresholds.
In a stressful economic climate, business luminaries share how they are weathering the storm to come out stronger.
Employers facing a severe shortage of customer service representatives formed a partnership to encourage more workers to train and refill the talent pipeline.
The Arvada Chamber recognized the widening talent gap in their community and built a coalition of employers to address significant workforce needs.